# Incorporate a winning draft line

> Review a winning draft line as a whole document, click Incorporate to land it on your target line, and return to the named save point when you need it.

About 4 minutes in Plot

## Follow along in Plot

Each step matches visible UI in the editor.

1. [Open the draft line that won](https://www.inkwell.software/resources/guides/incorporate-changes#step-1)

   In Plot, open the draft line that won — an alternate ending, a room rewrite, or a table-read version that beat Main. That is the source. You will incorporate it into the line you keep living in, usually Main.

   _Pick the parallel version with the good stuff_

2. [Review the whole-document preview](https://www.inkwell.software/resources/guides/incorporate-changes#step-2)

   Open version history and choose Incorporate into… then select your target — usually Main. Plot opens a locked whole-document preview. Nothing has landed yet. Today the preview is the whole document.

   _Locked whole-document preview — then click Incorporate_

3. [Click Incorporate to land it](https://www.inkwell.software/resources/guides/incorporate-changes#step-3)

   Review the moved scenes and rewritten dialogue, then click Incorporate to land the whole source document on your target line. Use a take for one-scene experiments, or Agent Mode for a scene or an act; Agent Mode changes are reviewed on your own line’s markup rail.

   _Click Incorporate — the whole document lands_

4. [Keep the incorporate save point](https://www.inkwell.software/resources/guides/incorporate-changes#step-4)

   Incorporate already names a save point on the landed draft — usually Incorporated plus the source line. Use that moment. A second save on the same pages does not add a new baseline.

   _The incorporate save point — usually Incorporated plus the source line_

5. [Keep the source draft line or archive it](https://www.inkwell.software/resources/guides/incorporate-changes#step-5)

   Leave the source draft line for reference or delete it once incorporated. Your history stays searchable either way.

   _Parallel takes without duplicate files_

## Related reading

- [Draft lines](https://www.inkwell.software/help/version-control/draft-lines): parallel versions of the whole script
- [Version control for screenwriters](https://www.inkwell.software/learn/version-control-for-screenwriters): why draft lines exist
- [First save point](https://www.inkwell.software/resources/guides/first-save-point): name snapshots first

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