Architect view
A board view of your manuscript, chapters as columns, scenes as cards. Drag-and-drop to restructure without opening the prose. Useful when you're planning, when you need to see the whole shape, and when you're considering a major reorder.
Switching modes
The workspace header has a Compose / Architect tab pair. Compose is the prose editing surface (three columns: outline, editor, dock). Architect is the board (one full-bleed view). Both views read the same manuscript tree, so a reorder in one is reflected in the other on the next render.
Drag-and-drop
- Scene → scene: drop a scene onto another scene in the same chapter to reorder; drop into another chapter's column to move it across.
- Chapter → chapter: drag the chapter header to reorder chapters.
- Act → act: in Heavy or Standard preset, acts have their own column lanes. Drag to reorder.
Architect vs. Compose
Architect is for shape work. Compose is for prose work. If you find yourself reordering a lot in Compose, you're probably ready for a structural pass, switch to Architect, take a top-down view, then return to Compose for prose.

