How Storywriting makes sure you never lose your writing
Losing a chapter is every writer’s nightmare. Storywriting is built so that a closed tab, a dropped connection or a bad edit never costs you your work. Here is every layer of protection, from the most automatic to the most hands-on.
1. Everything saves as you type
There is no Save button to forget. Your story is saved a moment after you stop typing, and the toolbar shows “Saved” when it’s done. Leaving the page, switching to another section or closing the tab saves what you just wrote first.
2. A backup in your browser if the connection drops
Every change is also kept in your own browser until the server confirms it has saved it. If your internet cuts out or the laptop goes to sleep mid-sentence, the text is still there the next time you open the story, and it is saved as soon as you’re back online.
If you wrote in two browsers and the newer text was saved from the other one, Storywriting keeps both: the newer text stays, and the copy from this browser is filed in the version history instead of overwriting anything.
3. Version history
While you write, Storywriting quietly keeps versions of your story and your screenplay: a new one every couple of minutes of writing, when you leave, and before big changes such as Fix grammar or restoring an older version. You can:
- open any version and see exactly what changed, highlighted;
- restore it (with an Undo if you change your mind);
- give a version a name, such as “Before the big rewrite”, so it’s easy to find;
- make a copy of an old version as a new draft, without touching the current one.
Every version from the last 30 days is kept. Older ones are thinned out to one per day, and versions you have named are kept for good. Timelines, cloud maps, characters and locations have their own version history too.
4. A bin for anything you delete
Deleting a draft, a character, a timeline event or even a whole project doesn’t erase it straight away. It goes to the Bin, where you can see what it was, preview it and bring it back. Things stay in the Bin for 90 days before they are removed for good.
5. Shared projects can’t overwrite each other
When you write with other people, one person writes in a given text at a time, and everyone else sees it update live. If two saves ever collide, the losing copy isn’t thrown away: it’s kept in the version history.
6. A copy in your own Google Drive
Turn on Google Docs sync in Settings and the main draft of every story and screenplay is mirrored into a Google Doc in a “Storywriting” folder in your own Drive. It’s a second, independent copy that you own, outside Storywriting entirely.
7. Export whenever you want
Any story or screenplay can be exported as a PDF, a Word file or plain text, and timelines as a PDF, Word file or text, at any time and as often as you like. Your writing is never locked in.
Good habit: before a big rewrite, open Version history and name the current version. It takes five seconds and gives you a clear point to come back to.
Curious about who can see your work? Read Is my writing private?
