Getting Around

A project holds a lot: a manuscript, a cast of characters, boards, timelines, maps and notes. Scriptorium keeps them all reachable without burying the page you are actually writing.

There is also a guided tour of all of this in the app — open Settings, go to Help and pick Getting around under Guides.

Tabs

The strip along the title bar works like a code editor’s. Each tab remembers the view it is on and its split configuration, so one tab can be split while the next is a single pane.

Action	How
New tab	the + button in the title bar
Open a page in a new tab	`Ctrl` + click it, or middle-click it
Open a page to the side	`Ctrl` + `Alt` + click it (`Ctrl` + `Option` on macOS)
Close a tab	middle-click it, or its ✕
Reorder	drag it along the strip
Split / unsplit	the split button on the tab, or `Mod`+`Shift`+`S`
Back	hover a tab — its icon becomes a back arrow — or `Mod`+`Alt`+`←`

Mod is ⌘ Cmd on macOS and Ctrl on Windows/Linux.

Back is per tab. Each tab remembers its own trail, so going back in one tab never drags you into what you were doing in another.

Your tabs are saved with the project. Close Scriptorium with six views open and six views are waiting when you come back — with their splits intact, not just the one you had in front.

Opening pages

A page opens the same way wherever you find it — in the sidebar, as a link inside a document, in search, on the Library, in a relationship, on a card:

Gesture	Opens the page
Click	here — in split view, in the pane you are working in
`Ctrl` + click, or middle-click	in a new tab — or brings forward the tab it is already open in
`Ctrl` + `Alt` + click	to the side — in the other pane, splitting the tab if it isn’t already

On macOS, Alt is Option. Inside a document and in search, ⌘ Cmd works in place of Ctrl too; in the sidebar it stays the selection key. In search, the same modifiers work with Enter.

Right-click a sidebar item or a page link for Open in new tab and Open to the side, if you would rather not remember the keys. In the project database, where Ctrl + click selects rows, both are in the menu under each row’s icon.

The two sidebars

On the left: your project

The first two rows are Home (back to your projects) and Library — this project’s front page, with its word counts, activity calendar, goals and loose ends in one view.

Below them, everything in the project, as a tree. Press Mod+Shift+B to show or hide it — plain Mod+B is bold in the editor and stays that way.

Click to open, or to fold a folder
Shift + click to select a range, Alt/Option + click to add or remove one item
Right-click for the context menu, drag to move things
Drag the divider to resize it — or focus it and use ← / →, and double-click to reset

On the right: the current page

Press Mod+J, or use the toolbar button. The icons down its outer edge switch between everything Scriptorium knows about the page you are on:

Details — properties, links and relationships
Goals — the target for this manuscript, and how today is going
Statistics — size, provenance and habits
Version history — every saved version
Format manuscript — the typography rules for this document
Read aloud and the AI assistant, when you have them set up

The panel pushes your page aside rather than covering it, and it drills: open a character from a manuscript’s Details and the panel goes one level deeper, with a back chevron to return — to exactly the tab you left it on.

Notes, entities, map pins and timelines each offer their own set of icons here. The panel follows whatever you are looking at.

Search

Press Mod+Shift+F, or click the magnifier in the title bar.

It searches names and content across every view in the project — manuscripts, notes, entities, tables — so it finds the scene you can only remember a line from.

Everything at once

The full list of chords and gestures lives in the app: Settings › Shortcuts. It shows them with your platform’s real modifier keys, so there is nothing to translate.