News

Updates and Features Planned For Future Releases

A few details on what the Novel Goggles team is currently working on, what we have planned for the future and what has been added recently

You can suggest additional features by sending us an e-mail or from within the Novel Goggles App (in the Settings Menu)

In Progress

  1. Goal Tracking and Achievements Updates

    We're working on better achievement tracking for word counts and writing time, as well as achievement streaks, updates and reminders. We have plans to further gamify the creation of a writing habit using mascots and other fun challenges.

  2. Notifications, reminders, automated e-mails

    We're working on integrating automated notification e-mails and reminders to remind you of your writing goals, your recent activity and changes in Novel Goggles.

  3. Scene content history

    Snapshots of the manuscript content for each scene are already created and stored. We will provide tools to make these snapshots available, similarly to the Manuscript Snapshots already available.

  4. Research area/research notes

    We're working on adding research areas and research notes to Novel Goggles, to help you keep track of relevant research and other details.

  5. Prelude/Prologue sections for Manuscripts

    In addition to the existing Act, Sequence, Chapter and Scene story structure elements, we are adding Prelude and Prologue structure elements as well.

Some Future Plans

  1. Progressive Web App release on various app stores

    Once we've ironed out a few wrinkles with the Novel Goggles service workers, we intend to release PWA versions of Novel Goggles on various app stores.

  2. Backup Importing

    The data backups that you export from Novel Goggles cannot currently be re-imported into Novel Goggles. This functionality will be added in a future release of Novel Goggles.

  3. Spell-checking and Dictionary Tools

    While your browser probably already does spell-checking and suggestions for you, we plan on integrating some tools to give you more control over how and when suggestions are made.

  4. Offline Mode

    While your uploaded content is already stored in local browser storage as well as being synchronised with our remote servers, full offline functionality will allow you to edit local content and synchronise with the remote servers when you have access to the internet again.

  5. Manuscript Exporting & Publishing Functionality

    Currently, Novel Goggles only provides printing functionality for your Manuscript, with fixed formatting rules. While this does allow you to use Print-to-PDF functionality to export your manuscript to PDF, we do plan on adding additional formatting and exporting options to support e-book creation and preparation for publishing your manuscripts.

  6. Project Planning

    We plan to add some project planning functionality to Novel Goggles, where you will be able to set targets and deadlines, and monitor your progress as you work on your various creative ideas.

  7. Data Import from other formats

    We plan on adding tools to assist with importing your existing data from other formats. Let us know what you would like us to support using the Suggest A Feature button in the Novel Goggles App.

  8. Collaboration with other users

    We envision Novel Goggles providing a place where you can ask other users to help you beta-read or edit your manuscripts. The Scene-Specific Notes sections for Scenes, Characters and Locations will provide space for their feedback and the Pace, Tension and Climax progression tools already available will become even more useful with input from other users.

Completed Recently

  1. Novel Goggles version 1.1.23-beta and 1.1.24-beta

    Performance Optimisations for Seemless context switching and reduced data usage

    The Novel Goggles Team are continuously working to improve the user experience. One of our focuses during the beta period and initial wider public release will be on page rendering and data synchronisation performance, aiming to minimise distracting loading screens and waiting times.

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  2. Novel Goggles version 1.1.23-beta and 1.1.24-beta

    Mobile Device Optimisation & general responsiveness

    Novel Goggles has been developed with a focus on providing abundant contextual data for each Scene, Character and Location. While some functionality is usable on smaller devices such as phones and tablets, full feature access will require additional improvements and updates to content layout and responsiveness.