Merrimo User Guide › Engines, tools, and settings

Organize stories and projects on Mac

In Merrimo on your Mac, you can manage your story library, create new comics and screenplays, customize project templates, and manage trashed stories.

Browse and open stories

Manage all your stories from the Stories window:

1. Choose File > Stories… (or press ⌘O).
2. Switch between Grid View (large cover cards) and List View, a table of your stories with their chapters, words, when you last opened each on this Mac, and who shared it. Click a column's header to sort by it. Search finds a story by its title or its premise.
3. Double-click a story to open it in its own window. Press Return to rename the selected story.
4. To start a story, click the New Story button (+) in the toolbar. The untitled story opens in its own window, on the canvas.
5. Control-click a story to open, rename, duplicate or share it, publish it as an example, or move it to the Trash.

Covers and Continue

Every story has a cover, and it's the same on your Mac, iPhone and iPad. The cover is your story's key art. Without key art, it's the picture of the first character in your Cast list that has one, then the first location's, then the first picture made in the story. A story with no pictures shows its title on its own color. When you make a new portrait for that character, the cover follows it.

Under each cover, your own stories say when you last edited them, such as Edited yesterday. A story someone shared with you says who shared it, such as Shared by Alex Rivera.

With no stories yet, Recents offers New Story.

The story you opened last on this Mac sits above Recents on a large card, with the chapter you were in. Click Continue to open the story in that chapter.

Recover or permanently delete trashed stories

Safely restore accidentally removed work or purge disk storage:

1. In the Stories window sidebar, click Trash.
2. Select a deleted story and click Put Back to restore it to your active stories library.
3. To permanently remove the story and free up disk space, select the story and click Delete Immediately, or click Empty Trash in the toolbar.