Desktop
Every author who has worked on a long project eventually invents the same ritual. You open the writing app to check word count. You open your outline somewhere else to see which chapters are done. You check your lore notes to see how much canon you’ve actually written down versus how much is still living in your head. You pull up a spreadsheet to track deadlines. Then you sit there looking at six windows trying to answer one question — where does my project actually stand right now?
Desktop answers that question.
It’s the first module in Ishvana. Not the editor. Not the Legendry. The project overview tab. When you open the app and you’re not sure what to work on today, or you’ve been away for a week and need to remember where you left off, or you want a single place to check whether your draft is moving and which books need attention — Desktop is the surface that tells you. Every tracked book, every completion metric, every active alert, every recent edit, and a sticky-note scratchpad, all pulled together from the rest of the app.
Desktop doesn’t generate anything. It doesn’t store anything that lives only here. It reads the state of your whole project — your outlines, your documents, your Legendry, your plot tracking, your plants and promises — and shows you the distilled view. Fix something in another module and Desktop updates to reflect it. Everything here is a mirror.
This section covers every piece of Desktop in depth. If you’re looking for the short version, it’s this: Desktop is the overview dashboard. You check it to see where you are, then you go to the module that actually needs your attention.