Named History Versions

The biggest thing I'd love for Sudowrite to add is a way to name past versions in the story bible. Like many Sudowrite authors, I often update my characters, world-building, style, and even my genre between chapters. Not every chapter, of course, but Allie from before the accident isn't the same person as she is afterward. It works well, but is clunky, and when I go back and make changes to a previous chapter it's very frustrating because I don't have a simple way to revert to the "past" version. Sure, I can restore that version from the history, but a long list containing many changes with only the date to guide me is difficult to use for this purpose.

If, instead, I could click on (for example) Allie's history, scroll down to "Before Accident" and click restore to make some changes to Chapter 3, then open her history, click on "Six Month's Post Accident" to return to where she's just finished physical therapy and is no longer using crutches.... That would be absolutely amazing.


And, speaking as a software engineer who admittedly hasn't seen this codebase, it seems as though adding that feature would be a fairly low lift. We can already restore past versions at will. We just need the ability to name them. (I think)

Automatically pinning named version to the top seems a good idea as well.

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Status

Proposed

Board

πŸ’‘ Feature Request

Date

27 days ago

Author

Mason Murphy

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