What's new in Novelcrafter

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

Chat Extractions

• Added a button to toggle “keeping” all extractions (previously each entry had to be toggled individually)
• Added support for lots more edge cases

Other stuff

• Added support for advanced model parameters (minP, topK, repetition Penalty,…). These are only available for some OpenRouter models right now.
• The system defaults now includes the scene POV in text rewrite prompts
• You can now export single codex categories
• When editing a custom scene POV it now shows a list of existing POVs to choose from
• The codex now sorts names using numerical sort (so 1,10,60 instead of 1,10,60)

Nothing user-facing, just internal updates to reduce error rates in certain cases (e.g. leaving novelcrafter running in the background with an expired session/login).

• Chat messages containing code blocks now get properly interpreted as prose (That means you can now extract data from chat messages that previously had code blocks)
• Your codex list can now be sorted by color as well (still by name within that color)
• Added support for context.nextScene custom prompting functions
• Original error message is now being included in OpenRouter errors.

Blockquotes are here!

You can now select paragraphs to be styled as block quotes (this will also export properly to markdown as well as .docx/word files).

Custom Prompting

• Add context.codex.all function
• Add support for context.wordsAfter
• Add context.wordsBeforeAcrossScenes function
• Show per-message word counts in prompt preview/debugger

Other

• You can now see the word count of collapsible sections in their action menu
• Fix incorrect word counting of editor selection (for text that contained highlighted words)
• Make global codex entries clickable in beat validation (for those with no or short description)
• Improve loading of matrix view with lots of entries, as well as larger manuscripts
• Various other improvements and fixes

• Added support for Claude 3 Haiku
• Updated system prompts to include other Claude 3 models too, where missing
• Various other bug fixes and improvements (NC should be a bit faster to load now)

• Allow selecting from existing author / pen names when creating a new novel
• Added “Atkinson Hyperlegible” as 3rd sans-serif font
• Added prompt preview to default scene summarization (in case you don’t have a custom prompt for those)
• Return markdown when calling scene.content (this also now excludes “AI excluded” sections for both, summarization and chat)
• Fixed text replacement prompts not getting proper selection context (some codex entries would not be pulled into the AI prompt)
• Fixed word export not supporting collapsible sections
• Fixed markdown export not supporting collapsible sections

• You can now easily copy all text within a section to your clipboard!
• Improve chat message extraction (certain edge cases with bold names separating content)
• Fixes series meta data not being editable after creation
• Fixes some save issues with label editing
• Various visual tweaks/fixes
• Various other bug fixes and improvements