An essay outline you can keep rewriting
Most outlines are abandoned the moment drafting starts. VerbaFlow keeps yours alive beside the text: drag a heading and the whole section follows, fold what you are not working on, and let the shape of the argument change as you find it.
Start from headings, not from a blank page
Write the four or five claims your essay has to make, in whatever order they arrive, and let them be headings. The outline builds itself from the draft as you type — there is no separate plan document to maintain and no second copy of the structure to keep in sync.
- Every heading you write appears in the outline immediately
- Heading levels nest, so sub-arguments sit under the claim they belong to
- Click any entry to jump straight to that part of the draft
Move a section, not a paragraph at a time
Dragging a heading takes everything underneath it: the sub-headings, the paragraphs, the quotations, the ideas you stashed for later. Reordering an argument stops being a cut-and-paste exercise you have to proofread afterwards.
- Drag to reorder whole sections and their contents
- Promote a paragraph to a heading when it turns out to be the real point
- Demote a heading back into prose when it does not earn its place
Fold away the parts you are not writing
A long essay is unreadable as one unbroken column. Collapse by heading level and the draft becomes the section you are actually working on, with everything else one click away rather than gone.
- Fold and unfold by heading level
- Keep the argument visible while the prose stays out of the way
- Reopen any section without losing your place
Park an idea without leaving the sentence
A thought that belongs three sections further down does not have to break your paragraph. Drop an inline idea placeholder between two paragraphs, keep writing, and come back to it when the draft is ready for it.
- Inline placeholders between any two paragraphs
- Hide every placeholder at once when you want to read the prose clean
- Turn an idea into real paragraphs when its moment comes
Give your next essay a shape before it has a first sentence.
Open a blank page, drop in the claims you know you have to make, and start moving them around. The order will come.