Snapshots
Go back to an earlier version of a scene, taken automatically or by you.
A snapshot is an earlier version of a scene, kept so you can rewrite boldly and still go back. Mythforge takes them for you as you work, and you can take your own before a big change.
Open a scene's snapshots
In a scene, choose … (Scene details) → Snapshots. On a wide window, it's in the details panel beside the editor.
Each snapshot shows when it was taken and how many words it had.
Automatic snapshots
Before you start changing a scene, Mythforge keeps a copy of its text, at most once an hour. If you write in a scene all afternoon, you'll have a version from the start of each hour. These are named Automatic.
The ten most recent automatic snapshots of each scene are kept. Older ones are cleared to make room.
Take a snapshot
Choose Take a snapshot before a big rewrite. Snapshots you take yourself are never cleared.
To make one easy to find, open it and give it a Name, such as Before the rewrite or Draft sent to Sam. Named snapshots are never cleared either.
Mark a milestone for the whole book
To keep every scene of a manuscript as it is now, open the manuscript, choose … (Manuscript actions) → Mark a milestone…, give it a Name such as First draft or Sent to editor and choose Save. Each scene that has writing in it gets a snapshot with that name, and a note says how many scenes it was kept for. A manuscript with nothing written yet has nothing to save.
In a scene's list, a milestone is an ordinary named snapshot, so it's never cleared. Select it to read the scene as it was, or restore it.
Read and restore an earlier version
- Select a snapshot to read it. It also shows how much longer or shorter it is than the scene now.
- Choose Restore this version.
Restoring is safe to try: the scene's current text is kept first as a Before restoring snapshot, so you can change your mind and restore that one instead. If the scene is open in the editor, it updates straight away.
Restored words don't count towards today's daily goal.
To tidy up, open a snapshot and choose Delete snapshot.
Good to know
- Find and replace takes a snapshot of every scene it changes, so you can undo a replace in one scene.
- Snapshots stay with their scene when you move it to another chapter. If you delete the scene, its snapshots go with it to Recently deleted and come back if you restore it.
- Snapshots are part of your library. They're included in backups and sync, so your other devices have them too.
- Snapshots are for scenes. Lore notes don't have them.