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How it works

One notebook, two equal workspaces.

Literature Notebook treats reading other people's work and creating your own as the same practice seen from two directions. Review and Write share one account, one library of people and concepts, and the same three categories: Fiction, Nonfiction and Scholarly.

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Workspace one

Review

For works created by other people that you read closely.

  1. 1. Add the work

    Record a novel, a memoir, a monograph or a journal article with the metadata that matters for that kind of text.

  2. 2. Capture passages

    Save excerpts with their location, your note and a category, so a quote still carries its context months later.

  3. 3. Analyze and compare

    Work through adaptive analysis pages, then set works side by side to see where they agree and where they break.

See the Review workspace

Workspace two

Write

For original works you are planning, drafting, developing and finishing.

  1. 1. Start the project

    Choose Fiction, Nonfiction or Scholarly and get planning pages built for that form, not a generic outline.

  2. 2. Draft in sections

    Build a hierarchy of parts, chapters and scenes with live word counts and per-section status.

  3. 3. Revise deliberately

    Run named revision passes, track flagged items by priority, and log sessions against your own goals.

See the Write workspace

Where the two sides meet

A passage you saved while reviewing can become a source attached to a section of your own draft. The Connections view keeps that lineage visible, so you always know which reading fed which piece of your writing.