PocketAuthor review
PocketAuthor gives you a writing desk you can open before creating an account. I’d use it for the first scene or a rough chapter outline. The important bit is what happens when you close the browser or move to another computer.
Keep a copy you can open elsewhere
The public desk keeps a recovery copy in the browser on that device. PocketAuthor’s guide says to download or copy anything important before changing devices or clearing browser data. I’d save a separate copy as soon as the draft was worth keeping. When I want to start comparing revisions of an established chapter, Scrivener’s snapshots offer a way to keep those versions alongside the manuscript.
Move the draft into a book project when you’re ready
PocketAuthor lets you bring a local draft into a signed-in workspace. The help centre also covers importing a manuscript you already have. It advises checking the detected chapters against your original before relying on the import. Once the text is stable, the publishing guides explain how ebook and print editions can share one manuscript while keeping their files and metadata separate.
Anabel’s take
I’d start with a single chapter, download it at the end of the session and open that copy somewhere else. When I had enough chapters to move them into a project, I’d check the breaks one by one. That’s the moment when I’d want a book workspace around the writing.