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Chapter status and labels

Bibliogon lets you track each chapter's drafting stage with a fixed status and tag it with your own colour-coded labels, the way Scrivener does. Both show up as small chips on the chapter cards, so you can see at a glance which chapters are done and which still need work.

What it does

There are two separate tools, and you can use either or both:

  • Status: a fixed, four-stage drafting workflow for a chapter: To Do, First Draft, Revised, Final. There is also a "no status" option to clear it.
  • Labels: your own named, colour-coded tags. Each book has its own set of labels, which you define yourself (for example "POV: Anna", "Needs research", "Cut candidate"). A chapter can carry at most one label.

Status is the same fixed vocabulary in every book. Labels are book-specific and entirely up to you.

How to use

Set a chapter's status

  1. Open the book and switch to the Storyboard (the chapter-card view).
  2. On a chapter card, open the Status dropdown.
  3. Choose To Do, First Draft, Revised, or Final, or pick "no status" to clear it.

The status chip appears on the card immediately. You can also set the status in the Outliner, which has a sortable Status column.

Define your labels for a book

Labels are created per book before you can assign them:

  1. In the Storyboard, click Manage labels to open the inline label panel.
  2. To add a label, type a name in the new-label row, pick a colour from the colour swatches, and click Add (or press Enter).
  3. To rename a label, edit its name and click outside the field.
  4. To recolour a label, click a different swatch.
  5. To delete a label, click the trash icon on its row. Any chapter that used it simply loses the label; the chapter itself is not affected.

Assign a label to a chapter

  1. On a chapter card in the Storyboard, open the Label dropdown.
  2. Choose one of the book's labels, or pick "no label" to clear it.

The coloured label chip then appears on the card. The Outliner also has a Label column for this.

Where to find it

  • Status and label dropdowns: on each chapter card in the Storyboard.
  • Manage labels: the Manage labels button in the Storyboard.
  • Sortable columns: the Status and Label columns in the Outliner.
  • Chips: status and label chips appear on the chapter cards in the Storyboard and in the Outliner rows.

Tips

  • Use status for the universal "where is this chapter in the draft" question and labels for whatever else matters to your project (point-of-view, plot thread, revision passes).
  • Keep your label set small. A handful of meaningful, distinct colours is easier to scan than a dozen near-identical ones.
  • Because labels are per book, you can reuse the same names with different meanings across projects without them clashing.
  • Sort the Outliner by Status to gather all the To Do chapters together when you plan your next writing session.
  • Storyboard view: where you set status, labels, and per-chapter targets
  • Outliner: the spreadsheet view with sortable Status and Label columns
  • Writing goals: daily goal, streak, and per-chapter word targets