Cutting is part of drafting. A paragraph that isn’t working, a scene you move somewhere else, a page you trim to keep the pace. Most of the time the words deserve to go. Now and then, a day later, you want one of them back.
Reverie keeps a quiet history of your manuscript as you write, so you can. You don’t switch it on, and you never have to save a version yourself.
How it works
As you draft, Reverie takes a snapshot of your manuscript in the background. It waits for a natural pause rather than recording every keystroke, and during a long unbroken stretch it checkpoints every few minutes on its own. There’s no notification and nothing to click. The page stays exactly as it was.
The history lives in your manuscript’s own folder, in a reverie folder kept out of your way. It travels with your work, so if you copy the folder to a backup or another machine, the history comes with it.
Getting something back
When you want a passage you cut, open Recover with ⌘⇧R, or from the Manuscript menu.
Recover shows the passages you’ve removed and haven’t put back anywhere, newest first. Text you merely moved to another spot doesn’t show up here, because you didn’t lose it. What’s left is the writing that’s genuinely gone from your draft.
Type a few words you remember and the list narrows to passages that contain them. Choose one and Reverie drops it back in at your cursor, ready to keep or trim again. Your originals on disk are never touched until you save.
What it’s for
This is a safety net for cut prose, not a log of every edit. It won’t show you a wall of diffs or ask you to manage versions. When you wonder where a passage went, it hands the words back.