oStorybook can be used to prepare and manage a work such as a book, a play, a film script, etc. Its primary purpose is to offer authors a complete and well integrated tool to manage their work. But oStorybook can also be used in the academic field to allow the structured analysis of a literary work. By convention the rest of this document will mainly refer to the context of a play, "Le Medecin malgre lui" by Molière, which is available for download, but all functions remain relevant in other cases. The logical structure of a book, as used by oStorybook, is as follows:

• A book consists of one or more parts
• Each part is composed of one or more chapters
• A chapter consists of one or more scenes
• In general, a scene takes place in a single location, but oStorybook allows description of scenes taking place in several locations
• A scene shows one or more characters in action.
• The action can also contain objects
• General layout can follow different threads, or points of view.

• A scene may or may not be connected to a chapter
• Scenes not assigned to a chapter will not appear when displaying structured views (book mode, playback mode, Storyboard, etc.), nor will they be exported
• All the scenes that are to appear in the final book must therefore be attached to a chapter
• A new scene is not automatically assigned to a chapter. The chapter should be selected via the editor (see below), or by using the "Manage Scenes" view and dragging the scene into the chapter
• A scene is usually not the same from one chapter to another, so two scenes can have the same title and/or the same number, provided that they belong to different chapters. Chapters are divided into scenes (the smallest element of the chapter). Whenever the point of view changes, or one of its elements changes, make a new scene
• Dividing the chapters into scenes allows optimum use of these rules and the Memoria tool.

In this manual the different elements composing the book are termed "components". Thus, when it comes to a character, for example, it can be invoked as a component.

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