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Your first project#

The three ways to start a screenplay in Nabu — and where you'll find them.

In Nabu, a project is one screenplay. Everything starts from your dashboard, the home screen you land on after signing in.

Your dashboard (home)#

Your dashboard lists all your screenplays as cinematic cards — each card shows the project's title and author, and (if you imported a script with a title page) a cover graphic. Click any card to open that project in the editor.

  • Continue where you left off. Once you have more than one project, your most-recently-edited screenplay rises to the top under Continue where you left off, with a Continue Writing button. If a project's wizard is still in progress, its card shows how far along it is and a button that takes you back in.
  • Sort your list. Once you have several projects, a small sort control lets you switch between recent (last edited) and title (alphabetical).
  • Archived projects sit in a separate strip below the main grid. Each shows when it was archived and a Restore button.

Across the top of the dashboard you'll find New Project, which is where every new screenplay begins. The Knowledge button beside it is marked Coming soon.

The New Project splash — the three ways to start#

Click New Project (or, with no projects yet, Start Your First Screenplay) and Nabu shows you a full-screen splash with two doors and a link under them:

  1. Develop an Idea — From a logline or a scene to a full outline. This opens the guided wizard.
  2. Write from Scratch — Gives you a quick Title, Author, and optional Genre form, then drops you straight into a blank screenplay in the editor.
  3. Import Project — Imports a screenplay, treatment, or outline you already have.

Start from a blank page#

Choose Write from Scratch and Nabu asks for three things:

  1. A Title for your screenplay.
  2. An Author name.
  3. A Genre (optional) — shapes your starting structure.

Click Create Project and Nabu opens your new, empty screenplay in the editor.

Start with the guided wizard#

Choose Develop an Idea and Nabu creates an Untitled Project for you and opens the wizard. Nisaba — your AI writing partner — interviews you about your vision and carries the heavy structural work while you steer the creative direction.

For a full walkthrough, see The wizard.

Uses your plan: The wizard draws on your plan's usage. Bigger steps show a confirmation card with the estimated share of your plan before they start. See How usage works.

Import a script you already have#

Choose Import Project to import an existing file — a Final Draft file, a PDF, a plain-text or Fountain screenplay, a treatment, or an outline. Importing goes through Nabu's upload-and-review flow (the Intake): you drop in one file, Nabu reads it and works out what it is, and then you confirm before it becomes a project.

For the full step-by-step, see Importing a script. The same window restores a Nabu Bundle you exported, as a new project — see Restoring a Nabu Bundle.

What to do with a project card#

Each project on your dashboard has a small ⋮ menu. Hover over a card to reveal the ⋮ handle (top-left), or right-click the card:

  • Open — Opens the project in the editor.
  • Rename… — Opens a dialog to give the project a new working title.
  • Duplicate — Makes a complete copy of the project as a new screenplay.
  • Export… — Takes you to the project's export page (see Exporting).
  • Copy link — Copies the project's web address to your clipboard.
  • Archive — Hides the project from your main grid and stops any of its background AI work.
  • Report a bug… — Opens a form for telling the Nabu team something went wrong.
  • Delete — Permanently removes the project. Nabu asks you to confirm first. Only the project's owner can delete it.

There's also a quick Archive button revealed at the top-right of a card on hover.

Warning: Delete cannot be undone. If you only want a project out of the way, use Archive instead — archived projects are fully recoverable.

Good to know#

  • The featured "Continue" card only appears with more than one project. If you have exactly one screenplay, it shows in the grid without a separate hero card.
  • The wizard works on your phone too. Tapping Develop an Idea takes you straight into the wizard.
  • You'll only see the welcome splash once. After your first time, Nabu lands you straight on your dashboard.