Projects

Setting up a project

A project is any single piece of writing. Give it a title and a type and you are done. Everything below is optional and can be filled in later.

Type

Novel, novella, short story, flash fiction, poetry collection, single poem, essay, memoir, nonfiction book, screenplay, stage play, article, or other. The type sets sensible defaults and shapes the outline palette.

Status

Idea, in progress, querying, submitted, under consideration, accepted, published, or abandoned. Status is what drives the pipeline views, so it is worth keeping honest.

The rest

Working title for the name you actually use while the real one is undecided.
Genre and tags are your own vocabulary, not a fixed list.
Description, synopsis, and notes for the thinking around the piece.
Dates for when you started, when you are aiming to finish, and when you actually did.
Series to group it with related work and get combined progress.

Counts

Units and counts

Not everything is measured in words. Each project tracks words, pages, or lines, and Quilvo picks a sensible default: pages for plays and screenplays, lines for poetry, words for everything else. Sessions inherit the unit from their project.

When you mix units, totals are shown as word equivalents with a ~ prefix, and a breakdown tells you what went into them. Set your own conversion rates under Settings > Writing.

Manual or calculated

A project's count can be entered by hand or calculated from its sessions. Calculated is the better default: log the work and the total follows. Manual suits a project you are only tracking loosely.

Either way, a session can add to the total or set it outright. Getting started covers the difference between the two.

Sessions

Logging the work

A session is one stretch of writing. Only the date and the count are required.

Date	Defaults to today. Backdate freely when catching up.
Count	Words, pages, or lines, inherited from the project.
Duration	Optional minutes, if you want to know your rate.
Type	Free writing, editing, research, outlining, brainstorming, revision, or other.
Draft	Optional link to the draft you were working on.
Tags	Your own colour-coded labels, such as "sprint" or "mornings".
Notes	Anything worth remembering about the sitting.

Three ways in

Use the dashboard quick log for the daily habit, the full form when you want the detail, and bulk entry when you are catching up on a week you forgot to record.

Cuts count as work. Negative counts are valid. Log a day where you removed 600 words as -600: the project total stays accurate, and the day still counts towards your streak.

Finding sessions later

The session list filters by project, date range, type, tags, direction, and count range, and searches your notes. Any filtered view exports to CSV with the columns you choose.

Drafts and targets

Milestones inside a project

A target is the count you are aiming at. It is what every progress bar measures against, and what the manuscripts statistics compare across your works.

Drafts are the named passes within a project. They version themselves, hold their own count, start and completion dates, and notes. Starting a new draft can close off the previous one, so you end up with a record of how long each pass actually took. Sessions can be attributed to a specific draft.

Goals

Targets over time

Goals track themselves from your sessions. There is nothing to tick off, and you can run as many at once as you like.

Time based	A word target for a day, week, month, or year. The most common kind.
Project based	Reach a count on one project, finish it by a date, or finish a named draft by a date.
Habit based	A streak of consecutive days, a number of days per week, or a number of sessions per month.

Built to be forgiving

Grace days let a recurring goal survive a missed day.
Pause any goal and resume it later. Nothing is lost.
Word equivalents can be included so page and line sessions count towards word goals.

When a session crosses a goal, Quilvo says so. It celebrates the first time per period only, so hitting your daily target does not congratulate you again at midnight.

Streaks

Consecutive days

A streak counts consecutive days with words logged. Today is treated as pending, so an unwritten today never breaks your streak until the day is actually over.

Freeze days protect the streak when you cannot write. Mark the day frozen, add a reason if you want one, and the streak bridges the gap instead of resetting. The streak calendar shows the last 60 days, and your longest streak recalculates if you edit or delete sessions.

Housekeeping

Archive and delete

Archiving is the safe option and loses nothing. The project leaves your active lists, its goals pause so they stop tracking, and its sessions still count towards lifetime totals and streaks. Unarchive at any time and the goals archiving paused come back.

Deleting asks first. The confirmation shows exactly what goes and what stays, and offers to archive instead. Deleted projects sit in the trash for 30 days before they are permanently removed, so a mistake is recoverable.