A ticket on my phone scrolled the page behind
Swiping in a ticket on a phone could scroll the page underneath instead. Now the page holds still while a ticket is open, and the ticket opens at its full height in one smooth step.
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A deleted card left an endless loading box
A card thrown away could leave a box on the page that kept loading forever. Now deleting a card takes it off the pages at once, and if a card is gone, its place says so in one quiet line.
My Anchor Beat marks slipped when I edited
A mark could drift off its line, or go missing, after a cut, an Undo, a lift or a new Draft. Now your marks follow their lines wherever the pages change, and a mark that did not save is sent again until it does.
Feedback pages showed the wrong day
A comment written late on a Friday could read as Saturday. Now the feedback pages tell days and times in Pacific time.
One Anchor Beat showed two marks
A script could end up with two marks for the same Anchor Beat, such as two End of Act Two. Now every way of marking a beat follows one set of rules, so each of the seven is marked once.
Every open window shows the same Anchor Beats
With a project open in two windows, or with a collaborator, one window could show older marks than another. Now every window works from the same reading, and a window left on old pages asks you to reload before it changes anything.
New card took seconds and made three cards
Pressing New card could do nothing for several seconds, so a second and third press made extra cards. Now the card appears and opens the moment you press, and it saves behind you.
The Advisor took its own words as mine
A link between two characters could be kept as something you said, when it was really the Advisor's own reading. Now only your own words count as what was said in the room.
My export was named with words I never chose
An exported file could carry a label the studio made up instead of the name you gave your Draft. Now an export is named the way you named it, and never with words of the studio's own.
Anchor Beats lagged behind a new Analysis
After a Draft's Analysis was made again, the Anchor Beats in the margin could stay where the old reading had them. Now your Working Pages are read again and the margin follows the new Analysis.
Starting a new project with the Advisor jumped around
Choosing Ask the Advisor on a new project made the panels shuffle left and right. Now Messages slides in from the right and nothing else moves.
Long project names ran off the phone screen
A long project name could push the top row past the edge of a phone. Now the row always fits, and a name too long to show fades out at its right edge, on the phone and the computer.
An answered offer lost its Anchor Beat's color
Once you answered an Advisor offer, its Anchor Beat's color faded, so the Midpoint's red read as salmon. Now the beat keeps its true color.
A project you keep SOLO stays yours
A writer typed SOLO to keep a project to themselves, then still saw the founders’ faces on it, and the Advisor told them the founders could open it. Now a SOLO project shows no founders’ faces, the Advisor says it is SOLO and that the founders won’t step in until you tag them, and the next project you bring in starts SOLO too.
Asking the Advisor to pass something along was dropped
Asking the Advisor to pass something to the team could end in "The Advisor stepped away." Now your request is always sent, and one plain sentence says where it went.
Scrolling a Draft's outline moved a scene in my Working Pages
A thumb scrolling an older Draft's outline on a phone quietly moved a scene in the current pages. A Draft's outline now moves nothing, and on touch a drag waits for a deliberate hold.
The studio stopped while drawing the page
On an iPhone the studio once stopped with a blank page and no way forward. That cause is fixed, and if anything ever breaks while a page is drawn, the studio now says so in plain words with a Reload button.
The Advisor offered new ideas when I only asked a question
A writer asked to talk about her ending and got a list of other endings back. That missed the point. Now the Advisor starts from what is already on your pages and helps you find your own way forward.
My Final Draft export lost its page numbers and title page
The file that came back to Final Draft had no page numbers and a plain title page instead of mine. Now the export carries page numbers, my own title page, my settings and my character lists, and it goes back into my own Final Draft file, named the way I name my files.
The Advisor stepped away instead of answering
A writer asked why a card stood where it did and was told the Advisor had stepped away, twice. The answer was there and got thrown out by mistake. It now comes through.
A long answer from the Advisor never arrived
When the Advisor looked something up for a while, the answer could be cut off and never show. Now a long answer keeps arriving, and if the connection drops the Advisor stays shown as working until the answer comes.
A treatment came in broken into short lines
A treatment or outline copied out of a PDF arrived with a hard break at every printed line, or was turned away for not looking like a screenplay. Now prose comes in as prose, joined back into its paragraphs.
Sharing my first project did not go through
I wrote my first project and pressed Share to invite two people, and nothing happened for them. Sharing now works from any project you own, including the first one the studio made for you.
The studio sometimes hung on its loading screen
With a lot of comments on a script, the studio was slow to draw, and on a busy afternoon it could sit on its loading screen. It now draws about three times sooner, and a phone with a weak signal no longer waits ten seconds.
I typed my code and nothing happened
I opened my invitation, typed the six digits and pressed Enter, and the screen did not move. The sign in screen now notices when the studio has been updated since it was opened, refreshes itself and says why. Enter works too.
My italics showed up as asterisks
Words I had italicized in Final Draft arrived on my pages wrapped in asterisks, hundreds of them. Now italics, bold and underline come in as emphasis, and the scripts that had already arrived were repaired.
A man's Character card said HER TRUTH
Some row labels on a Character card guessed a gender, and guessed wrong. The labels now carry the person's first name instead, so nobody is misgendered by the card.
A long message vanished when I sent it
I typed a long message for thirty minutes, pressed send, saw an error and lost every word. My page had been open while the studio was updated. Now what you type is kept from the first keystroke, a failed send puts your words back in the field, and a page from before an update refreshes itself and sends them for you.
The Advisor said it had marked the Midpoint, and nothing was marked
A writer was told her Midpoint was in place and kept writing on that belief for over an hour. It was not there. The Advisor can no longer say it did something unless it really did.
My first screen showed a third of a blank page
My first visit opened on a sliver of a blank page and nothing else, with no way in shown. The first screen now shows the full page and how to begin.
A notice named someone else's project
Ten seconds into her first session, a writer was told that two other writers' projects were ready to open. Ready notices now go only to people who have a stake in that project.
My own words were marked as borrowed
Copying a paragraph from my own script and pasting it back marked it as borrowed, as if someone else wrote it. Now your own work pastes in as yours, and words from a collaborator name who wrote them.
I couldn't type while the Advisor was answering
Clicking into the message box during a reply did nothing, so the first letter was lost and had to be typed again. The box now takes your words at any time.
A small edit lost four Anchor Beats
A writer brought in his next draft after fixing two typos and a comma. Four of his seven Anchor Beats were reported missing, though every line was still there. Small edits no longer cost a beat.
My emailed reply brought my signature and legal notice along
I answered by email with two words, and Messages showed my business card and a long confidentiality notice with them. A reply from a phone arrived with Sent from my iPhone on the end. A reply now arrives as just the words you wrote.
Opening a project took up to 25 seconds
Clicking a project could leave you waiting 25 seconds before the pages appeared. The wait came from work the studio did and then forgot to finish. Opening a project now takes about a second.
The studio froze when two of us typed at once
Typing slowed to a crawl and hung, but only when someone else was writing in the same script. Now two people can type side by side without the page stalling.