# What shipped in September 2026 > Every Plot, Canvas and Inkwell platform update shipped in September 2026, newest first, with what each one changes for writers. 31 updates to Plot, Canvas and the Inkwell platform, newest first. [RSS feed](https://www.inkwell.software/changelog/rss.xml) [Known Product Issues](https://www.inkwell.software/known-issues) [System status](https://status.inkwell.software/) Product Kind Where ## Sep 27 Sunday 2026 2 updates Plot In the app Release ### Import a Word document into Plot[](https://www.inkwell.software/changelog/2026-09#import-word-documents-into-plot) Start a Plot project from a .docx treatment, outline, or page of ideas and keep writing it as editable prose. - Choose Import file on the projects page and pick a .docx up to 3 MB. Paragraphs, headings, lists, and emphasis arrive as editable prose. - Before the project is created, a preview lists what changed on the way in, such as a table flattened to text or an image left out. - Choose Treatment for a prose-first story document, or a script format if you already know where the story is headed. [Learn how it works: Import a Word Document into Plot](https://www.inkwell.software/help/document-evolution/import-a-word-document) Plot In the app Release ### Take one document from notes to a script[](https://www.inkwell.software/changelog/2026-09#one-document-from-notes-to-script) A Plot draft can hold prose, outline beats, and scenes side by side, and the journey menu shows where the draft stands on its way to a script. - Add prose, outline, and script sections to the same draft. Prose becomes screenplay elements only when you choose Screenplay and review the conversion. - The journey menu in the editor toolbar shows the draft's stage, from Notes to Shooting Script, and the writing modes the project allows. - A Treatment project can develop into a Screenplay, Teleplay, Pilot, or Stage Play in the same project, keeping its draft lines, takes, and history, and can return to Treatment. [Learn how it works: Your Document's Journey from Idea to Script](https://www.inkwell.software/help/document-evolution/your-document-journey) ## Sep 26 Saturday 2026 2 updates Plot In the app Improvement ### Dialogue continues clearly across PDF pages[](https://www.inkwell.software/changelog/2026-09#screenplay-dialogue-across-pages) Long speeches in exported screenplay PDFs carry continuation cues when they cross a page. - A speech that continues on the next page ends with (MORE), then resumes with the speaker's name and (CONT'D). - The free screenplay converter shows the same continuation cues in its preview and when you use Print / Save as PDF. [Learn how it works: Export PDF, FDX & Fountain](https://www.inkwell.software/help/writing/export-pdf-fdx-fountain) Platform In the app Improvement ### Keep typing after closing the command palette[](https://www.inkwell.software/changelog/2026-09#clearer-editor-commands) Close the editor command palette with Escape and continue writing at your cursor. - After you open the command palette from your manuscript, Escape returns you to the editor so your next keystrokes go into the draft. - When you type a query, matching commands you can use now appear above unavailable matches. [Learn how it works: Find Your Way Around the Editor](https://www.inkwell.software/help/getting-started/find-your-way-around) ## Sep 24 Thursday 2026 5 updates Plot In the app Release ### Start a short film or a stage play[](https://www.inkwell.software/changelog/2026-09#short-film-and-stage-play-starters) Two new starters sit beside Blank project and Learn Inkwell when you create a Plot project, so you can begin from a working draft instead of an empty page. - Short Film is a complete short scene sequence with notes on conflict, choices and the final image. - Stage Play is a playable one-act with a cast, a practical set, blocking, and notes for a read-through. - A starter is a regular project: rename it, rewrite it, or delete it. On the free plan it counts toward your project limit. - On shorter screens the new-project window now scrolls, so the Create project button stays within reach. [Learn how it works: Create Your First Project](https://www.inkwell.software/help/getting-started/create-your-first-project) Platform In the app Release ### A setup guide on your projects page[](https://www.inkwell.software/changelog/2026-09#setup-guide-on-your-projects-page) Once you have a project, your projects page lists your first steps in Inkwell during your first month: create a project, write your first words, make a save point, and, once you have a Plot project, try AI assistance. Each step takes you to the control that does it. - Steps tick themselves off as you do them, whether you start from the guide or not. - The writing, save point, and AI steps open your most recent project with the right control ready: the page for writing, the save dialog for a save point, or the AI composer in a Plot project. Nothing runs until you choose to. - Collapse the guide to show just your next step. It goes away once every step is done, or a month after you sign up. [Learn how it works: Create Your First Project](https://www.inkwell.software/help/getting-started/create-your-first-project) Platform In the app Improvement ### Agent Mode and help answers start from the best match[](https://www.inkwell.software/changelog/2026-09#agent-mode-and-help-start-from-the-best-match) Agent Mode goes straight to the skill that fits your request, and the Dramaturg answers questions about Inkwell from the help article that answers them best. - At each step of a run, Agent Mode finds the skill that fits your request and goes straight to that pass. - It can still use any skill you have, or none. - When you ask the Dramaturg how something in Inkwell works, it now puts the article that best answers your question first, so its answer and its links start there. [Learn how it works: Use Agent Mode for a Bigger Revision](https://www.inkwell.software/help/ai/agent-mode) Plot Resources Release ### Revision exercises in the screenplay guides[](https://www.inkwell.software/changelog/2026-09#screenplay-revision-exercises) The dialogue, pacing and length guides now include exercises to try on your own draft and figures from produced screenplays, and a new exercise shows what moving a scene does to the story. - Scene-order exercise: reorder seven scene cards, see which setups the new order leaves missing, and download a repair checklist to take into your own revision. - Dialogue guide: pick a speech length and see what share of turns and words run longer, then compare how counting words, paragraphs or lines changes a dialogue percentage. - Pacing guide: rearrange scene lengths to compare two orders, and note what changes at each cut in location, time, viewpoint and immediate goal. What you type stays on the page. - All three guides now show how produced screenplays compare, overall and by genre, so you can see where your draft sits. Plot Resources Improvement ### A second corpus on the dialogue research page[](https://www.inkwell.software/changelog/2026-09#second-corpus-on-dialogue-research) The dialogue research page now adds the Cornell Movie-Dialogs Corpus: 617 films whose median line of dialogue is seven words, the same as the screenplay corpus the page already measured. - See how two-person exchanges unfold: how many turns a typical exchange runs, how often speakers strictly alternate, and how much of an exchange its longest turn carries. - Compare dialogue share by where a character sits in the credits and by the credited gender of speakers. ## Sep 20 Sunday 2026 3 updates Platform In the app Improvement ### A clearer path through AI changes[](https://www.inkwell.software/changelog/2026-09#clearer-ai-change-review) AI changes now arrive with a clearer review bar, plain-language actions, and a composer that makes the difference between Ask, Plan, Auto, and Agent visible before you send. - The review bar keeps the current change, its place in the set, and the accept-or-reject actions together while you read the page. - The Chat composer names Ask, Plan, Auto, and Agent and explains what each mode does, so the choice is clear before you send. - Scope controls make it clearer whether your message carries a selection, scene, act, or the full script. [Learn how it works: Chat with the Dramaturg](https://www.inkwell.software/help/ai/chat-with-the-dramaturg) Platform In the app Improvement ### Settings at a glance[](https://www.inkwell.software/changelog/2026-09#settings-at-a-glance) Settings now puts account, plan, credit, and help information into scannable sections, with clearer next steps and password changes available in place. - See your plan, usage, and credit balance grouped into one clear section. - Open a guide or contact support from a help section organized around the job you are trying to finish. - Change your password directly in account settings. [Learn how it works: Change How Plot Looks & Behaves](https://www.inkwell.software/help/account/settings-overview) Platform Website Release ### Search the Inkwell site[](https://www.inkwell.software/changelog/2026-09#search-the-inkwell-site) Search across help, guides, comparisons, glossary terms, essays, and free resources from one place on the Inkwell site. - Results are grouped by the kind of answer they contain, so a how-to article stays distinct from a comparison or glossary definition. - Search accepts ordinary questions as well as feature and screenwriting terms. - Open a result at the exact guide, article, definition, comparison, or resource that answers it. ## Sep 12 Saturday 2026 4 updates Plot In the app Improvement ### Agent Mode spends less of your allotment on thinking[](https://www.inkwell.software/changelog/2026-09#agent-mode-allotment-lasts) Notes and look-ups during an Agent Mode run cost less than rewriting, so more of the allotment goes to the changes you asked for. - The run still has a fixed number of actions and decisions, shown on the card. - When the agent is reading or thinking, more of that allowance stays available for the work on the page. [Learn how it works: Use Agent Mode for a Bigger Revision](https://www.inkwell.software/help/ai/agent-mode) Plot In the app Improvement ### Ask who said it, and who speaks in the scene[](https://www.inkwell.software/changelog/2026-09#look-up-who-speaks-and-where) Ask the Dramaturg what a character says, which scenes are at a location, or who speaks in a scene, and it can look the answer up from the screenplay. Agent Mode can use the same look-ups while it works a goal. - Ask what a character says across the draft — it can look up those lines and the scenes they belong to. - Ask which scenes are at a location — it can look up the sluglines that belong there. - Ask who speaks in a scene — it can look up the speaking cast of that scene. - Agent Mode can use the same look-ups while it works a scene or an act. - Those answers come from the draft, so you do not have to paste the scene in. - These look-ups are for Plot screenplays. [Learn how it works: Chat with the Dramaturg](https://www.inkwell.software/help/ai/chat-with-the-dramaturg) Plot Resources Release ### TV bible, coverage, and rewrite templates[](https://www.inkwell.software/changelog/2026-09#tv-series-bible-coverage-and-rewrite-templates) Download a TV series bible, a script coverage worksheet, and a screenplay rewrite plan from the free template library — grouped by the job they serve. - Three new Markdown downloads: a TV series bible that separates pitch from continuity, evidence-led script coverage, and a rewrite plan that ranks notes by blast radius. - The template hub is grouped by writer job — screenplay starters, development, feedback, and general writing — instead of by Inkwell product. - Coverage still lives with the coverage skill. The new worksheet is there when you want a printed form, and Plot stays the place for a living bible. Plot Resources Improvement ### Converter and draft-comparison samples[](https://www.inkwell.software/changelog/2026-09#screenplay-converter-and-diff-proofs) The converter and draft comparison tool now include sample files so dual dialogue, scene moves, and production notes are visible before you open your own draft. - Load a sample Final Draft file in the converter to inspect dual dialogue in two columns, numbered scenes, and a per-file fidelity report. - The draft comparison tool includes a before-and-after rewrite example with a moved scene, an added scene, and changed dialogue. - Parsing and comparison stay in the browser. The reports list observable changes; they do not grade whether the rewrite improved the story. ## Sep 11 Friday 2026 1 update Plot In the app Improvement ### Rate an Auto, Plan, or Agent run[](https://www.inkwell.software/changelog/2026-09#rate-an-auto-plan-or-agent-run) When an Auto, Plan, or Agent run finishes, its card now has the same thumbs Ask replies already had. Mark the run useful or not; a thumbs-down can name what went wrong. - The finished run card in the Chat tab now has thumbs, the same control Ask replies already use. - A thumbs-up marks the run useful. A thumbs-down can pick a reason, or open Tell us more. - Ask replies keep their own thumbs on the message. Rate a run and a reply separately. - Click the active thumb again to clear a rating. [Learn how it works: Use Agent Mode for a Bigger Revision](https://www.inkwell.software/help/ai/agent-mode) ## Sep 10 Thursday 2026 8 updates Plot In the app Release ### Rename a character everywhere[](https://www.inkwell.software/changelog/2026-09#rename-a-character-everywhere) The Cast tab lists everyone who speaks, with how much they say and where. Rename one and every cue and mention updates in a single undo. - Open Cast in the right sidebar. Every speaking character is there, built from the cues in the script — no separate roster to keep. - Each entry shows how many lines they have, in how many scenes, and which scenes those are, so you can jump to the first or the last. - Choose Rename, see how many cues and mentions will change, and apply it. Dialogue and action that name the character update too. - Select a character to filter the outline to their scenes. [Learn how it works: The Cast List](https://www.inkwell.software/help/writing/the-cast-list) Plot In the app Release ### Try a scene two ways[](https://www.inkwell.software/changelog/2026-09#scene-takes) Open a take of one scene, rewrite it beside the original, compare the two, and keep the one that works. The rest of the script stays shared. - Put the cursor in a scene and start a take from the draft-line switcher. That scene is copied; everything around it is the same script. - Rewrite the alternate in place, then compare the two versions side by side. - Promote the take you want to keep, or stay with the original. A take is one scene; a draft line is the whole script. - Takes are on Pro. [Learn how it works: Write a Take of a Scene](https://www.inkwell.software/help/writing/takes) Plot In the app Release ### Scene breakdowns from the script itself[](https://www.inkwell.software/changelog/2026-09#script-breakdown-in-plot) On Pro, Plot builds a scene breakdown from the headings, cues, and action already in the draft — sets, time of day, eighths, and cast — and exports it as CSV or PDF. - Open View script reports from the command palette. The Script Breakdown lists every scene with set, INT or EXT, day or night, length, page, and cast. - Extract props and vehicles from the action lines, keep the real ones, and dismiss the rest. - Export the breakdown as CSV for a scheduling tool, or as PDF for the office. - The same cast counts feed the character list and the day-out-of-days view. - Grouping those scenes into shooting days is planned. [Learn how it works: Make a Scene Breakdown & Production Reports](https://www.inkwell.software/help/writing/production-reports) Platform In the app Release ### Every note in one place[](https://www.inkwell.software/changelog/2026-09#all-notes-and-comments-in-one-place) Sticky notes, collaborator comments, and notes from share-link readers now live in one dashboard. Filter by who, by scene, and by what is still open. - Leave yourself a sticky note on a scene from the Notes tab. It travels with the scene and never appears in an export. - Reader comments from a share link land in Feedback, pinned to the line they chose. - All notes opens the project-wide dashboard: every note, who left it, and which scene it is on. - Filter to open notes, to one person, or to your notes versus your readers. Select a note to jump to its line. [Learn how it works: All Your Notes in One List](https://www.inkwell.software/help/sharing/the-notes-dashboard) Platform In the app Release ### Look up a word without leaving the page[](https://www.inkwell.software/changelog/2026-09#dictionary-and-thesaurus) A dictionary and thesaurus opens beside the word under your cursor — meaning, synonyms, opposites, related words, and rhymes — and a click puts the one you want on the page. - Press Cmd+' or right-click Look up. The panel stays beside the draft, not on top of it. - Tabs cover Meaning, Synonyms, Like this, Opposites, Related, and Rhymes. - Choose a synonym and it replaces the word, keeping capitalization and formatting. - Look-ups are on by default. Turn them off under Settings, Dictionary and thesaurus. [Learn how it works: Dictionary & Thesaurus](https://www.inkwell.software/help/writing/dictionary-and-thesaurus) Platform In the app Release ### Invite people to a project[](https://www.inkwell.software/changelog/2026-09#invite-people-to-a-project) Add an editor, a commenter, or a viewer by email. The project appears in their own list, and their save points and comments carry their name. - Open Members on a project card and invite someone by email. - Choose a role: editor, commenter, or viewer. - On a Team workspace, members and seats live under Settings, Organization. - A share link is still the path for a reader who does not have an account. [Learn how it works: Invite People to a Project or Workspace](https://www.inkwell.software/help/sharing/members-and-roles) Platform In the app Release ### Share a script with a link[](https://www.inkwell.software/changelog/2026-09#share-a-script-with-a-link) Send a read-only link to a specific version. Choose whether readers can comment or download a PDF, set a password, an expiry, or a view limit, and revoke the link when the draft moves on. - Create a link from Share in the toolbar. It follows the current draft line, or pin it to a save point or a milestone. - Let readers comment on the page, download a PDF, or both. Pages can carry a watermark with the reader's name or email. - Add a password, an expiry date, or a view limit. Revoke a link and it stops working immediately. - See who opened it, how far they read, and for how long. Their comments arrive in Feedback. [Learn how it works: Share a Script with a Link](https://www.inkwell.software/help/sharing/share-links) Platform Website Release ### How to do things in Inkwell[](https://www.inkwell.software/changelog/2026-09#help-center) A help center that answers the question you came with: tasks, concepts, and reference pages that stay in step with the product, plus a link from each changelog entry to the article that teaches what shipped. - Search from the hub, or browse by topic: writing, sharing, AI, version control, and account. - Task articles walk a job step by step, with photographs of the real product. - Shortcuts, skills, plans, and settings have their own pages, and they match what you see in the app. - In the app, press ? or choose Search help to open the same articles. A changelog entry that teaches a feature links Learn how it works. [Learn how it works: Learn Inkwell in Ten Minutes](https://www.inkwell.software/help/getting-started/learn-inkwell-in-ten-minutes) ## Sep 7 Monday 2026 1 update Platform Website Release ### A public roadmap you can post to[](https://www.inkwell.software/changelog/2026-09#community-feedback-board) Ask for what you need on the same board where you can see what we are building next. Every request gets its own page to vote on and discuss, and you hear from us there when it moves. - Post a feature request or a bug report and it lands on the roadmap next to the work already underway. - Upvote the requests you want, and follow one to hear when its status changes. - Say what you were doing, what you expected, and what happened instead — in the discussion under any request. - Every request has its own link. Send it to a collaborator, or pick the thread back up later. - Our replies sit at the top of the thread, above the discussion. - Filter by theme to read what other writers are asking for in one area. - Read the board without an account. Posting, voting and replying take one. ## Sep 6 Sunday 2026 1 update Plot In the app Improvement ### Say what you want and Auto works out how to answer[](https://www.inkwell.software/changelog/2026-09#ai-companion-rebuild) The companion opens in Auto now: ask a question and you get an answer, ask for a change and it writes one and brings it back for you to review. You stop picking a mode before you type, your screenplay reads as a screenplay in the thread, and the review opens itself when a run finishes. - Auto is where the composer starts. Ask for a rewrite or ask a question in the same box, and the model works out which one you meant. - Changes come back marked up on the draft you are already writing on, and the review opens itself when a run finishes — there is nothing to click first. - Type while a run is working. Your message waits above the composer and goes next; press Send again to interrupt the run and steer it with that message instead. - Screenplay in the thread reads as screenplay — sluglines, character cues and dialogue, not a wall of chat text. - Pick a mode when you want to be specific: Ask never touches the script, Plan proposes an approach before it changes anything, and Agent goes straight to work. - Live controls stay beside the composer while a run works, an unsent draft survives, and earlier results stay reachable in the same conversation. [Learn how it works: Chat with the Dramaturg](https://www.inkwell.software/help/ai/chat-with-the-dramaturg) ## Sep 5 Saturday 2026 1 update Plot In the app Improvement ### Turn ghost text off[](https://www.inkwell.software/changelog/2026-09#ghost-text-off-switch) Ghost text as you type is now a switch, in Settings and in the editor sidebar. Turning it off leaves inline edits and skills exactly where they were. - Switch ghost text off in Settings under Editor, or from the settings panel in the editor sidebar — whichever you have open. - This switch covers the suggestions that appear as you type. Inline edits and the skills you run keep working. - It applies at once: ghost text already on screen clears the moment you turn it off. - The choice persists across reloads and follows you to your other open tabs. [Learn how it works: Ghost Text](https://www.inkwell.software/help/ai/ghost-text) ## Sep 2 Wednesday 2026 1 update Platform In the app Improvement ### One menu for every command[](https://www.inkwell.software/changelog/2026-09#one-command-launcher) Cmd+K anywhere, or a slash in the editor, now opens the same menu over the same list — navigation, settings, exports, editor commands and every AI skill — led by the commands you ran last. - Cmd+K from anywhere and slash in the editor open the same menu, so there is one place to look and one list to learn. - What you ran recently sits at the top, so the commands you use most stop being the ones you hunt for. - Type what you want to do and the closest matches rise — you do not have to remember what we called it. - Skills say what comes back before you run them: proposed edits, a report, or both. - A command that is not available right now tells you why, instead of leaving you guessing. ## Sep 1 Tuesday 2026 2 updates Plot In the app Improvement ### Agent Mode decides its own next step[](https://www.inkwell.software/changelog/2026-09#adaptive-agent-mode) Give Agent Mode a direction and it works the draft the way you would: read a scene, make the change, read the result, decide what to do next. When it finishes, most of what it did comes back as changes you review one at a time. - Describe the outcome you want and let the agent choose the passes, instead of picking the skills yourself up front. - It reads the draft as it goes, so a change it makes early informs the one it makes next. - Name a scene or an act in your direction and it aims its passes there. - The run works on its own draft line and your script is untouched while it does. Its changes then come back to you where you are writing, marked up in place to accept or reject one at a time — a moved scene or a formatting-only tweak you take or leave with the run instead. - Pause a run, read what it has done so far, and pick it up or stop it. [Learn how it works: Use Agent Mode for a Bigger Revision](https://www.inkwell.software/help/ai/agent-mode) Plot Resources Release ### Getting represented, without the guesswork[](https://www.inkwell.software/changelog/2026-09#representation-desk-and-planner) Guides on what agents and managers each actually do, how to find who is repping now, how to write a query, and what to bring to the meeting — plus a private planner that keeps your target list and drafts in your browser. - Read the difference between an agent and a manager before you spend a month querying the wrong one. - Find current representation through the guild directories the guilds themselves keep up to date. - Draft a query and a meeting brief in the planner, and keep a red flag beside the name it belongs to. - The planner saves only when you press Save, and it saves in your browser — no names, loglines or queries reach us. - Every source card shows the day our editors last opened it. ## Browse by month Every update, one month to a page. 1. 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