After the start, choose “New...” from the menu “File”. A dialog shows up asking for a file name and a folder.

• Enter a file name (which is also the project name). In this tutorial the name “My First Novel” is used.

• Choose the folder where you want to store your file. “My Documents” may be a good place to start with.

• If you don't want to start with an empty project, choose “Create a Demo file...” from the file menu. Choose a name and a folder. A demo file will be created then which already has some scenes, characters, locations, tags and items defined.

• A note about the file names: Don't use special characters like / \ ? * : and others.
  For more information see this article on Wikipedia.

This is how Storybook looks after the new file has been created:

[1] This area is called “chronological view”. It shows all scenes in chronological order. The first scene has already been created and is shown here.

[2] The object tree shows all objects (characters, locations, items, tags, chapters, scene etc.) hierarchically.

[3] In the area called “Quick Info” all information about the selected object is shown. Since we haven't selected any object so far, no information is shown.

[4] With the zoom slider at the top of the window the view area can the scaled to fit your screen size. If you need a wider zoom range, check the preferences and set a higher scale factor.

Continue with Part 2