This update took a bit of time, but we implemented further internal changes that now made the following possible:

As our first experimental feature, we're introducing a "Tip of the Day" that shows up when you start Novelcrafter in a new window/tab.

Maybe you'll learn about cool features that you've missed so far!

Along with this update, we also updated our Privacy Policy to reflect our addition of early access features and changes in the product metrics.

This update is more on the technical side, but we updated some internals to stream the data in when loading a larger novel project. Previously, projects that have gotten too big (usually by having too many chat messages), would no longer load.

With this change, this should no longer be an issue - but we still recommend cleaning up chats you no longer need and continue to advise against having chat threads with hundreds of messages (or even more).

Happy New Year everyone! Here's our first release of 2025, packed with fixes for all those bugs you helped spot over the holidays:

Those with (really) large codices can rejoice: even though the menu already had search (by just entering the start of the name), it wasn't obvious (all menus actually have this feature, actually!)

As such, there's now an easy-to-reach search box up at the top:

This one needed a bit more testing, but you can now also have a custom codex reference as a codex detail!

Some examples include:

We've been hard at work these past months, and finally have a little holiday present that you all have been waiting for:

Forget about splitting a codex into many pieces, or cramming too much detail into the description box. With custom details, you can now have more control over the individual pieces that make up your story!

For example:

Furthermore:

There are a couple things we haven't managed to finish in time, but will be added soon:

When picking a scene beat, chat or summarization prompt, Novelcrafter will now . This should speed your workflow up quite a bit!

You can now split out instructions that you want to reuse all over the place. No more copy-pasting of things you want to have in all of your copy-editing/critique/... prompts!

Then, to include a component in your prompt, just call them by name!

To make things easier, there's a handy-dandy button for this specific instruction below each component.

With components, it makes it easier for us to add additional features to prompts, since previously you'd have to manually update your own variations when the system prompts changed.

As such, with new calls to components.

Since prompts can now be more modular, we had to update how sharing works. When you copy a prompt, you will now get different options to choose from. Similarly, when pasting a prompt, you can now see a fancy preview, before adding the prompts immediately to your library!