Exporting Your Data

Penpoint gives you several ways to get your work out of the app and into other formats: to submit your manuscript, share your notes with a writing partner, or keep a copy somewhere else. Nothing here ever changes or removes anything from your book; exporting only makes copies.

Which One Do You Want?

There are three answers, depending on what you want to end up with:

• Your written story: the chapters and scenes you've typed in Manuscript Mode (where you write your prose). Use the manuscript export to turn it into a single document (Word, PDF, EPUB, and more) ready to submit or share. Open it from the Export button (an upward-arrow icon) in the row of buttons at the top of Manuscript Mode. Same steps on Mac.
• Your worldbuilding: your characters, places, items, notes, chapter outlines, and arcs. Even a realistic novel has this. Use the worldbuilding export to save it as documents (Word, PDF, and more). Open it from Settings (the gear icon in the sidebar), choose "Import/Export," then click "Open Export Wizard" (a step-by-step screen). Same steps on Mac.
• The whole book: everything at once, as a single .penpoint file only Penpoint can open. This is the one for moving a book to another computer or handing it to someone who also writes in Penpoint. Open it from your library (the screen you see when you first open Penpoint): right-click a book (or Ctrl+click on Mac), or click its three-dot menu, and choose "Export Book."

Where Would You Like to Start?

• Exporting Worldbuilding Data: Save your characters, places, items, notes, chapter outlines, and arcs to Word, PDF, Markdown (plain text with simple formatting marks), Rich Text (.rtf, opens in most word processors), or Plain Text.
• Exporting Manuscripts: Turn your written chapters into a single document: Word, EPUB (for e-readers), PDF, Markdown (plain text with simple formatting marks), Plain Text, or Rich Text, with control over what's included and how it looks.
• Standard Submission Format — a Word document already set to the margins, font, and spacing literary agents expect.
• Exporting to Scrivener — export your manuscript as a Scrivener 3 project, chapters and scenes already split into the binder (the folder list down its left side).
• Pasting Your Manuscript Into a Form — for agencies that want your pages pasted into a form or email instead of attached.
• Generating Templates: Make blank fill-in-the-blank files shaped like your book's worldbuilding. Handy for jotting notes elsewhere, handing to a collaborator, or working with an AI tool. Anything you fill in can be imported back.
• Exporting a Book: Save a whole book as one .penpoint file: manuscript, worldbuilding, pictures and settings together, ready to move to another computer or share with another Penpoint writer.