Plot point properties

The Plot point properties view opens in the right pane when you select a plot point in the tree.

Title and description

Title and description are displayed in an editable “index card”.

The editing of The editing of the title can be completed by pressing the Enter key. Changes to the description are applied when the mouse is clicked anywhere outside the text input field.

Assigned section

You can connect the plot point to a section in the book. The label below “Section” displays the section title.

Assign section: When clicking on the Assign section button, the “Pick mode” is activated, and the cursor changes to a “plus” shape. By clicking on a section, this section will be assigned to the plot point.

Hint

You can exit the “Pick mode” without selecting a section by clicking on the highlighted status bar, or by pressing the Esc key.
Clear assignment: If a section is assigned to the plot point, you can disconnect it by clicking on the Clear assignment button.
Go to section: When clicking on the Go to section button, the selected section is opened and its properties are displayed.

Hint

You can go back to the initially selected plot point with .

Links

Expand or collapse this frame by clicking on the label.

This is a list for image and research document links.

Although novelibre holds some character/location/item data, it is not the right application for extensive world building. For this, you may want to use more powerful software, like Zim Desktop Wiki. In this case, novelibre allows you to create links to the text files that will take you quickly to the right places in the wiki.

Or you have collected some images that could inspire you when writing. Then simply create links to these images to open them with your system’s standard image viewer.

Tip

If you have collected several images for a character in a folder that your standard image viewer can browse through, a single link to any image file is sufficient.

The links are displayed in a list in the order they are entered.

Add Link

When clicking on Add , a file selection dialog opens. The selected file will be added to the link list.

Hint

By default, the dialog shows image files. For other file types, change the selector in the lower right corner.

Remove Link

When clicking on Remove or pressing the Del key, the selected link is removed from the list.

Open Link

When double-clicking on a link, or clicking on Goto , the link is opened with the standard application for the link’s file type.

Hint

If you want to open certain linked files with another application than the standard application, you can provide a novelibre “launcher” setting. For this, just create a text file named launchers.ini in the .novx/config directory (where all configuration files are stored). Here you can assign applications to the file extensions.

Zim desktop wiki pages are a special case. For this, the Zim program is assigned to the .zim extension.

This example shows a setting that makes novelibre open text files with the Zim Desktop Wiki application instead of the standard text editor:

[SETTINGS]
.zim = C:/Program Files (x86)/Zim Desktop Wiki/zim.exe

“Sticky note”

The yellow text area is for notes. Changes are applied when the mouse is clicked anywhere outside the text input field.

When the “sticky note” of a plot point contains text, “N” is displayed in the tree view as a reminder. If the branch of a plot line with plot points containing notes is collapsed, the “N” is displayed in the plot line row.

Note

The “sticky notes” are only for working with novelibre. They are not meant to be exported into a document.