Let The User Decide What The AI Looks At—Everywhere

Feature Request

A user shouldn’t have to wonder what the AI is looking at, and we should have settings to tell it exactly what to refer to. Everywhere. Other AI programs already utilize this. This feature would nullify it looking at incorrect things, spoilers, or not looking at needed information.

And it shouldn’t be decided by someone else what they think the AI should reference for an author’s work. Style has been left out of referencing for entirely too much when it’s arguably THE most important thing and should impact how everything gets written. As it is, extra work is created because the user has to rewrite every single box or risk all of those cliches and AI-wording being brought in, which it will be if not corrected.

Another issue this solves is conflicting information when we are told the AI does or doesn’t look at something. More than once, a statement has been casually made about a particular element being looked at to generate something, however, we were never told that or even told the opposite prior. As a teacher, this makes it worse because now I’m passing along faulty information. If the user is deciding, there’s no wondering for anyone.

Put it in the hands of the users. A gear icon on each Story Bible box can open up a menu for users to toggle on or off. Want Outline to influence Characters so an arc can be created? Toggle the Characters option on. Want it simple? If a box toggle is on, it influences what you’re generating; if it’s off, the AI doesn’t see it.

As a plus, this also lets the AI read backwards and forwards, resulting in the user being able to best utilize each box for their own workflow. And bonus, there could be a toggle by each document to have it read or not, which is helpful for say a large world-building document or glossary. It’s also simpler and quicker than the three dots menu for continuity.

Example use: Instead of the user needing to create templates and fill out traits, information could be contained in the document, thus allowing yet more flexibility in the user’s workflow.

The icing on the cake would be that if the other tools were hooked up to Story Bible—and for those that currently are—the user would be able to decide what gets looked at. Want Rewrite to see your entire outline so it can foreshadow or callback properly when it rewrites the current scene? Done.

Want Quick Edit or Quick Chat to look at certain documents or Story Bible elements? Toggle it on.

The bottom line is this puts the user in control, and they can decide how much or how little to give the AI while also making it very flexible and upfront about what is being looked at.