Writezy

Patch NotesSee what's new and improved in Writezy.

Nov 12

Your AI can set up an imported bookOn Pro, after you import a book, ask your AI app to set it up: folders of empty character and place documents beside it, their names, how they're connected, and the timeline. It still can't write in your documents or bring text in.

It makes folders now, so character sheets don't end up loose on your canvas
It does up to 50 at a time, so you approve a few changes instead of hundreds
In Claude or ChatGPT, refresh the Writezy connector to get the new tools

Each canvas is its own bookI keep each book on its own canvas, and I didn't want Book 2's characters lighting up in Book 1. Now each canvas keeps its own aliases, timeline, relationships and maps.

Two canvases can each have their own Mara
An alias only lights up in documents on its own canvas
The timeline, the constellation and maps show the canvas you're on
Relationships and map pins stay inside one canvas. Old ones that cross still work
Settings > Aliases has a canvas picker when you have more than one
Deleting a canvas takes its aliases, eras and maps with it
The AI connector knows about canvases too. Press Refresh in your AI app to pick it up

Import a whole bookAlready wrote a book somewhere else? Settings > Import brings it in from an EPUB, a Word file or text files, split into chapters in its own folder. You check the chapters before anything is saved.

Untick what you don't want, rename chapters, or join and split them first
Several files at once become one book, a chapter each
Title pages, contents lists and Project Gutenberg's license come in unticked
Word (.docx) files can be dragged onto a folder or the canvas now too
PDF isn't ready yet
On Pro, your AI app can set up the characters, places and timeline after. It still can't write in your documents

Card videos play by themselvesA video on a reference card plays by itself now on a map pin, in the constellation and in a document's Details, whatever your autoplay setting says. On the canvas it still follows Autoplay canvas videos.

Misc bug fixesA picture you drop on the canvas or into an album no longer blinks when its upload finishes, or when you zoom in and it sharpens.

Nov 11

Eras and reference cards load small pictures firstEra backdrops, the era editor and reference cards now use a small copy of their picture when that's all they need, so they show up almost at once.

Pictures you upload just for an era or a card get a small copy too
Eras and cards you already have get theirs the next time you save them
Pictures an AI adds are stored like the ones you upload, and Pro still keeps the original

Pictures load fasterMany pictures you add are 5 to 10 times smaller now, with no difference you can see, and the timeline, maps and reference cards start showing pictures sooner. I was saving a lot of uploads at full lossless size by mistake. Sorry about that one.

Pro still keeps the photo you added, untouched
Pictures you added before today stay as they are for now
Maps show up before their pins' names have loaded, and the pins drop in after
Reference cards load a small copy when the canvas is zoomed out, and the sharp one when you zoom in

Nov 10

Reference cards in the constellationSelect a document in the constellation and its card is the reference card now, picture and description on top, relationships underneath. Same card as the canvas and the map.

The pencil opens Edit card, so you can add a picture or description right there

Files and Canvases are tabs nowThe left panel on the canvas has a Files / Canvases switch at the top, with the search right under it. The canvas row took up a lot of room above your files.

Canvases are stacked with bigger pictures and their whole names
The search filters whichever tab you're on, and + for a new canvas sits next to it

Oceans, rivers, planets and moonsPin size is just Pin now, a menu, and a pin can be more than a region, a place or a spot. I wanted a star system to work as well as a world.

Land and water: ocean, river, mountain, forest
Space: sun, planet, moon
Each has its own symbol on the map, and oceans, forests and suns are named like regions

Videos on reference cardsA reference card can show a short video now, not just a picture. It plays the same way canvas videos do, everywhere the card shows up.

Pick one of your videos, or upload an MP4, from Add an image or video (or Change) in a document's Reference card
With Autoplay canvas videos on it plays by itself, otherwise hover over the card (or tap it on a phone)
Same rules as the canvas: Pro, MP4, up to 50MB and 17 seconds
Drag it to choose what stays in view, same as a picture

A pin's card is its reference cardClick a pin and you get the same card the document has on the canvas, with its picture and description. Preview document is the little arrow at the bottom now, like on the timeline.

Esc closes the preview first, then the card

Edit a pin's card from the mapThe pencil on a pin's card opens Edit card, so you can give a place a picture and a description without going back to the canvas.

Pins you can tell apartRegions, places and spots each have their own mark now, not just a size. And every name sits on a pill, so you can read it over a busy map.

A region is a dashed ring, a place a dot in a ring, a spot a diamond
Names are faint until you hover or click their pin, then solid

More than one map, and names you can readWith only one map there was no clear way to make a second, sorry about that one. And on a detailed map the pin names got lost in the picture.

All maps is always in the left column on a map now, even if it's your only one. New map is the last slide
Hover over a pin, or click or tap it, and its name sits on a solid pill

History moved into WritingHistory is the last section of the Writing tab now, instead of the little clock at the end of the tabs. Four tabs squeezed Connections too much.

Nov 9

A Connections tab in document settingsRelationships, Timeline and Maps have their own tab now, called Connections. Details was getting long, and those three are all about where a document sits in your story.

The tabs are Details, Writing, Connections, and History as the clock at the end
Sections you'd left open are still open

Profile and settings from any screenProfile moved to the bottom of the left rail, and it's there on every screen now, not just the canvas. I got tired of going back to the canvas every time I wanted to change a setting.

Off the canvas it's the last icon behind the little arrow
It opens the same panel from the left, and the page moves over to make room
Go back in settings takes you to the screen you came from
Esc closes the panel and keeps you where you are

Sections: group cards on the canvasDraw a box around some cards and give it a name. Grab the name and everything inside comes with it.

Make one from Cards > Section, or select some cards and press the section button at the end of the bar (works on phones too)
Only the name shows. The box appears while you move it, or when you press Edit to resize it
Drag a card in or out and an outline shows where it lands
The name can sit left, middle or right, in three sizes, sans or serif
Deleting a section never deletes what's in it

Drag a card off the edge and the canvas followsHold a card against any edge of the screen and the canvas slides that way, with the card still in your hand. No more drop, pan, grab again.

The closer to the edge, the faster it goes. Move back in and it stops
Works with a group of cards, an image with its pinned notes, and on touch screens
Also fixed: in a group, the other cards lagged behind the one you grabbed, and off-screen ones didn't move until you let go

Your AI edits the right descriptionAsking your AI to change a character's description could edit a hidden note on one of their names instead, so the card stayed the same. Now it always changes the document's own description, the one in Details and on its cards. It never touches your text.

Connected before today? In ChatGPT, open Writezy at chatgpt.com/plugins and press Refresh
In Claude, remove the connector and add it again

Edit a card right on the canvasSelect a reference card and press the new pencil in the bar to open its card settings without leaving the canvas.

Add, change or remove the picture, drag it to pick what stays in view, and rewrite the description
It's the document's card, so every card for that document updates too
Small cards now show up to three lines of the description, like the bigger ones

Reference cards that moveChanging how a reference card looks animates now instead of jumping.

Full picture style: the picture grows to fill the card and the words slide down onto a blur
Switch back and it all folds back into place
Hide the picture and it blurs out as it folds away. Show it and it grows back in

Full picture reference cardsSelect a reference card and the new style button turns it into a poster: the picture fills the card, with the name and description on a soft blur at the bottom.

The words go dark on a bright photo and white on a dark one, so they stay readable
Press it again to go back. It's per card, so mix them however you like
I took the Open button out of that bar to keep it calmer. Double-click a card to open its document

Hide a card's picture or tagsSelect a reference card and there's an eye and a tag button in the bar. The eye folds the picture away and the tag button hides the type and status.

It's per card, so one character can be a big portrait and another just a name and a line
Every button in that bar says what it does when you hover it now

Reference cards on the canvasThe card you made for a document can live on your canvas now: picture, name, description, type and status.

Open Card in the toolbar, choose Reference Card and pick a document
Comes in Small, Medium and Large (S, M and L work too). Double-click it to open the document
It always shows the document as it is now, so change the picture once and every card follows
Deleting a card never touches the document. Deleting the document takes its cards with it

Nov 8

Reference cards for your documentsOpen a document's settings and there's a new Reference card section above Aliases. Give it a picture and a line or two: who this character is, what this place is like.

Pick a picture from your canvas, an image folder or a fresh upload, and drag it to choose what stays in view
The card at the top shows how it looks while you type
Your connected AI can set it when you ask, and reads your description first when you ask about a character

Your AI can read your mapsIf you've connected ChatGPT or Claude, it can see your maps now, pins and all. It can tell you when a journey doesn't add up, or which places never made it onto a map.

It can rename and describe a map, make a pin a Region, Place or Spot, and take a document off a map once you say so
It won't put pins down or move them, because where things go is your call. It sends you a link that opens the map ready for you to click
In ChatGPT, press Refresh on the Writezy plugin to get this

Maps, round twoA few changes after the first day.

The icons over a map sit on the same glass as the canvas toolbars, so you can always see them
The map's name moved to the bottom right, and the description moved into Map settings
Light mode gets the same vignette as dark
A new button hides the toolbars for a clean screenshot (Cmd or Ctrl + backslash). Esc or a click brings them back
Document lists on a map show which folder each one is in

Show zoom controls means everywhereTurning off zoom controls in Settings now hides them on the timeline, the constellation and maps too, not just the canvas. The keyboard shortcuts still work.

MapsUpload a map of your world, a city, or the deck of a ship, and pin your documents on it. It's the new icon under Timeline.

Big maps are fine: up to 80 MB and 10,000 × 10,000 pixels, sharp however far you zoom in
Every pin is a document, in its colour. Click one to see what you wrote about that place or person
Make a pin a Region, Place or Spot and names show up as you zoom, like a printed atlas. You can also pin from a document's settings
It moves like the canvas: same keys, same pinch
Free gets one map, Pro gets 50

A quieter left columnAway from the canvas, the left column shows just search and the canvas now, with a small arrow under them.

Hover the column and Relationships and Timeline slide in. On a phone, tap the arrow
Click the arrow to keep them open on every screen until you click it again
The view you're in always shows, and the canvas itself still shows everything
There's a new timeline icon too

Nov 7

Send a document to a folder from the toolbarSelect a document on the canvas, press the new folder button, pick a folder, and it goes straight in at the end of the list. No more dragging it across the whole canvas.

Only regular folders show up, since albums are for pictures
If a move ever fails, the document stays on the canvas instead of disappearing until you reload

Nov 5

Pro keeps your original photosWritezy saves a smaller copy of every photo to keep things fast, so if that was your only copy, the full-quality one was gone. On Pro, the original is kept now too, untouched.

Open a photo and press Download original to get it. The canvas still shows the small one
Up to 50 MB a photo, and it counts toward your 5 GB
If you leave Pro, your originals are kept for when you come back
Starts with photos you add from today

Nov 4

Downloaded pictures show a preview againA downloaded WebP was getting called .png, so your Mac couldn't preview it. Downloads now get the ending that matches what's inside, like Battle.webp.

Cleaner names for your picturesNew pictures and videos don't end in .png or .jpg anymore, so IMG_2041.png just shows as IMG_2041. Older ones keep their names, and downloads still save with the right ending.

Nov 3

Download saves the picture nowDownload on an open picture or video used to just open it in a new tab. Now it saves it, with the name you gave it. Chrome and Edge ask where to put it, and other browsers download it like any other file.

Your AI can sort your albumsIf you've connected ChatGPT or Claude, it can make albums, rename them, and move pictures between them. Ask it to give each character their own album and let it do the sorting.

A moved picture keeps its description, tags and the documents it belongs with
It knows albums are for pictures and folders are for documents, so your chapters stay out of your mood board
In ChatGPT, press Refresh on the Writezy plugin first

Nov 1

Sharper photos in your albumsThe small previews I added to speed things up made album photos look soft until you opened them. That was my doing, and it's fixed: you see the preview right away and it sharpens as the real photo comes in.

Scrolling photos slide under a soft blur that carries the title now, instead of getting cut off in a dark fade
On a tablet or computer, they stay clear of the icons on both sides

A calmer closed book, and your AI can set up your EPUBThe closed book just shows your word count underneath now, and the blurred cover behind it is gone, so the cover gets to be the cover.

Book details opens like a document's settings, with the page pulling back to show the menu
Picking a cover tells you the size to aim for: 1600 × 2400 pixels
Your connected AI can read and change everything in Book details, from the author and blurb to the typeface and chapters, and set the cover from your images
In ChatGPT, press Refresh on the Writezy plugin first. Downloading the EPUB is still your button

Changes to ProI've been giving a lot away, and I'm one person paying for the servers, so Pro has changed. It's still $6 a month, and you can pay $60 for a whole year now.

Pro does more: 10 canvases instead of 3, 5 GB of storage, and all your version history
Turning a folder into an EPUB and uploading new video are Pro now. Any video you've already uploaded stays
Free still does almost everything: your documents, the constellation, the timeline, the book reader, and exporting every document

You can delete your accountThere was no real way to do this before, which wasn't good enough. Settings > Account has a Delete account button now.

It takes everything with it: your writing, images, history and sign-in
If you're on Pro, it stops your plan too
There's no undo, so download anything you want to keep first

Version historyEvery document has a History tab now, next to Details and Writing. I kept deleting scenes and wanting them back a week later.

A checkpoint saves when you come back after a break, and every half hour while you write
Turn on "Show what's changed since" to see what you cut and what's new
Restoring never loses what you have now. That goes into History too
Free keeps the last 7 days. Pro keeps everything and lets you name your own snapshots, like "before the big rewrite"

Pinch to zoomYou can pinch to zoom on your phone now: on the website, in settings and the help guide, and on review links. The canvas and the editor keep their own zoom and text size controls, because page zoom fights with them.

Your cursor stays where you left itPause after typing a name and your cursor used to jump back in front of it, so your next word landed mid-sentence. It stays put now. Sorry about that one.

Typing inside a name doesn't eat it anymoreTyping one letter inside a highlighted name used to replace the whole name. Now the letter goes where your cursor is and the highlight comes off, so you can actually fix a name. Undo brings the name back, and Backspace inside a name still takes all of it, on purpose.

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