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Worldbuilding Groupings - Collapse, Filter and Tags

Worldbuilding is a great feature, but it quickly becomes unwieldy. I have a couple of ideas that would greatly improve it’s usability. Give the option to Group by the Role/Category. Each group would be collapsible, making it easier to see other types. My series involves a lot of travel, so there are many entries for Cities. I would quickly be able to collapse or expand all Cities. Allowing search or filter within this group would also be huge! Add a new Tags field. Let user use other bible entries as tags. Also allow custom tags to tie entries together. Allow filter Show and Hide options by tags. Now I can quickly see all locations, characters, events, etc. that are connected to a certain city, book, subplot, etc. Example: Tag “Willie’s Tools”. His toolbelt has 15 tools. I could on this tag and quickly see or hide all of his tools as needed.

Grampsville 3 days ago

💡 Feature Request

Image attachments

I'd love it if we could attach images directly to World Building entries. Like, when I'm building a character, location, faction, or magic system, it would be super helpful to just drop in reference images (concept art, photos, mood boards, etc.) right there in the entry. It makes it way easier to keep the visual concept in mind while writing, and the AI could potentially reference those images too when generating descriptions or scenes. Even just basic image upload + display in the world bible would be huge for me. Doesn't need to be fancy at first. Thanks! This would genuinely level up the world-building experience.

Stryder about 2 months ago

5

💡 Feature Request

Chapter outline to chapter scenes

When turning an outline into a chapter scenes you can set it to make X amount of scenes or you can just let it make how many the Ai wants like it does now. It would help because for example if I need 7 scenes for a chapter but the Ai keeps only making 4, it can be a way to make sure it spits it up into 7 scenes just like I need them to be.

Mario Logan 8 days ago

1

💡 Feature Request

Text to Speach

I know this has been requested before but I think its worth reiterating. For authors its a very valuable too to hear their prose read back to them. We catch not only line edit errors but things that are not quite quantifiable in a document editor. I’v tried browser plugins and most are crap. either my api key dosent work or it cannot handshake with the service provider. So far my best option is Eleven Labs Reader app for my phone. It has the best most natural sounding narration I’ve found so far. But it is a bit of a hassle to go through the steps to copy, paste into a word doc and then load it into the reader app. The Ideal thing would be just to highlight text in sudowrite and have a little icon in the pop-up show a headphone icon. One can set up the voice in the settings. I’m sure you could work a deal with Elevenlabs to integrate their technology into sudowrite. Yes I know it would cost something but I think it would be worth it.

Jbavar@gmail.com 9 days ago

💡 Feature Request

What is Up with Muse Being So Preachy?

I have noticed that there’s some weird undercurrent where every now and then Muse gets judgy about what is being written. I wrote a scene involving sex work, and the chat agent got real fixated on whether or not HR would approve of what was depicted or whether the W-2 forms would be correct or whether the scene was just using language of employment but was not depicting actual employment. I’ve had a similar problem where the agents—Muse is my almost exclusive choice in any place that I can choose it, so if these other agents are NOT Muse that’s a significant thing—got real judgy about my queer characters, their queer relations, family relations, kinks, and a lot more. Got lectured about “this wouldn’t be optioned for Hallmark or streaming services” and basically told that my scenario was not vanilla enough. I really should have done the write up on that session of writing because it made me real mad, and I had to walk away from Sudowrite for a few days to cool down.

Ian Mclean 15 days ago

3

🗳️ Feedback

Hard Lock Out Mechanics

I have run into issues where the chat agent that is engaged for editing a storybible or outline element targets instead changing chapters without a clear UI/UX indication of what was being edited or why. In the specific case where this was the biggest problem, the agent had been told to resolve a contradiction in its characterization of a storybible/outline element, and instead of fixing that, it rewrote the prose in the chapter that was correct to conform to its incorrect characterization. The changes didn’t appear in the obvious places, so I had to go through the chapters to locate where the changes had been made. The changes were marked in purple, but this does not allow for differentiation of the those changes from other purple text that is in process from previous unrelated edits. When I set an agent to working on the outline of a single chapter, the agent should not be able to abitrarily decide to start editing the manuscript of unrelated chapters or established storybible elements. I can see the value in that being a feature that can be enabled, but in general, the agents need to be more focused because any non-trivial writing project will be too much context for them to meaningfully use without dilution or significant operational confusions. I am aware of the “sudowrite can’t see this” toggles on some of the storybible elements, but this is more basic than that. I should be able to fix the exact context that the agent is allowed to edit, and the agent should not have the ability to override that. Certainly not silently.

Ian Mclean 16 days ago

1

🗳️ Feedback

Markdown editor for bible / Import Export options

I know your editor uses .md files behind the scenes. I use markdown regularly in my “real” job. It would be very helpful to me if I could have an option to directly edit in Markdown. I would also like to be able to import and export text in .md format. By the way JSON and/ or XML would be great for character and worldbuilding import/export.

Grampsville 11 days ago

2

💡 Feature Request

Export Entire Folder as Word Document

Folder exports- can we please have facility to export a folder in its entirety (to Word). I imagine this is a relatively simple change? I have other folders and want a complete story which is just in one folder as opposed to a whole project file. I use another folder for expanded outlines and don’t want all of that in my exported draft. via: AndySnowdon in Discord

An Anonymous User 27 days ago

3

💡 Feature Request

Outline Format for Outline

This seems too obvious. I like to work out my story in outline form before I convert it to sentences or prose 1 Meeting of the Club A. Minutes from last meeting B. Roll Call C. New Business i. proposal 1 ii. a different proposal D. etc. this way I can instantly see my sequence and adjust as needed. From there I would go back, add notes and details to fill it out. Then I use the OUTLINE to write my rough. I can easily compare and crosscheck. I wish the Outline section of the Bible ( and the Scenes section in draft) would support this format. Another suggestion for outline: quit trying to number the “chapters”! Or at least number them dynamically as they are arranged! If I have 10 chapters and decide I want a new one between 3 and 4, I should not have to renumber them all. Maybe I want my outline to be scenes or smaller segments. This way instead of 10 numbered chapters, I can create 40 or 50 segments, and am able to easily reorganize them.

Grampsville 14 days ago

💡 Feature Request

Bring back Sonnet to Excellent mode

Please bring back Claude Sonnet latest model as a proper writing model in Excellent mode. Or in a new dedicated mode that lets me paste in a piece of reference text for Claude to draw on when generating. I really miss that reference-text feature, because giving Sonnet a sample to match makes a huge difference to output quality. I’ve been using Sudowrite for 2 years now, and the past couple of months (ever since Sonnet 3.7 removal) have been such a struggle. I’m sorry, but Ballad 1.1 just doesn’t cut it for me (and neither does Muse). Thank you!

Gaia Bellaine 14 days ago

6

💡 Feature Request

Let us have beats again. SERIOUSLY.

Beats were one of the reasons I bought sudowrite. I miss beats so much, I could just write what I was feeling and see where sudowrite could take it, it gave more creativity and flexibility. But now, it’s forced structure. :( Bring back beats. Or at least let it be a choice. With scenes, anything more than 3 gets wonky. As in when I try to do more than 3 scenes, it gets cut off sometimes. The beats were better as you could do more, and add more detail without it being clumped together. Beats were one of the reasons I bought sudowrite. I miss beats so much. I could just write what I was feeling and see where sudowrite could take it, it gave more creativity and flexibility. But now, it’s forced structure and 9/10 times the scenes that are created are literally reworded/copied pastes of what i was forced to write. With beats, I could just draft an idea and it just tossed what it thought I wanted to go but it would open the doors for creative possibilities. Or give us the ability to toggle between different versions of features/sudowrite. I prefer some of the older features honestly because I am someone who has ADHD. I would rather have the power to toggle sudowrite to keep beats vs scenes the separated bible vs the newer one long section. (I liked my separation) Make chatting with Higher Quality be less expensive credit wise. it’s a credit bleeder. Make 3 months / 6months subscriptions. Allow us to choose two options within chapter generator; Scenes and/or Beats. I rather miss the features of Beats because it helped created a more natural flow with integrating through scenes and dialogue, and made editing much more easy. I would create sometimes 50-100 beats to create a chapter, with the new update with muse, it’s now like 2 scenes formulating 2000+ words of useless reiteration, cliches… it just feels like a mess. I have to either heavily edit or just not use it at all. Just a lot of credits being wash down the drain. Pleeeeeease bring beats back.

Renna/ Aria about 2 months ago

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💡 Feature Request