Hello, Product Hunt! We are the team behind Catalpas Atelier, and today we are introducing **Scroll**, our local-first desktop writing and planning studio for novels, nonfiction, and complex long-form Projects. Long projects create more than prose. They create timelines, relationships, research, revision tasks, several manuscript versions, and recurring uncertainty about which source counts now. We built Scroll so those parts can remain connected without moving the author’s manuscript into a proprietary cloud document. Scroll gives writers: - Markdown manuscripts in ordinary local Project folders - Visual and Source editing of the same document - Eleven built-in Story views, from Spreadsheet and Timeline to Relationship, Map, and visual canvases - Separate Board, Calendar, List, and Schedule views for author tasks - Works, Manuscript versions, Publish Versions, and delivery preparation - Black House for focused writing sessions The broad writing and planning foundation is available on Free. Plus adds connected reference and delivery workflows, while Pro adds advanced Project modeling and professional structure. Scroll is available on macOS, Windows, and Linux. Scroll stops at the manuscript-production boundary. It prepares a clear source and context for Scribe, but it does not create PDF, EPUB, page layout, or pagination itself. We would especially value feedback from writers managing chronology-heavy, relationship-heavy, or research-heavy books: which part of your current planning-to-revision workflow creates the most duplicated work or uncertainty?

Catalpas Atelier Scroll

Plan and write complex stories in one local-first Project

Plan and write complex stories in one local-first Project