Drafts and versions, explained
A manuscript has a main draft and can have alternate drafts. Each draft keeps its own version history.
Every story can take another direction. Drafts let you try one without losing the one you started.
Grimwick How it fits together
| Level | What it is |
|---|---|
| Project | The film. It holds Story, Script, Characters, Whiteboards and Production. |
| Manuscript | The Story or the Script of a project. |
| Draft | One line of development of a manuscript. Every manuscript has a Main draft, and can have alternate drafts. |
| Version | A moment in a draft’s history: a named version you saved, or an automatic checkpoint. |
Drafts
The Main draft is the manuscript as it stands. An alternate draft starts as a copy of a draft at that moment, and then goes its own way: a different ending, a version with a character cut, a rewrite for a producer’s note. Writing in one draft never changes another.
The draft you are in is shown in the writing header: the branch icon and its name, such as Main draft.
Versions
Each draft has its own version history, opened from the clock beside the draft. It lists the current manuscript, the versions you named and the checkpoints Scriptr saved automatically. You can preview any of them and restore one safely.
What drafts don’t do
Drafts don’t merge themselves. Scriptr never combines two drafts automatically. When you want something from one draft in another, you compare them and choose what to bring across. See Comparing drafts and applying changes.
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