NodinWrite GLASS User Guide

Part One

Get started

What GLASS is, how the Home screen works, and how to create, open, import, and navigate around a document.

Part Two

Write

Tools for your everyday craft: typing, formatting text, fonts and color, paragraphs, lists, pasting, finding, and adjusting your view.

Part Three

Structure a manuscript

The scaffolding of a book: breaks, chapters, tables, notes, headers, page geometry, and reusable styles.

Part Four

Plan & focus

Scaffolding that stays out of the manuscript: an outline for the whole document and a note for each chapter, for plot, characters, or anything else you want to keep track of. Plus goals, writing sprints, and a writing calendar to help you stay focused.

Part Five

Save, protect, recover

How your work is kept safe: saving, autosave, versions, crash recovery, encryption, and document details.

Part Six

Review & edit

Review Mode is where prose is evaluated: passes, tracked suggestions, comments, and the tools to accept or reject them.

Part Seven

Collaborate with an editor

Send one Edit Pass to another person and get their marked-up work back, by file, with no server and no accounts. These are Edit Packets.

Part Eight

Proofread

Spelling and grammar, checked entirely on your machine, using open-source Harper. Nothing is ever sent to a server. No GenAI is used.

Part Nine

Share the finished work

Send your manuscript out as a PDF, a Word file, plain text or Markdown, or straight to a printer.

Part Ten

Settings & help

Preferences, the toolbar's behavior, the shortcut reference, accessibility, updates, and getting help.