What's new in Insanitomeium — features, improvements, and fixes.
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Deleted something? You can take it back now
Deleting from the binder is no longer permanent. Delete a document and a message appears at the bottom of the screen with an Undo button — one click and everything is exactly as it was. Miss it, and the document is not gone either: a new Trash section at the foot of the binder holds everything you have deleted for 30 days, and one button puts it back. Delete a folder and its whole contents come back with it, in the right places.
Deleting also stops and asks first now, and tells you how much is going. Delete a folder or a chapter and the prompt names it and counts what is inside, so a whole act cannot quietly disappear on one mis-tap. That matters most on a phone, where Delete sits directly beneath Share and Export in the same menu and your thumb only has to miss by a single line.
If you are clearing out a lot at once, the prompt gets tiresome quickly, so you can switch it off — look for "Confirm before deleting" on your profile page, or in the ··· menu if you would rather not leave what you are writing. The setting belongs to your account rather than to one device, so turning it off on your laptop turns it off on your phone too. The Trash is still there either way.
The binder is no longer a fixed width. Drag its right-hand edge and it grows with you, up to twice its old size — so "Chapter Eleven — The Long Road Home, Part Two" reads as itself instead of trailing off into a row of dots. Your chosen width is remembered on that device, and hiding and re-showing the binder brings it back exactly as you left it.
Titles that are still too long for the space now show in full when you hover over them, however wide the binder is and however deeply the document is nested.
Writing on a phone just got a proper toolbar. A single row of controls now sits directly above the on-screen keyboard, with bold, italic, underline, lists, quotes, undo and redo always within thumb reach — and a dedicated line-break button, which is the one thing a phone keyboard simply cannot do on its own. Tap Aa at the left for everything else: headings, alignment, tables, scene breaks, checklists and more, grouped and labelled.
A sweep across every screen on a phone turned up a handful of things worth fixing. The Compile, Share and feedback windows had a close button that sat underneath the camera notch on newer iPhones and could not be tapped at all — the only way out was to force-quit the app. That is gone. Find, Quick jump and Version history had no way in on a phone and now live in the formatting panel. The Tome theme had pale text on gold buttons that was hard to read, and turning your phone sideways no longer clips the top bar.
Two more, away from the phone. Dragging a folder above a scene in the binder now stays where you put it, instead of springing back below. And if you leave the same document open in two places — a laptop and a phone, say — the app now notices before one copy can quietly overwrite the other, and asks which one you want to keep.
Map your cast: a visual web of character relationships
Meet the Relationship Map: a new view that draws your whole cast as a living web. Every character becomes a card you can drag around, and the relationships you note on their sheets become colored lines between them — family, romance, ally, rival, enemy — with thicker lines for stronger bonds.
Relationships aren't always mutual, and the map knows it. If one character calls someone a friend but she considers him a rival, the line splits down the middle — each half colored by how that character sees it. You can build the web right on the map, too: drag the small + handle from one character onto another and both sheets get the relationship, with a quick picker to tag each side's view. People you mention but haven't given a sheet yet appear as dashed ghost cards, one click away from becoming real characters.
Character and research sheets also learned proper formatting along the way. Line breaks now survive exactly as you typed them, you can style text with bold, italic, underline and strikethrough, and a dash makes a real bullet list — all of it carried through to every export and share link. The Role pill got smarter too: click it and pick from common roles like Protagonist, Mentor or Villain, or just keep typing your own.
Quick Share scenes, plus a friendlier app on your phone
You can now share a single scene or chapter with beta readers in a couple of taps. Choose Quick Share from a document's menu in the binder, and the share window opens with just that document selected — no more unticking everything else in your manuscript.
Report a bug is now Give feedback: tell us about a bug, share an idea, or send anything else — just pick what kind of message it is. And it's finally available on phones, from the menu in the top corner, with screenshots straight from your camera roll.
Sharing and compiling on a phone also got a big upgrade: those windows now rise from the bottom of the screen at full width, with the document lists stacked so everything is readable and tappable — including the copy button, which now reliably puts your new share link on the clipboard.
Reorder your binder by touch, and better iPad line breaks
You can now rearrange documents in the binder on a phone or tablet by pressing and holding an item, then dragging it to its new spot. Before, the list would scroll away as you tried to drag and cancel the move — a quick swipe still scrolls as usual, but a press-and-hold picks the item up.
We also fixed line breaks on iPad: if you write with a Magic Keyboard or another external keyboard, pressing Shift+Enter now drops to the next line within the same paragraph instead of starting a brand-new one.
One caveat: the on-screen keyboard on iPhone and iPad doesn't tell apps when Shift is held, so it sends the same signal for Shift+Enter as it does for a plain Enter. Because of that iOS limitation, this line-break shortcut only works with a hardware keyboard and we're unable to support it on the on-screen keyboard.
Character & research sheets you can fill in and export
Creating a character or research note now offers a ready-made template: a clean, structured sheet with sections for the things you actually track — a character's basics, personality, relationships, goals and arc; a research note's summary, key facts, sources and open questions. Prefer a blank page? That's still one click away.
Every part of a sheet is yours to shape. Edit any field, rename a section, remove the ones you don't need, or add your own — nothing is fixed.
And your sheets aren't trapped in the app: export any character or research note to PDF, Word, ePub, or Markdown and it comes out looking just like it does on screen, headings and all.
Writing on a phone just got a lot smoother. The menu button in the top bar now opens a full-height panel that slides in from the right, with your account, session tools, view options, theme, and everything else laid out in clear groups instead of a cramped list.
Writing sprints go full-screen on mobile with a big countdown ring, tap-to-pick durations, and an optional word goal — and once a sprint is running, a live timer sits in the top bar so you always know how long is left, even after you close the panel.
Split view works on phones too: your two documents stack vertically, and the pane you're not typing in tucks away when the keyboard comes up so you get the full screen for writing.
Split view upgrades, sharing options, and annotation polish
The split editor grew up: drag the divider to resize the two panes exactly how you like, and open a corkboard in one pane while you write in the other.
Beta-reader share links can now include your margin notes as numbered endnotes — strictly opt-in, so your private notes stay private unless you tick the box.
Annotations got a polish pass too: click any note to edit it, cards line up beside their text and never overlap, and the label picker on corkboard cards opens right where you clicked. On phones, Share and What's New are now in the menu.
The editor toolbar and the top menu were redesigned around one idea: everything you need in one tidy row, and everything else one click away.
The toolbar now uses compact menus — paragraph styles, fonts with live previews, alignment, text color and highlight swatches — plus a font-size stepper and a ⋯ menu for the rest. Up top, a view switcher flips between Editor, Split, and Corkboard, a progress pill tracks your session word goal, and the Sprint button counts down right in the bar.
The Help menu (the ? icon) now gathers documentation, What's New, keyboard shortcuts, and bug reporting in one place.
Insanitomeium now keeps automatic snapshots of every document as you write, so an accidental delete — or an over-enthusiastic rewrite — is never permanent.
Snapshots are captured quietly in the background while you work. Open the version history at any time to read an earlier draft and restore it with one click; restoring is itself reversible, so you can never make things worse by looking.
Something not working the way it should? Open the Help menu (the ? icon) and choose "Give feedback" (originally labeled "Report a bug") to send us a description — and up to three screenshots — without ever leaving your manuscript.
Your privacy is built in: screenshots are automatically scrubbed of hidden photo data (like camera and location details) before they leave your browser, and the report tells you exactly what it includes before you send it. We read every report.
There is now a place to find out what is new: the News & Updates page lists every feature, improvement, and fix as it ships — you are reading it right now.
Keep an eye on the ✨ What's New button in the top bar: a small dot appears whenever something new has landed since your last visit.
You can now send your work to beta readers — no account required on their end. Click the new Share button in the top bar, pick the chapters and scenes you want to include, and Insanitomeium creates a private link you can send to anyone.
You stay in control the whole time: set the link to expire after 7, 30, or 90 days (or never), add an optional password, and revoke any link whenever you like from the Share window.
Select any passage in the editor and click the comment button to attach a note to it. The commented text gets a subtle underline, and your note appears as a card in the margin beside the passage it refers to — like scribbling on a printed draft.
On smaller screens your notes tuck into a tidy panel instead, so they never crowd the page. Edit or remove a note at any time; everything saves automatically.
Highlight any passage and the editor toolbar now shows exactly how many words and characters you have selected, right beside the document word count. Handy for trimming a scene to length or checking a contest excerpt against its limit.