What's new in Novelcrafter

This update fixes a caching issue for disappearing book covers and codex thumbnails.

In the update on May 5th we made a change how images are getting handled. In case your images are not loading properly, try refreshing the page using SHIFT+F5 (in chromium browsers, so that’s Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera…) or CTRL+F5 in Firefox.

You can also right click the refresh button when you’re using Edge, or long-press the button in regular chrome and select the last option:

• Fixes .docx export errors with Google Docs
• When using a phone/tablet, the drag and drop in the plan view is now less sensitive (touch, hold for a bit, then drag to move things around)
• The prompt clone button is now hidden when user is in read only mode (out of trial, no subscription)
• Fix display issues with OpenRouter API key verification (the error message would sometimes still show)
• When using the “Detect Characters” feature on NSFW text via OpenRouter, it will now properly show moderation errors
• Added new novel.pov functions for custom prompts (in case you need access to the global setting)
• Various other fixes and improvements

Major backend update

This update includes massive changes behind the scenes to allow more flexibility and capabilities for upcoming features. While extensive testing has happened, please let us know if something doesn’t work quite as expected.

This also made the following possible:

• Increased the internal limits for text contents (this affects scene summaries, contents, snippets, chats, …)
• Series descriptions are now part of revision tracking, so you can check its history too (only includes new changes after this update)
• Prompt instructions history is now available outside a novel too (previously showed an empty list)

Other changes

• Fix novel exports in .docx format looking weird when opened with Apple Pages
• You can now include or exclude your scene subtitles during a novel export
• Fix vertical overflow of long summaries in manuscript
• Added a link to the OpenRouter activity page in the AI settings
• AI Model lists are now sorted regardless of name casing
• Increased vertical padding for when in typewriter mode
• Fixed inconsistencies in codex entry sorting when using custom instructions
• Fixed “Abort Error” appearing when stopping AI generation
• Fixed random HTML tags appearing when creating snippets or codex entries from text/chat
• Fixed being unable to remove collaborators from novels
• Various other bug fixes and improvements

Second Update

Hotfix for importing large amounts of data / updating many things at once.

• You can now collapse/expand your acts in the plan view (only affects the grid and outline views)
• Fix extra scroll bar appearing in manuscript view
• Fix HTML tags showing in Chat in certain conditions
• Fixes a couple more edge cases with codex entry detection (e.g. fancy apostrophes in text)

Second update:

• Fix restoring custom prompts not persisting after reload
• Internal fixes to subscription synchronization

• Fixes numbering not updating correctly when moving chapters around
• Entries without appearances are now hidden from the heat map
• Fixes some codex entry detection in edge cases (when surrounded by markdown, HTML, …), mostly when mentioning things at the start or end of sentences or paragraphs.
• You can now skip Acts during export to export to Vellum or Atticus in their desired format
• In case you’re having issues with the keyboard shortcuts of Novelcrafter, you can now disable them via the system settings. This only affects the application shortcuts, shortcuts within the editor (e.g. boldening or underlining text still works):
• Fixes display/read issues with some older/legacy snippets (HTML tags were showing)
• Fixes a couple issues when trying to create a snippet from content in your manuscript

New “Literata” serif font

While Bespoke Serif might look nice, it only supports about 130 languages. With Literata we’re now adding another serif font that supports over 530!

This adds proper font support for languages like Russian, Greek and many other from Asian and European regions.

Other changes

• New “Split Act before Scene” action for scenes
• Novels in the novel switcher are now sorted by series index
• Fixed some issues when importing novels that use < and > as dialogue tags
• Various other smaller bug fixes and improvements

Snippet Extraction

You can now extract information from snippets, just like chat messages. This makes it possible to quickly bring a lot of information from an external notion document, or 3rd party chat session into Novelcrafter! When manually typing out an outline inside a snippet you can now easily transfer this into your plan view as well.

Other changes

• Support codex entry aliases in quotes or parentheses during text extraction
• Fix word counting in texts that use em dashes and other edge cases
• Fix codex name word boundaries with apostrophes
• You will now see a list of possible functions you meant to call, if your custom prompt instructions had an unknown function in it.
• You can now copy prompt previews and chat threads into your clipboard as XML as well
• Various other bug fixes and (performance) improvements

• When importing a novel, you can now preview the results before importing it
• You can now change the type of all codex entries at once that got extracted from a chat message
• Fixes being unable to edit local codex references on scenes when in the write/manuscript view
• Various other fixes and improvements

Emergency bug fix after OpenRouter switched model types for the Claude 3 family. You can now use it again (was grayed out before).

Also:

• Copying chat messages via the “copy” button will now copy markdown into your clipboard (was just plain text previously)

Small bugfix release today!

• Fix issue with nested AI selection menu in un-pinned chat threads
• The aliases in a codex entry can now be sorted alphanumerically just like the codex (no more upper-lowercase differences)
• Added visible focus state to interactable list items (for accessibility)
• Fix esc button closing floating panels when inside a dropdown menu (for accessibility)