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§ The Gap
Your world is alive in your head, and scattered across your tools.
Characters with histories. Places with textures. Timelines that fold and diverge. They used to live in different tabs, different apps, different notebooks. Now they share one canvas, and you can see how they connect.
Your next book is not stuck. It's just tied up.
— Unbind the writer. Unbind the world.
Your story has been holding its breath.
Time to let it out.
§ The Answer
Everything you need, from the first scattered idea to the last published page.
Consider this the table of contents.
01 / 07 The Connected Canvas
See your world before you write it.
Late in the draft, you reach for a detail, what the harbor smelled like the night she arrived, and it is gone. You search three apps and lose an hour. The canvas is where that stops. Put a character down. Put a place beside her. Draw what they are to each other. The world holds its shape while you write into it, and tomorrow it is exactly where you left it.
The book remembers, so you do not have to.
Canvas — Aelin's Harbor
Aelin Vance
Saltwhistle Harbor
The Arrival
Ch. 1 — Arrival
02 / 07 Every View, One Source of Truth
One world. Every angle.
You think spatially on Sunday, in chapters on Monday, in dates on Tuesday, in arcs on Wednesday. Most weeks, that means four different files quietly drifting out of sync. Here, the same world holds still while you walk around it. Open the manuscript and the cards rearrange into chapters. Open the timeline and they line up by date.
Nothing is copied. Nothing forks.
Ch. 1 — Arrival
Aelin Vance
Harbor
Chapter One — Arrival
236 ◊ Saltwhistle
The harbor was holding its breath when Aelin Vance stepped down from the gangplank, salt cracking under her boots.
She had not expected to recognize the lamp at the lighthouse — and yet there it was, the same crooked seam in the glass, the same bruised glow.
Eight years. Long enough for a town to forget. Not, she suspected, long enough for it to forgive.
Mon · 09:14 · about Aelin
The brother's name
Maybe Cael, after the grandfather. Check the dates against the harbor fire.
Tue · 22:41
Saltwhistle weather
Storm rolls in from the north. Lighthouse goes dark before the Pact, not after.
Wed · 06:50 · about Aelin
Opening line draft
"She had not expected to recognize the harbor — and yet."
Aelin
Cael
Harbor
Ch. 1
Arrival
First sight
Ch. 2
The Storm
Warning
Ch. 3
The Pact
Reveal
Vault
Salt Vault The Keep Lighthouse
Year One
03 / 07 Lore-Aware Writing
The world is in the page.
You are mid-sentence and you need her brother's name. You alt-tab. The wiki loads. The browser eats your cursor. By the time you are back, the sentence has gone cold. Here, you type @ and her brother surfaces in the line itself: the room beside it, the year she met him, all a glance away, none of it asking you to leave the prose.
You never leave the sentence.
Chapter Three — The Pact
She never thought she'd see Aelin again, much less in Saltwhistle Harbor, the year after her brother @Marek
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Marek Vance
Aelin's elder brother · vintner
Saltwhistle Ch. 1 14 mentions
Other matches
Marek Vance char
Mira Brennan char
Marsh of Mire place
04 / 07 Editing & Revision Workflow
Drafts that remember every decision.
You rewrote the opening. Then you rewrote it again. Then you wished you had the first one back. Every version of every chapter is kept by name, and the differences between them are visible at a glance: what you cut, what you saved, what you tried before you knew better.
Revision stops being a wager.
Ch. 1 — Arrival · history
v3 → v7 · inline
The harbor was quiet that night holding its breath, and Aelin walked slowly without hurrying toward the lamp — its glass cracked, its light still kind.
She did not call her brother's name. Not yet. She had practiced not calling it for eight years; one more night was nothing.
05 / 07 Writer's Compass
See yourself finishing.
Somewhere past the third chapter, the draft goes quiet. Not abandoned, you tell yourself. Resting. The Compass keeps a gentle ledger of your writing life: the words you added on Tuesday, the chapter that has waited a month, the pace you actually keep rather than the one you promised yourself. You watch the finish line move closer, week by honest week.
Books are written on more days than not.
Compass — Saltwhistle
66%
Drafting
~80,000 words. At your current pace, the finish line is in sight — about ten weeks out.
MonTueWedThuFriSatToday
Target Apr 15 10 weeks out
Words / Day 730 Steady, sustainable pace
Tomorrow Thirty minutes. The harbor scene needs an exit.
06 / 07 All the way to the printer
From idea to published book.
The draft is done. Now begins the part nobody warned you about: margins and bleed and ISBNs, and a different file format for every store. The book you have been writing already knows it is going to be a book. It paginates itself the way printers expect. It checks the small things that get covers rejected, before you upload.
The last mile stops being a wall.
Pipeline — Saltwhistle
Print layout eBook layout
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Page Layout
Trim Size
5.5" × 8.5"
02
Typography
Heading Font
Playfair Display (theme default)
Font Size 11pt
07 / 07 Yours, Forever
Works without us.
You have lost work to a vendor before. Maybe a service shut down. Maybe a subscription lapsed and the lock came down. Maybe the internet blinked at the wrong moment. Here, the book lives on your machine first. Editing on a flight, on a train, in a cabin with one bar of signal: same book, no warning bar, no anxious reload.
Your world belongs to you, regardless of our weather.
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"Works without us."
§ Whoever You Are
Built for the long work, whatever form it takes.
Different shapes of story, the same connected workshop.
- The Novelist
Forty chapters, nine viewpoints, one thread you must not drop.
- The Memoirist
A life never happens in order. The telling doesn't have to either.
- The Poet
A manuscript of moments, and the motifs that run beneath them.
- The Screenwriter
Every beat, every scene, and who knows what in which act.
- The Worldbuilder & GM
Six notebooks of lore, finally in the same room.
- The Fan-fic Writer
A canon of your own, kept straight across a hundred chapters.
§ The Promises
What we promise, in writing.
The voice is yours.
Unbind never writes your sentences. It holds your world steady while you find the words.
Your story stays yours.
Private by default. Never training data. Export the whole manuscript anytime, to files that open anywhere.
It works without us.
Your book lives on your machine first and syncs when you're online. If we vanished tomorrow, your files would not.
It started with my daughter.
Why Unbind exists, what it will never do, and the person accountable for both. When something feels wrong, write me. I read every note.
Meet the builder →The rest is written down. Read the manifesto →
§ Join the Wait List
The world needs to know your next story.
We'll write when there's something worth saying.
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§ FAQ
Your questions, answered.
What is Unbind?
Unbind is a visual canvas for long-form writers — novelists, memoirists, essayists, screenwriters, poets, and worldbuilders. Plan characters, locations, events, chapters, and lore as connected elements on an infinite canvas, then export the result as a manuscript ready for publishing.
Who is Unbind for?
Long-form authors — novelists, memoirists, essayists, screenwriters, poets, and worldbuilders — who need to keep track of how characters, places, events, and ideas connect across a long project. If you have written a 60,000-word draft and lost track of a thread, Unbind is for you.
Will Unbind write my book for me?
No. Unbind builds for the writer, not in place of them. What it helps with is the work of remembering: checking continuity across chapters, surfacing lost notes, finding the thread you misplaced. It never writes the page for you. The voice is yours. See the manifesto at unbind.page/manifesto .
Is Unbind available today?
Unbind is in early access in 2026 and admitting authors in small cohorts. Join the waitlist at unbind.page/join — confirmed referrals move you up the line.
How much does Unbind cost?
Unbind has a free tier that covers personal worldbuilding, and paid tiers for authors who need more projects, more storage, or the assisted features. See unbind.page/pricing for current plans and prices.
What platforms does Unbind run on?
Unbind runs in any modern web browser today, with desktop apps for macOS and Windows. Native apps for iPhone and iPad are on the roadmap for 2026; until they ship, the web canvas works on tablets and phones in the browser.
Does Unbind work offline?
Yes. Unbind is offline-first — your work lives locally and syncs to the cloud when you are online. Lose Wi-Fi mid-sentence and nothing is lost. The desktop app stores your data encrypted on disk using your operating system's keychain.
Can I import a manuscript from Scrivener, Notion, or Obsidian?
Yes. Unbind has a built-in importer that takes a long manuscript in Word (.docx), EPUB, or Markdown, detects chapter breaks, lets you preview and adjust the splits, and lands every chapter on your canvas as an element. Scrivener, Notion, Obsidian, and Google Docs all export to one of those formats.
Can I collaborate with an editor or co-author?
Not yet. Unbind today is a single-author workspace; live co-authoring and shared editing are on the roadmap. You can export drafts to PDF or EPUB to share with editors and beta readers in the meantime.
How is Unbind different from Scrivener or World Anvil?
Unbind holds the world and the manuscript on one connected canvas. Scrivener drafts well but has no visual graph; World Anvil and Campfire model worlds but do not compile to a print-ready book. Unbind unifies the visual canvas, author-specific entity types, relationship mapping, and manuscript export in a single offline-first product.
Is my work private?
Yes. Your projects are private by default, served over TLS, and never sold or shared. The desktop app encrypts local data using your operating system's keychain.
Can I export my book?
Yes. Unbind exports complete manuscripts to PDF and EPUB with print-ready presets for KDP and IngramSpark, plus per-element exports for individual characters, locations, events, chapters, and lore. Your project data is portable.