Three views.
One script.

Three views of one script. Two format the way paper does. One formats the way a screen can.

screen views · print unchanged⌘⇧1 · ⌘⇧2 · ⌘⇧3

The same scene, three wayslabels and shortcuts read from the app's own toggle

Arqo⌘⇧1structure in type, not indents

INT. ROOFTOP - NIGHT

MIRA stands at the ledge, lit from below. DEV waits by the door.

MIRA

(quietly)

I didn't think you'd come.

DEV

Neither did I.

He does not move from the door.

No indents. A cue is a small bold label in its own colour, dialogue runs full width under it, and a scene opens with a quiet number in the margin. Your scenes sit in a rail alongside.

Flow⌘⇧2the page unrolled, marks where it breaks

INT. ROOFTOP - NIGHT

MIRA stands at the ledge, lit from below. DEV waits by the door.

MIRA

(quietly)

I didn't think you'd come.

DEV

Neither did I.

He does not move from the door.

Industry format, indents and all, as one continuous column. A thin mark shows where each printed page ends, and there are no sheets to scroll past.

Classic⌘⇧3the printed page, typed on

INT. ROOFTOP - NIGHT

MIRA stands at the ledge, lit from below. DEV waits by the door.

MIRA

(quietly)

I didn't think you'd come.

DEV

Neither did I.

He does not move from the door.

White pages, numbered, exactly as they will print, and you type right on them. Highlights and revision bars come off, so it reads like paper.

What the Arqo view changesand what it never touches

on the screen

indents: gone. Weight, case, size and colour say what a line is.
character cues: a small bold label in the speaker's colour. Colours go by order of first appearance, so the two people in a scene never share one.
scene headings: no rule above them. A quiet number in the gutter opens the scene.
the gutter: a rail of your scenes: number, slug, a dot for each speaker. Click one to jump. It never edits.

on the page

print and PDF: the industry page, margin for margin. Arqo is a screen view; print never learns it existed.
FDX and Fountain: the same file goes out whichever view you wrote in.
page breaks: placed by the same paginator in every view. Arqo and Flow mark them, Classic shows them.
your script: switching views saves nothing and changes nothing. It is one script, read three ways.

How it typesthe Final Draft hands work here

Tab

changes this line. It never adds one.

Tab turns the line you are on into the next kind of line, scene heading to action to character to parenthetical to dialogue to transition, then around again. Your cursor never moves.

Enter

the next line, or a way out.

After a character, Enter gives you dialogue. After dialogue, a character. On an empty line, it hands you back to action.

⌘1 to ⌘6

the Final Draft numbers.

Jump straight to one element the way your hands already know. Same numbers, same order.

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Three views.One script.

Three views.One script.

Three views.
One script.

Three views.
One script.