The Ellipsus quick-start guide

This is a short guide covering some important details—getting started with documents, drafting, formatting, organizing your work, sharing, and more.

Getting started ✍️

When you open Ellipsus, you'll start on your Dashboard. From the dash, you can:

• Access My work, where all your documents and folders live
• View documents that have been shared with you, under Shared w/me
• Organize your projects with folders
• Search for your documents
• Visit your settings page to set a password, avatar, or choose a theme

Once you’re familiar with your dash, it’s time to open a document and start exploring. You can create documents from your dashboard in three ways:

1. Create a new document
2. Create from a template
3. Import an existing document

Understanding documents and drafts

In Ellipsus, every document has one main document and as many drafts as you need. A draft is a standalone copy of your document. You can use drafts to:

• Collect feedback from betas or editors
• Tinker with a new version of a scene
• Store research or notes
• Try something new—without affecting the main document
• And (much) more!

Sharing, collaborating, and permissions

Ellipsus supports several roles to keep collaboration clear and intentional:

• Document owner
• Can merge 
• Can edit 
• Can comment
• Can view

Ways to collaborate with others include real-time collaboration, comments and chat. You can also export your work, or share a snippet or Reader link.