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Using Chat and Plan together

How to plan your novel while keeping your chats open.

1 min read Last updated May 1, 2025

When planning your novel, you may find that that you want to make changes to your outline. You do not need to keep switching between chat and plan to do this however, and can have both open on your screen at the same time.

  1. From your chat, go to the Actions Menu .
  2. Select either split left or split right . actions menu in chat
  3. Now go to the Plan interface. You can now continue your chat, whilst making changes to your outline. actions menu in chat

Alternatively, from the plan interface:

  1. Open the side panel
  2. Go to Chats and either click + New Thread , or select an existing chat. creating a new chat in the sidebar
  3. Click Pin or Add .
  4. Once pinned, you can click Switch Side to change where the pinned panel is located. switching sides for sidebars