This update contains a that reduce the number of updates the app does as you work. Editing codex entries should now be smoother/faster, as well as using AI actions should now be a lot faster as well (less choppy/lagging).

While you were able to say "remember where I left off", that only applied to the exact scene and position, but not how your write view looked like. So going back to it, you always ended up back with "everything". This was annoying. So we fixed it.

You can now always go back to exactly where you left your manuscript, which should help a lot with larger projects.

As some of the performance issues stemmed from the AI interactions, this aspect has been updated and visually overhauled, which in turn made a couple goodies possible!

And yes, this update also fixes the issue of the apply/retry/discard buttons being stuck or keep floating around. That was indeed quite annoying.

You can now filter your codex by both, types and custom categories!

You can now ask the AI to write special HTML/XML for the manuscript editor:

If you ask it to write it will now properly show up as its own section! This makes prompts that suggest changes easier to grasp in terms of its results.

The following attributes are supported:

For example:

This change also helps with a specific bug around using AI in or near blockquotes.

Other than that, this one's a quick bug fix release as there was an issue with importing novels that was introduced in the last release. The importer would just silently fail.

Mostly a bug fix release, to improve overall usability and stability.

Edit: There were a couple issues regarding images disappearing again, those should have been fixed now.

This release contains a ton of fixes when importing novels as (Word) or (Markdown) and also adds HTML export and import support!

We're always happy to help if you encounter any issues with bringing your words into Novelcrafter. Big thanks to those that provided us with files that didn't work (contact us via support in those cases), so we could improve the process for everyone!

As always, we added a couple goodies for our power users:

Today, Anthropic released their new Claude 3.5 Sonnet model (see their release notes here). This release adds the model to all system prompts. In case you have custom prompts, you have to do so manually.

This new version of Sonnet is the same price as before, but outperforms the 5x as expensive Opus model! Same context size as before (200k tokens), but it can remember things much better! It also loves to write a lot more, so if you found Sonnet to produce very short prose, this new version might be right up your alley.

This release fixes tons of issues around rendering messages in the workshop chat. Code blocks are no longer appearing, and tables are also rendering properly now.

For those having very long threads, the chat will also now limit the number of messages that are on display. You can load in more as needed, but it only shows the last 30 messages by default now.

The divider showing the date for long running threads can now be clicked, so you can quickly jump to the beginning of that date.

The message extraction also saw some love and covers a couple more cases where it picked up nothing or content incorrectly. As always, please report any issues in case it doesn't extract things you expected it to pick up!

This release also adds a ton of new instructions you can use in your custom prompts, and contains a couple new keywords to speed things up:

The prompt editor now shows the auto-complete window more reliably, and the tooltips and info for each function have been improved. Some methods now have information about their parameters, as well as examples for how to call them.

New function calls:

On Monday, we released a survey about the state of the Novelcrafter interface (You can visit it here if you missed it). Based on initial feedback, we added a couple goodies in this release!

But first off...

The very first lines of Novelcrafter have been written on June 8th 2023 (does that count as a "birth day"?) While the actual release took quite a while longer, this is where it all began. We're grateful for all the support and wonderful times so far!

Yes, you heard right. This release adds the ability to manage your prompts a lot better. Based on the initial survey data, people that accumulated a large collection of their own prompts are having trouble organizing it all.

You can read more about it here: https://docs.novelcrafter.com/en/articles/9418856-organize-your-prompts-into-submenus

To put your prompts into sub-menus, use a "/" to denote their path:

This is to not accidentally affect prompts like "Dialogue w/ exposition" or other similar cases.

While the prompt manager does not support actual folders (yet!), the menus should now be a lot cleaner!

The new system also allows "one-click" selection of prompts that only have a single model. This was a feature that was previously limited to the text replacement prompts, but now is available in all other places as well.

The "references" tab got a new checkbox to not include an entry even though it's being detected. You can still have it be included by manually adding it to a scene, or by having it be a nested entry.

One example use case where this comes in handy: You have an entry named "hell", but you don't want to pull it in whenever someone says "what the ". Now you can decide where and when that entry gets pulled in (e.g. nest "hell" under "demons" so it only pulls "hell" in if a demon gets mentioned).

The new panel includes descriptions for each setting as well as has a couple more advanced settings now.