🔥 Kindling v1.2.0 — Flexible Data, Screenwriting & Scrivener

The biggest release yet. v1.2 brings a light theme, full-page prose editing, typed custom fields, hierarchical tags, a screenplay project type, story structure templates, treatment generation, and complete bidirectional Scrivener support — 75 files changed, ~14,200 lines added across 12 issues.

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🌗 Light Theme

Kindling now supports light, dark, and system themes. System mode follows your OS preference automatically. Switch manually from Settings → Appearance.

Dark-only was our number one adoption blocker — this closes it.

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📝 Full-Page Prose Editing

In addition to beat-by-beat drafting, you can now switch to a full-page prose editor per scene. Toggle between page view and beat view from the scene toolbar — your beats stay available for reference in the sidebar.

For writers who want an uninterrupted drafting surface without leaving the structure behind.

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🔧 Typed Custom Fields

References now support typed custom field definitions instead of plain key/value pairs:

Type	Use it for
Text	Names, descriptions, freeform notes
Number	Age, height, word count
Date	Birth dates, event dates
Select	Role (protagonist/antagonist/supporting)
Multi-select	Traits, affiliations, tags

Field definitions are per-project and apply consistently across all references of a given type. Reorder fields with drag-and-drop.

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🏷️ Hierarchical Tags

A three-level tagging system with colours, descriptions, and a dedicated Tag Manager. Apply tags to scenes, characters, locations, and other entities. Create saved filters to quickly surface references matching specific criteria.

Example hierarchy:

role/
  protagonist
  antagonist
  supporting
status/
  active
  deceased

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🔍 Smart Reference Detection

A non-AI detection engine that scans your prose for character, location, and item names. When matches are found, suggestions appear in the References panel — link them with one click, or dismiss.

No AI, no cloud, no magic. Just pattern matching against your own reference names.

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🎬 Screenplay Project Type

Create a new project as a Screenplay for film and TV writing workflows:

• Slugline input — INT./EXT. with time-of-day parsing
• Page count estimator — Based on the industry standard of 250 words per page
• Treatment generation — Export a 1-page or 5-page treatment as DOCX from your synopses

Screenplay projects otherwise work identically to novel projects — beats, references, and export all function the same way.

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📐 Story Structure Templates

Pre-built chapter and beat scaffolding for new projects:

Beat sheet templates:

• Save the Cat (Blake Snyder)
• Hero's Journey (Joseph Campbell)
• Three-Act Structure

Novel structure templates:

• Seven-Point Story Structure (Dan Wells)
• Snowflake Method (Randy Ingermanson)
• Story Grid (Shawn Coyne)

Templates are available when creating a new project. You can customise or delete anything they generate.

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🔄 Bidirectional Scrivener Workflow

Import from Scrivener 3 (.scriv):

• Binder hierarchy → chapters and scenes
• RTF-to-HTML conversion preserving formatting
• Synopses and document metadata

Export to Scrivener 3 (.scriv):

• Create new bundles from your Kindling project
• Update existing bundles with a match preview dialog showing exactly how Kindling scenes map to Scrivener documents before writing changes

Plan in Plottr, draft in Kindling, revise in Scrivener. The full round-trip now works.

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📖 EPUB Export Hardening

• Smart quote handling improvements
• Formatting consistency across Classic, Modern, and Minimal themes
• Expanded test coverage

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📥 Installation

Platform	File
🍎 macOS (Apple Silicon + Intel)	Kindling_1.2.0_universal.dmg
🪟 Windows	Kindling_1.2.0_x64-setup.exe or .msi
🐧 Linux (AppImage)	Kindling_1.2.0_amd64.AppImage
🐧 Linux (Debian)	Kindling_1.2.0_amd64.deb
🐧 Linux (RPM)	Kindling-1.2.0-1.x86_64.rpm

⬆️ Upgrading

Kindling checks for updates automatically. If you have v1.1.x installed, you'll see a banner prompting you to restart. You can also download manually from above.

Your projects are stored separately and will be preserved.

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Full Changelog: https://github.com/smith-and-web/kindling/compare/v1.1.2...v1.2.0

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