Strata

A record of how the work was made.

Writing tools remember what you wrote.
This one remembers that you wrote it.

Twenty-five seconds, no sound: opening a book, writing a line, marking the state, comparing that draft against an earlier one word by word, and exporting it. The book is invented — a real manuscript on a marketing page is a real manuscript published.

Hear when it ships

In development, in the open. If you write book-length work — fiction, a dissertation, long nonfiction — leave an address and we’ll tell you when there is something to run.

Two kinds of mail, both rare: a build worth trying, and the day it ships. Your address is used for that and nothing else — not sold, not shared, not analysed. Ask and it is deleted.

Would rather not hand over an address? Reasonable, given what this is for. The checklist is updated as things land, and needs nothing from you to read.

Strata is built by the Greenfield Override, alongside DAON — the provenance specification underneath it. There is nothing to buy yet; if you want to help the work exist in the meantime, there is a Ko-fi.

What it does

Write

An editor that stays out of the way.

Chapters, scene breaks, notes and research beside the manuscript. Everything is plain text in a folder you can open, so nothing here needs Strata to be readable in ten years.

A chapter open in the editor, with an outline of chapters beside it.
Mark a state

Saving and finishing are not the same act.

Saving happens on its own. Marking a state is you saying this is the version — the one you sent to an agent, the draft you finished at 2am. Only the ones you mark become part of the record.

The Checkpoint control in the toolbar, and the note confirming the state was recorded.
See what changed

Between any two versions, by chapter.

Not four thousand lines of red and green. It opens on which chapters moved, which were rewritten and which you never touched — then shows you the words, in the one chapter you ask about.

The comparison view, listing chapters as revised or untouched.
Send it out

The format they asked for.

DOCX for an agent, PDF for a reader, EPUB, HTML, or LaTeX for a journal — a whole book or the three chapters you selected. Exporting changes nothing about your file or your record.

The export dialog, offering five formats and a destination folder.
Made to be read

Legibility is a setting, not a guess.

Contrast that runs both ways — maximum contrast is not maximum legibility for everyone. Larger targets, reduced motion, and paper grain you can switch off because it lowers effective contrast.

Pictures carry descriptions, and export tells you when one is missing rather than passing over it in silence.

The accessibility panel, with contrast steps, larger targets, reduced motion and paper grain.