> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.quarkle.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Editor overview

> The three panels of the Quarkle editor: your chapters, your manuscript, and the Creative Companion.

The Editor is where the writing happens. It has **three areas**: quick actions on the left, your manuscript in the middle, and Quarkle's AI panel on the right.

## Overview

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  <img src="https://mintcdn.com/quarkle/5WUUaYl-dgOEAFoM/images/app/editor-overview.jpg?fit=max&auto=format&n=5WUUaYl-dgOEAFoM&q=85&s=875303bf06d7efb790316bcd112c71ce" alt="The Quarkle editor with its left rail, manuscript, and Creative Companion panels" width="1512" height="794" data-path="images/app/editor-overview.jpg" />
</Frame>

## Left rail

Your quick actions:

* **Library**: back to [the Studio](/getting-started/the-studio)
* **Import**: [bring in a draft](/getting-started/import-and-export)
* **History**: [version checkpoints](/editor/version-history)
* **Export**: [save a copy out](/getting-started/import-and-export)
* **Share**: [invite readers](/editor/sharing)
* **Chapters**: [your manuscript map](/editor/chapters)

## Center: your manuscript

The writing surface itself, with the chapter title, the [formatting toolbar](/editor/writing-and-formatting), and a live word count. A **status bar** along the bottom shows your save status and when the next auto-checkpoint will be taken.

The pink quill at the bottom-right opens [Ghostwriter](/editor/ghostwriter), a one-press way to continue the chapter in your voice without going through Chat.

Your work **autosaves**; press **⌘/Ctrl+S** to save on demand.

## Right: the Creative Companion

Quarkle's [AI panel](/ai/creative-companion), with four tabs:

<Columns cols={2}>
  <Card title="Chat" icon="comments" href="/ai/quarkle-chat">
    Quarkle Chat. Brainstorm and talk through your book.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Review" icon="user-pen" href="/ai/review-room">
    The Review Room. Margin comments from AI reviewers.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Atlas" icon="book-atlas" href="/ai/story-atlas">
    The Story Atlas, your living record of characters and world.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Report" icon="chart-line" href="/ai/reports">
    Reports. A bird's-eye read of a chapter or book.
  </Card>
</Columns>

<Note>
  On narrow screens like phones and tablets, the manuscript and the Creative Companion swap places with a toggle, so you can focus on one at a time.
</Note>

## Learn the essentials

<Columns cols={2}>
  <Card title="Writing & formatting" icon="pen-fancy" href="/editor/writing-and-formatting">
    Fonts, layout, images, and shortcuts.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Ghostwriter" icon="feather" href="/editor/ghostwriter">
    Continue a chapter in one press, with optional steering.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Chapters" icon="list" href="/editor/chapters">
    Add, rename, reorder, and delete chapters.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Version history" icon="clock-rotate-left" href="/editor/version-history">
    Automatic checkpoints and safe restore.
  </Card>

  <Card title="The Creative Companion" icon="wand-magic-sparkles" href="/ai/creative-companion">
    Everything the right-hand AI panel can do.
  </Card>
</Columns>

<Card title="Next: Ghostwriter" icon="arrow-right" horizontal href="/editor/ghostwriter">
  Continue the chapter from its final line.
</Card>