Studio

Build a table of contents, a bibliography or a plot grid from your writing

Studio builds reference pages and planning tools from what you have already written: a table of contents, a bibliography and a plot grid. It reads your headings, citations and chapter markings, so the result is ready in seconds. Each result is saved in your project, where you can edit it like anything else.

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Studio is on the Plus plan. On Pro, AI Studio adds an AI table of contents and an AI bibliography for manuscripts that have no headings or citations yet.

Overview

Open Studio from the app sidebar. The page has two tabs: Studio, on the Plus plan, and AI Studio, on the Pro plan. Pick a generator, choose the documents it should read, and click Generate.

A table of contents or a bibliography is saved as a document, and a plot grid is saved as a plot grid. You can edit the result, open it in Split View next to your chapter and share it publicly. A table of contents or bibliography also exports like any other document.

•Three generators: Table of Contents, Bibliography and Plot Grid from Document
•After big edits, run the generator again. A table of contents or bibliography comes out as a new document, and hand edits in the old one are not copied over
•Plot Grid from Document can also update a plot grid you made before

The Table of Contents generator reads the headings in the documents you pick, from Heading 1 to Heading 3, and lists them in order.

•Keeps your heading levels, so sections sit under their chapters
•Gives each entry a page number estimated from word count, about 250 words a page, so check the numbers against your final layout
•Saved as a document, so you can change any entry by hand

Bibliography

The Bibliography generator collects the citations you have added to the documents you pick and formats them as a reference list in APA 7 style, sorted by author.

•Lists each source once, however many times you cite it
•Saved as a document, so you can correct or remove any entry by hand
•Useful for academic papers, research documents and non-fiction books

Plot Grid from Document

Plot Grid from Document turns your manuscript's structure into a plot grid. Chapters become rows, scenes become plot points, and you choose where the plot lines come from.

•Finds chapters from your headings, from a marking you choose (such as lines that start with "Chapter"), from each document, or by page count
•Finds scenes from subheadings or from scene breaks such as ***
•For plot lines, choose one main line, one line per document, or markings in your text such as [[pov: Alice]]
•Can update a plot grid you made before, instead of making a new one

AI Versions (Pro)

The Studio table of contents needs headings, and the Studio bibliography needs citations. On the Pro plan, AI Studio has AI versions of both for a manuscript that does not have them yet, such as one you have just imported.

Table of Contents (AI)

Finds chapter and section breaks even where headings are missing or inconsistent. The result is a document you can edit.

Bibliography (AI)

Finds the sources mentioned in your text and builds a reference for each one. Check every reference before you publish.

•AI versions use your weekly Pro AI credits (about 250 credits a week)
•You can use your own Anthropic, OpenAI or Google key (BYOK). Connect it in Account Settings
•Studio's three generators are on Pro too

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If your manuscript already has headings and citations, use Studio: it is instant and follows them exactly. Use the AI versions for an imported manuscript that has no headings or citations yet.

Covers (Cover Studio)

Covers are not made in Studio. They live in Cover Studio, which you open from the project sidebar. Each project has one cover design, Cover Studio is available on every plan, and the cover art is always an image you upload. Export a print-ready PDF wrap with trim and bleed boxes, or JPGs for the ebook and audiobook covers.

•Front cover, spine and back cover designed together as one print wrap
•The same design, rearranged as an ebook cover (1600×2560) and an audiobook cover (3000×3000)
•Amazon KDP paperback geometry: 0.125 in bleed, spine width from page count and paper type (white, cream or color), spine text from 80 pages
•An ISBN barcode (EAN-13 with the 5-digit price add-on) generated from your ISBN
•33 genre type styles built on Google Fonts, each previewing your own title
•A print check that flags low-resolution art, text outside the safe area and unreadable contrast; plus a 3D mockup, a shelf test and named versions
•On Plus, Cover Studio does some of the work for you: one-click print fixes, colors sampled from your art and a page count kept in step with your manuscript

AI Cover Assistant (Pro)

Works inside Cover Studio. It suggests layouts, typography and color for your cover, restyles it from a short brief, and drafts or critiques the back-cover blurb. It never generates cover art: the art is always the image you upload.

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Cover Studio can add your cover to manuscript exports automatically: as the EPUB cover image, and optionally as the first page of PDF and DOCX exports.

Using Studio Results in Exports

A table of contents or a bibliography from Studio is a document, so it exports like any other. Put it where it belongs in your project: the table of contents near the front, the bibliography at the back.

•Page numbers in a Studio table of contents are estimates, so check them in your final PDF
•EPUB exports also get the table of contents that e-readers show in their menus
•PDF and EPUB exports require the Plus plan
•DOCX, TXT and Fountain exports are available on all plans

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See the Import & Export documentation for the full export pipeline, including multi-document bundling and per-format options.