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The Snowflake Method Using Tabs

Use Google.Docs New Feature to Write and Navigate Your Novel

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People have sprinkled various ways to use Randy Ingermanson's Snowflake Method of developing a novel: Excel Spreadsheets, a three-ring binder, Plottr software, and so on. Really, paper and a pen would be enough. However, a writer who wants to experiment with the Snowflake Method with different mediums has many options. All of them are great.

I have one more way: Google.Docs with tabs. Someone may have already developed this, but I couldn't find it. I went ahead and created my own template. Maybe someone will find this way of using the Snowflake Method to create a novel helpful. Let me know.

Download the template: Snowflake Method in Google.Docs with tabs.

Message me if you think this document would be helpful or not.

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Keeping Tabs

How to use tabs in Google.Docs for writers

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I use Google. Docs for my novel WIPs (Work in Progress) and recently I noticed a new feature on the side of the screen. Tabs.

“What are tabs?”

Well, I looked it up and found that these tabs can be a great help for organizing a novel. For example, I’ve used the tabs function to create a snowflake document for two of my novel projects.

Tabs came out in October 2024, but I just ignored this function until now, but I wish I had jumped on it sooner.

The biggest and best advantage of this feature is this: all documents for one project are located in one file. This makes scrolling around potentially hundreds of pages easier. It reminds me of Microsoft’s OneNote, which I’m a fan of. So yes, tabs on a Google.Doc sheet is like creating a digital notebook.

Let’s go over the basics of adding tabs to a Google.Docs sheet:

If it’s not already, open the tabs panel by clicking on the “show tabs and outlines” icon.

The first tab is automatically generated.

Click on “Tab 1” and give it a name.

To create another tab, click on the plus sign. Name the new tab.

To create a subtab, click on “tab options” symbol of the parent tab. Click “add subtab.”

Name the subtabs.

Here’s a YouTube video that further explains how to use tabs in Google.Docs:

For my novel projects, I’ve found the tab function to be helpful. One screen, different tabs: characters, scene summaries, rough draft, and so on. The tabs make navigating through a large document easier.

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Cuuute... An Easter Egg in Google Docs (by Amit Agarwal)

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oh my god that nerdfighter book for henry is honest-to-god the most adorable, greatest, best thing I have ever seen on the internet

Aww thank you! I tried submitting it to Effyeahnerdfighters, but never got a response, so most people haven't gotten to see it. Feel free to use the google .doc to print it out and share it with your favorite little future nerdfighter!