Dashboard

See your book's vital statistics, writing progress, and outstanding tasks at a glance.

What it does

The dashboard gives you a single-page overview of your book: total word count, estimated page count, how many chapters are in each status, your most-mentioned entities, writing velocity over the past week and month, and open items collected from your notes. Navigate to it at /books/{slug}/dashboard or via Cmd+Shift+,.

How to use it

Book stats — shows total words, estimated pages, and a breakdown of chapters by status (draft, revision, final, etc.). Also counts total entities and how many are unresolved stubs. Click the entity count to open the entities overview page. Hover over the word count to reveal a refresh button that recomputes word counts from all content files — useful if the displayed count looks stale.

Entity stats — lists your most-mentioned entities ranked by how often they appear in the manuscript. Useful for spotting under-developed characters or over-mentioned ones.

Writing velocity — shows words written in the last 7 days and 30 days, with a daily activity breakdown.

Open items — aggregates all note tags (like "revision", "research", "todo") across the entire book and shows how many notes carry each tag and which chapters they appear in. Use this to track outstanding work.

Entity mind map — a link card that opens the interactive mind map page at /books/{slug}/mindmap. See Entity Mind Map for full details. Also accessible via Cmd+Shift+X.

Entity colors — a color palette appears for each entity type. Click a swatch to change the highlight color used for that type's @-mentions in the editor. The change takes effect immediately without a page reload.

Settings — choose a prose font family from a curated list (EB Garamond, Lora, Merriweather, Playfair Display, and others). The selected font loads from Bunny Fonts and applies to the editor. You can also adjust the words-per-page divisor used to estimate page count, text size, and line height.

Zen mode settings — configure what zen mode does when toggled. Options include closing sidebars, hiding the footnote bar and status bar, and choosing how inline marks (mentions, links, footnotes, notes) are treated: normal, dim (reduced opacity), or hide (marks look like plain text). These are global settings that apply to all books.

Entity assist — set the global default mode for automatic entity linking: off, discover (scan on Enter), suggest (ghost text), or both. Each book can override this setting from its own settings section on the dashboard. See the Entities documentation for details on each mode.

Syncing to a remote (backup) — in standalone mode, the advanced section lets you back your book up to a remote git host. Paste the remote URL (e.g. https://gitea.example.com/you/book.git), toggle auto-push to remote to sync automatically as you write, and use test connection to confirm the remote is reachable — the status reads connected, offline, auth failed, or no remote. Authentication uses a token provided to the server through the SKRIBEX_GIT_TOKEN environment variable; it is never stored in your book or its files. This panel is hidden on hosted instances, where syncing is configured for you.

Notes

• Dashboard data is read from the SQLite cache, so it reflects the state as of the last save.
• Velocity tracking relies on commit history metadata. The daily breakdown may show zero for days with no saves.
• Auto-push batches your work — it syncs after several saves or a short idle period, not on every keystroke. The status indicator reflects the last test or sync, not live connection state.