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Case study

Muninn

A local-first workspace for writing novels, from the first loose idea to a compiled manuscript.

Personal project
  • Writing tools
  • Local-first
  • Web app

A novel is more than its manuscript. It is also a collection of research, character notes, places, and scenes that have not found their order yet. Muninn gives those pieces a shared workspace.

A place for the whole story

The project binder keeps draft sheets, research, characters, places, and archived material together. Each sheet has room for a synopsis, notes, a point of view, and a draft status. Writers can reorder scenes and switch between writing, preview, and outline views.

An earlier Muninn interface showing the binder, manuscript list, and writing surface.

From loose sheets to a manuscript

Word targets make progress visible. A compile option gathers selected draft sheets into a Markdown manuscript, while JSON archives provide a way to export and restore the wider project. Multiple novels can live in the same browser workspace.

The tradeoff: local storage

Writing is stored in the current browser. There is no automatic synchronization between devices or browsers; moving a project requires an archive export and import. Clearing browser data can remove local drafts, so keeping exported backups matters.

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The hosted workspace requires sign-in.