Milestones
Remember where the draft has been.
Mark a meaningful point in the manuscript and see how the work has changed since. A picture of the whole manuscript, named by you, kept as it was.
Mark a point worth keeping
Some moments in a draft deserve a name: the day the first draft is done, the version that went to a reader, the evening before you changed the ending. From the manuscript’s Inspector, save a Milestone and name it. Sutura keeps the whole manuscript as it stands in that moment, every part, chapter and scene, and changes nothing in it.
Open a Milestone later and you can read that manuscript as it was, with its own contents to go straight to a part of it. It cannot be edited, and the live manuscript does not move. A Milestone is a picture to return to, not a branch to manage.
A draft should be able to look back without going back.
See what has changed since
Each Milestone remembers how many words the manuscript had. Put the Milestone widget on your board and it names the latest one, when you saved it, and how far the manuscript has come since.
A single scene’s earlier versions live in its own History, in the Inspector. The Inspector