What's new in Novelcrafter

• 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)

New Payment Provider for New Subscribers

Starting today, we’re switching to a different payment provider for Novelcrafter.

• More Payment Options: Credit Card, PayPal, Google Pay and Apple Pay are all supported (depending on device and region).
• Localized Currencies: No more conversion fees as you can now pay in your local currency (where supported)!
• Localized Pricing: See the full price, including VAT on the pricing tables/pages. The previous system only calculated this during checkout.
• More supported countries (some restrictions still apply)

If you’re not subscribed yet: You will be prompted with the new payment platform right away, nothing to do here.

If you’re an existing customer: We’ll be migrating subscriptions over throughout April. Stay tuned for updates on this (we’re still in the preparation phase on this).

Other Updates

• Snippets, Summaries and other text boxes will now no longer remove extra spacing in between paragraphs
• Various updates and fixes to the new Appearance Heatmap. Should be more accurate now.
• Fixed trailing slash issues in custom Base URLs for Ollama integration
• Fixed word boundaries/character detection for Spanish and many other languages

New Review Tool: Appearance Heatmap

This heat map shows how often codex entries appear in scenes. You can use this to find clusters of scenes that mention the same characters, locations, or items. That way, you can see which parts of your story are most connected.

We have a couple sort modes prepared, however this feature is still a bit experimental. Please give feedback if things are a bit wonky or missing!

Bigger Codex Alias Editor

A nifty feature of the codex is that you can create entries to highlight specific words or passages. This allows you to immediately see issues with your writing (e.g. AI-isms, or overused phrases you tend to go to).

This update now expands the alias box when you collected quote a few alternatives, and even lets your sort the list.

Other

• Fix extended MythoMax model ID for OpenRouter (8k context)
• Toppy has now been added to system text replacement prompts
• Optimize sidebar resize performance

• You can now copy a chat thread into your clipboard (JSON, YAML, Markdown). That way you can copy stuff over into Notion for example!
• Added new “linear” format to novel.outline: Use {novel.outline("linear")} to get a different format (one heading level, not nested via act then chapter) that separates your scenes as well
• novel.outline also no excludes scenes that have been marked as “AI excluded”, which should help in some cases
• Other various fixes and improvements