Feature, episodic, short-form — you need formatting studios trust, a history you can navigate, and AI that proposes edits inside the script. Plot treats every scene and line as structure, so save points, draft lines, and semantic diffs work the way your process already thinks — not as bolt-ons on a flat file.
INT. COFFEE SHOP - MORNING
MAYA (30s) sits alone, laptop open — three empty cups, one story that refuses to land.
MAYA
What if the ending was the setup? — Inkwell ghost text suggests the end of the line as you type. Press Right Arrow to accept the suggestion, Escape to dismiss it.
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Tab cycles element types. Type INT. and you are in a scene heading. Forced elements when you need them. Industry formatting happens in real time — no format panel between you and the page. Ghost completions accept with Right Arrow; page count, scene count, and character balance update as you write.
Every version preserved, every change tracked. Snapshot the table-read draft before notes land. Branch an alt ending on a draft line. Diff any two save points at scene and dialogue granularity — the structural moves you care about, not a PDF export diff.
When the script enters production, lock it. WGA revision colour sequence, A-pages, omitted scenes — generated from structured screenplay data, not a second tool. Export industry-formatted PDF or FDX; the save-point history stays in Inkwell for the next episode or rewrite.
Plot — the draft stays queryable from first keystroke through lock — every notes pass is a diff, not a new filename.
The three primitives that do the heavy lifting in this workflow.
Dialogue pass, continuity check, and character runner read your screenplay structure and propose reviewable edits — accept or reject line by line. Skills run on the canonical draft, not in a chat sidebar you paste back manually.
Import from Final Draft, export back without losing structure. Fountain stays the portable substrate under the editor — you never have to write raw markup unless you want to.
Try a darker Act 2 or an alt ending without overwriting the trunk. Compare takes, incorporate what worked, keep the rejected branch for reference.
Skills and diffs run on your draft — nothing lands until you accept it. Every accepted change can become a save point.
One arc from first keystroke to submission — with recoverable history at every gate.
Plot parses Fountain in real time. Tab cycles elements; save point when Draft 1 feels complete — the snapshot stays frozen while you keep typing.
Dialogue pass or continuity check proposes diffs in place. Accept what lands; every accepted change can create a save point automatically.
Save point: “Before studio notes.” Apply feedback; semantic diff against the prior snapshot shows exactly what moved — scenes, dialogue, structure.
FDX or production PDF for submission. Inkwell keeps the full save-point tree — the table-read version is never gone because someone kept typing.
Migration, granularity, pricing, and feature status — the concrete questions buyers raise before they switch.
Plot maps standard screenplay elements to Fountain structure on import. Custom element types and non-standard styles may need a one-time cleanup pass after import — the editor shows structure immediately so you can fix mapping before you write forward. Export back to FDX preserves industry element types the production pipeline expects.
Semantic diffs operate at scene and dialogue level — you see which scenes moved, which lines changed, and which elements shifted type. That is the granularity writers use for notes passes, not character-by-character noise from a word processor.
Skills read the screenplay as structured data — scenes, characters, dialogue blocks — and propose edits as a reviewable diff inside Plot. You accept or reject each suggestion; nothing lands in the draft until you say so. There is no copy-paste loop from a chat window.
Locked scripts, revision colours, and A-pages are in active development on Plot. Save points, draft lines, FDX/Fountain round-trip, and AI skills are available in beta. See the about page roadmap for current production status before you plan a lock-heavy schedule.
Writers' rooms & co-writers
Parallel takes without losing the room's history
Read the guide →Showrunners & executive producers
See what changed, which pass stuck, and what the room tried
Read the guide →Students & educators
Workshop-grade history without the industry price tag
Read the guide →Full editor, save points, and AI skill passes — real version control for your drafts.
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