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How can we make Sudowrite better?

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Text-to-Speech and Audible-Style Story Playback

I think one feature that would really help writers is a text-to-speech option that reads our stories back to us. Sometimes hearing the words is just as important as seeing them. Some ideas: 🎧 Audible-style playback of stories 🗣️ Natural AI voices that read chapters aloud 🔄 Background listening while editing or writing ⚡ Adjustable playback speeds 🎭 Different voices for different characters 🌧️ Optional ambient sounds or background music ✍️ Helps catch mistakes, improve pacing, and hear dialogue more naturally I think being able to both read and listen to our stories would help writers connect with their work on a deeper level and make the editing process much more effective.

Elliott “Dose of E-Spiration” Haastrup 16 days ago

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💡 Feature Request

pop-up bar when text is hilighted

is there anyway to make this bar not pop up until AFTER you release the mouse? As is, it sometimes blocks view of the text immediately surrounding the highlighted text. if there is a sentence immediately under the hilited text, the bar covers it. (not a great example because I had a space between paragraphs where I worked, but that whole line would be covered) As it is, the bar immediately pops up when any text is highlighted, even if you’re still highlighting stuff.

Annon 1 day ago

💡 Feature Request

Pulling in documents created outside of platform

I create character sketches and outlines, etc outside of the Sudowrite platform and it would be wonderful to be able to upload those documents and have them populate within the proper areas of the story bible without having to type all the information in by hand each time. Alternatively, since I have carpal tunnel, it would be great to be able to speak this information and any changes I need to make into the platform as well.

Patricia Bumpass 10 days ago

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💡 Feature Request

Series | Story Bible Changes

When I put something in my Story Bible from a certain series, there is nothing I can do to change which series it is . Also, sometimes it just is listed as “Series” instead a certain part in my series. I suppose this helps when it is part of the whole series, but it would be nice to be able to choose and edit this. It would be nice if I could edit which specific series portions that certain characters or other details are sourced from.

Joshua Shakir 2 days ago

💡 Feature Request

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 29 days ago

💡 Feature Request

Overall Making the Interface More Visual

Writers are visual thinkers, and it would be SO helpful to make the app more visual as a whole. Examples of this include: — The ability to photos (ie., book covers) as an image for each title and project folder — Change the outline chapter feature to have a “notecard” view, where chapters can be viewed as individual notecards and moved around more easily without scrolling — In the character section, allow each character to have an uploaded image next to their name so we can visualize what they look like — In the worldbuilding section, allow for images of locations, buildings, lore, etc. Thank you! Appreciate the team.

VB Author 25 days ago

💡 Feature Request

Agentic Chat Shortcomings

With the new agentic implementation, it is now much harder to use Chat to, well, actually chat. I do not really need the agent to edit for me (only when using the Generate or Rewrite functions), and the most frequent use cases for me are general brainstorming and working on specific lines. So, the new chat has a not so funny gimmick when it would write a completely fine and legit response, then scrap it completely and write something like ‘I need to view the manuscript’ or ‘Please switch to Allow edits so I can edit [smth] for you,’ which is just infuriating since I already saw the answer and wanted to do with it what I need. It would be very nice to implement either a switch to toggle back to classic Chat or a classifier model that would decide if the user’s instruct requires agent’s work.

Tm00ne 25 days ago

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🗳️ Feedback

Panel Resize Handle (size increase)

I'd like to request the ability to resize the slider shown in the attached screenshot. I use a 34-inch ultrawide monitor at a resolution of 3440 × 1440, and the current slider is extremely small at that scale. It often takes several seconds just to position my cursor precisely over the handle before I can drag it. An option to increase the slider's size—or simply enlarge its draggable handle—would be a significant usability improvement for anyone using high-resolution or ultrawide displays.

Ultimate Anarchy 20 days ago

2

💡 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 about 1 month ago

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💡 Feature Request