Automatic Chapter-Document Linking/Title refresh

It is incredibly time consuming to go through and reconnect every individual chapter after adding a chapter to the outline. If the other chapter titles haven’t changed, why can’t you program the system to keep the document connections simply resequencing the chapter numbers? If you have 40 chapters and add one in the middle (or split a chapter), manually reconnecting 41 chapters is intensely slow and is a wasted hour that is spent grumbling about Sudowrite and considering finding other software to use that doesn’t work against my process, especially when the feature is already half there because “once links are set, they remain saved even if you edit or move content within your project.”.

P.S. It would be lovely if the document names would also auto-refresh to match there connector chapter in the outline. :)

From chat help for additional context:

• Automatic linking happens only when new chapters are created from the Outline or from the project’s + New menu. In those cases, Sudowrite links them sequentially, attaching the Outline’s chapter summary and connecting to the most recent related chapter.

• Manual linking is needed when a new document is added later or if chapter order or structure changes after creation. You can manage this by opening the More (•••) menu next to each document’s title and using the Document Linking Menu to connect or disconnect chapters as needed.

For now, reconnecting documents must be done individually, but once links are set, they remain saved even if you edit or move content within your project.

If you’d like to see a feature that automatically refreshes or reestablishes all document links after Outline changes, I’d recommend sharing that feedback through Sudowrite’s in-app support chat — the team actively collects ideas like this for future updates