Scene version history
Every scene keeps its own trail of snapshots. Rewrite a scene into a corner, and an hour-ago version is two clicks away. It works the same in the web app and Pendraic Desktop.
When snapshots happen
- Automatically. While you write, Pendraic snapshots the scene about every 15 minutes. Not every keystroke, and never when nothing changed.
- Manually.The Snapshot button in the Activity panel saves the current state with an optional label, for the “about to try something drastic” moments.
- Before every restore. Restoring an old version first snapshots the current one, so a restore is always undoable.
Each scene keeps its most recent 50 snapshots.
Comparing and restoring
Scene history lives at the top of the Activity panel in the editor. Click a snapshot to see a word-level comparison with the current scene: struck text is what the snapshot has that the current text lost, highlighted text is what's new since. Restore writes the snapshot back through the normal save path, and your word counts update as if you'd typed it.
How this relates to backups
Scene history is the scalpel: one scene, fine-grained, always at hand. Desktop backups are the vault: the entire library, restorable to a point in time. On the web app your work is also protected by the platform's own storage; on desktop, see the Backups page for the full story.