# Plotra

- [Introduction](/docs): Write your novel and build its world in one place. Scenes, characters and timeline stay linked, co-writers join you live, and canon stays straight.
- Guide: Using Plotra
  - [Getting started](/docs/guide): Your first project in Plotra, and a tour of the screen.
  - [The vault and the binder](/docs/guide/vault-and-binder): Keep the whole story in one organised place: notes, kinds, properties, tags, tabs and panes.
  - [The editor](/docs/guide/editor): Everything the page you write on can do: blocks, formatting, Markdown shortcuts, tables, images, block tags, focus mode, word counts, and what happens when you are offline.
  - [Links and backlinks](/docs/guide/links): Link a scene to its characters and places once, and find everything about them from then on. Wiki-links, embeds, backlinks, unlinked mentions and the graph.
  - [Views](/docs/guide/views): See the same story as a timeline, a corkboard, a plot grid or a storyboard, and what each view is good for.
  - [Working together](/docs/guide/collaboration): Write with co-writers live and get feedback without sending files. Members, sharing, roles, comments, suggestions and version history.
  - [Notifications and activity](/docs/guide/notifications): Know when a co-writer needs you without watching the project. The bell, the activity feed, and choosing which notifications are emailed.
  - [Writing goals](/docs/guide/writing-goals): Keep the draft moving. Words per day, streaks, a daily and a session goal, and targets for the project and for single chapters.
  - [Canon and the spoiler horizon](/docs/guide/canon): Keep a long story consistent and spoiler-safe. The world bible, canon status, releases, reveals, the spoiler horizon, who knows what, and continuity checks.
  - [The AI agent](/docs/guide/ai): An assistant that works inside your story and stays under your control. Turning it on, whose model it runs on, the three modes, undoing what it did, and exactly what is sent where.
  - [Project settings](/docs/guide/project-settings): Shape a project to your medium: its type, modules, status workflow, its own words, labels and kinds, and the ribbon you see it through.
  - [Plans and billing](/docs/guide/plans): The Free and Pro plans on the hosted version, what an AI credit is, and how to upgrade, cancel or go back to Free.
  - [Limits on the hosted version](/docs/guide/quotas): No limit locks a feature, deletes your work or blocks export. What the limits are on each plan, why they exist, and what happens when you reach one.
- Modules: Tools you switch on per project
  - [Modules](/docs/modules): Switch on only the tools your project needs. What a module is, the ten there are, what each adds, and what happens when you switch one off.
- Reference: Shortcuts, roles and project types
  - [Keyboard shortcuts](/docs/reference/keyboard-shortcuts): Every command and every key in a project, grouped as the app groups them, and how to change the ones you can.
  - [Project types](/docs/reference/project-types): The eleven project types: what each is for, the modules it starts with, the format of its scenes, what its releases are called and the ribbon it opens with.
- Self-hosting: Run your own Plotra
  - [Self-hosting with Docker](/docs/self-hosting): Run your own Plotra with one docker compose command, the app, Postgres, the collab server and file storage included.
- Deploying: Running the hosted version
  - [Deploying the hosted version](/docs/deploying): The checklist for putting Plotra on Vercel, Cloudflare, Neon and R2, and switching on paid plans with Creem.
  - [Backups and restore](/docs/deploying/backups): What the nightly backup holds, how to rehearse a restore, and what to do when the database is lost.