November 25th, 2024

Improvement

Fix

Faster, Better, Smarter

We recently shipped several improvements to Sudowrite. Here’s a quick look:

New, improved GPT-4o! — Last week OpenAI announced improvements to GPT-4o’s creative writing ability, intended to make its prose more natural, engaging, and readable. We’ve added that new version of GPT-4o to the Write button and Chapter Generator. It’s also now available inside of Plugins (as gpt-4o-2024-11-20).

Better efficiency, fewer credits — We also made some adjustments recently that have made all OpenAI models more credits-efficient, resulting in a 30% credits savings anywhere OpenAI models are used.

Faster document loading — The team has made some backend improvements that make individual documents inside of a project load slightly faster when selected.

🐛 We also fixed some bugs!

  • We made all of the top toolbar buttons, including the dropdown options, better available to screenreader users.

  • We fixed an issue with the word count in the Synopsis section of Story Bible. It will no longer be tripped up by formatting.

  • Duplicated projects will now correctly read as “Copy of [Project Name]” rather than using the same exact project title.

  • Duplicating a project inside of a series folder would create duplicate Characters and Worldbuilding elements across all projects in that series folder. We fixed that, so it will no longer create unwanted duplicates.

  • Similarly, moving a project out of a Series folder and then back into it would result in duplicated Characters and Worldbuilding elements. We fixed that too.

  • Toggling between documents inside of a project too fast could cause lag, where the selected document in the left bar would loop and flicker. We fixed that, so document selection is now more robust.

  • Finally, we fixed an issue with the Tutorial project appearing as "Untitled" for new users. New users can now expect one project titled Tutorial Project and a second empty Untitled Project on account creation.

Thanks to everyone who brought these bugs to our attention! Please continue to flag issues to us using the Report a Bug option under the ? menu.