Finding your way around YOW

Finding your way around YOW

YOW separates your overall Library, each project’s planning rooms, and its focused writing workspace so you can move between them without losing your place.

Open a project

  1. Sign in to reach the Library.
  2. Select a project card, or select Open Project on the featured project.
  3. YOW opens the project Overview.

Move between project rooms

  1. Use the room bar to choose Overview, Planning, Characters, Atlas, Lore, Party or AI Tools.
  2. If a room contains several sections, use its section tabs—for example Characters, Relationship Map, Family Tree and Factions.
  3. Select the manuscript tab—labelled for the project type—to enter the writing workspace.

Return to the Library or project

  • From a planning room, use the YOW/project navigation at the top of the workspace to return to the Library.
  • From the manuscript workspace, select Project in the top bar to return to the project.
  • Browser back and forward navigation also preserve supported project and scene URLs.

Open settings, help or account controls

  • Select Project Settings in the project header for project details, rooms, exports, backups, merging and categories.
  • Open the account menu in the top-right corner for Account Settings, Help & Contact, About, Legal and Sign Out.

Library, project and manuscript

The Library is the home for all projects and series. It provides project status, grouping, the focus project, import and creation controls.

The project Overview summarises one project’s writing, structure and worldbuilding. Project rooms hold connected records such as characters, locations, lore, ideas and history.

The manuscript workspace is designed for sustained writing. Its own rail, editor modes, inspector, reference catalogue, search and AI panel remain separate from the planning-room navigation.

Some rooms may be absent because they are hidden in Project Settings. The Party room appears only for D&D and Tabletop Campaign projects. AI Tools is locked on Free accounts.

On narrow screens, navigation may collapse into compact tabs or menus. Map editing is view-only on phones, although maps remain viewable and linked Locations can still be opened.

  • Customising a project’s rooms and tools
  • Building your manuscript structure
  • Why a project or feature is read-only