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Outline Analysis

Where Readability Analysis scores one passage at a time, Outline Analysis looks at an entire outline at once and gives you a bird's-eye report on the shape of your whole manuscript.

Opening the report

In the Outline view, open the menu (⋮) next to an outline in the sidebar, the same menu with Edit and Delete, and choose Analysis. This opens a dedicated report page covering that outline's entire node tree.

The report is a snapshot: it's computed when you open the page, and you can recompute it any time with the Refresh button. It has four tabs.

Overview

  • Grade Level, Reading Ease, and Word Count for the whole manuscript (Flesch-Kincaid, same bands as Readability Analysis).
  • Chapter Pacing: a bar per top-level node (Book/Chapter), sized relative to your longest chapter, giving you an instant read on how evenly your manuscript is paced and where chapters run long or short.

Analysis Overview

Node Complexity

A read-only tree mirroring your outline structure. Each node shows:

  • A word-count chip
  • A grade-level chip, color-banded (green = easy, amber = standard, red = difficult)

Click any node to jump to its Review Mode view. This tab makes it easy to spot the one scene that's far denser (or far longer) than everything around it.

Node Complexity Tree

Word Frequency

The most-used words across the manuscript, with occurrence counts and a rate per 1,000 words.

  • Include names toggle (off by default) - normally your character, world, and glossary names are excluded, so they don't dominate the list. Turn it on to include them.
  • Overused-word flags: words you lean on too heavily (a repeated adjective, a crutch phrase) are flagged with a warning chip, surfacing unconscious writing tics.

Word Frequency

Grammar Rollup

Aggregate counts across the whole outline of the same issues the editor's grammar check flags:

  • Passive voice
  • Wordy phrases
  • Weak adverbs

Each category can be expanded to show the worst-offending nodes, each clickable through to its Review view so you can go straight to what needs work.

Grammar Rollup

Notes

  • The report is informational only and is never saved to your files; it's recomputed on demand.
  • Scoring assumes English prose.
  • It works comfortably on large, novel-length outlines with a hundred or more nodes.
  • Grade Level and Readability scores are based on the Flesch-Kincaid forumlae