Takes

Read your takes

A take is only useful if you can read it in the sentence. Step through them in place and hear each one.

Step through them

  1. Put the caret in a take.
  2. Choose Takes ▸ Next Take ⌥⌘→ or Takes ▸ Previous Take ⌥⌘←.

Each take becomes live in turn and reads in the draft. The others stay.

List them

Takes ▸ Show Takes ⌃Space lists the takes of the passage where the caret is.

Go to the next set

⌥⌘↓ moves the caret to the start of the next set of takes in the manuscript. ⌥⌘↑ goes to the one before.

In the outline

Choose View ▸ Show Outline ⌃⌘S. Each set of takes is a row under its paragraph, with a row for each take. The live take’s ring is filled.

  1. Open the set’s row.
  2. Right-click a take.
  3. Choose Select.

That take becomes live. The others stay.

first-frost
Morning
The frost came overnight, without ceremony. By morning the beds were silvered, and the last of the tomatoes had surrendered on the vine.
overnight, without ceremony
silvered
silvered
stiff and shining
gone grey
Mara walked the rows with her coffee going cold, counting what the cold had spared — less than she feared, if she was honest. The kale, of course, looked delighted.
She stood a while longer, breath and coffee steaming together. The garden could wait; the frost could not.
practical She went in for her gloves.
lingering She stood a while longer, breath and coffee steaming together. The garden could wait; the frost could not.

Morning

The frost came overnight, without ceremony. By morning the beds were silvered, and the last of the tomatoes had surrendered on the vine.

Mara walked the rows with her coffee going cold, counting what the cold had spared — less than she feared, if she was honest. The kale, of course, looked delighted.

She stood a while longer, breath and coffee steaming together.

The garden could wait; the frost could not.

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Fig. 1 — The outline with a set of takes open, and the live take selected.