Scenista 1.2 Has Landed: Introducing Scenista Flow
By Andy Stubbs ยท October 12, 2026
FADE IN on Editor 1.2, and the biggest new tool we've built yet.
Every script starts long before the first scene heading. It starts with ideas: a moment you can see, a line you can hear, two characters who have to meet. Editor 1.2 gives those ideas a place of their own, and a way into your script when they're ready.
Introducing Scenista Flow
Scenista Flow is a planning board that sits beside your script. You plan in Sequences: a run of your story, whatever that means to you, from a single scene to a whole act.
Open a Sequence and build it from cards. Drag in a location to set a scene, a character to give them a line, an action or a transition. Then link the cards from dot to dot, and they become a flow, numbered in story order. Cards you don't link stay on the board as ideas for later, so nothing you think of is ever thrown away.
Want two characters talking at once? Link one card to two characters and they become dual dialogue. Want to say how a line is delivered? Hang a parenthetical below the character.
Each card can carry a draft: the action, the line of dialogue, the transition. Leave it empty and it's a placeholder for you to write later. Every card can also have a note, so you remember what you meant it to do.
Turn on Preview and you'll see your Sequence laid out as script pages, exactly as it will appear in your script.
From plan to page
When a Sequence is ready, open the Flow tab in the Editor's right panel and drag it onto your script. A gold line shows where it will go. Let go, and its lines are written in place: your drafts where you've written them, placeholder text where you haven't, and your card notes in the margin.
It's a copy, so once it's in your script, it's yours to rewrite however you like. The Sequence stays on the board, ready to use again.
Scenista Flow works with any script, new or one you've been writing for months. Open it from the Flow tab, with Open Scenista Flow.
Dual dialogue
Two characters, speaking at once, side by side. On any character line, click Dual in the Elements list (or press Ctrl+D) and it becomes two columns. If there's already a speech just above or below, Scenista asks whether to pair them. Dual dialogue prints correctly, never splits across a page, and works with everything else in the Editor, from (CONT'D) to notes.
Scene headings that say more
Some scenes need more than DAY or NIGHT. Hover over any scene heading and click the tag icon to add a part after the time: CONTINUOUS, LATER, FLASHBACK, MONTAGE and more, or anything you type yourself. It's there in your PDF, the Reader and the Scenes list too.
Parentheticals, bracketed for you
Type a parenthetical and the brackets appear on their own. You just write quietly or beat, and the Editor, your PDF and your page count take care of the rest. Parentheticals also never split across a page break now.
Cover artwork
Give your script a face. In Manage Sections, add a Cover and drop in your artwork. It shows on your script's card in Discover, opens the script in the Reader and appears when your script is shared. It's never part of your PDF, and your title page still prints as always.
Your defaults, for every new script
Script Settings has a My Defaults tab again. Set your paper size, scene numbers, how acts print and your editor settings once, and every new script starts that way. Existing scripts keep their own settings.
And a few more things
- The Reader opens faster, and shows your cover or title page beside the title
- Your title page always prints, in exports and the Reader
- Tab is smarter on an empty line: after a character it offers a parenthetical or dialogue, after a scene heading action or a character
- The right panel's tabs are now Format, Bible, Notes and Flow
- Fixes for Enter and Tab next to dialogue, and for typing across a page break
As always, if something doesn't work the way you expect, use the Feedback button and tell us. We read every report.
FADE OUT.