February 28, 2025

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

You can now enroll for experimental features.
We have a new system where you can try out things we're still tinkering with, or need a lot more feedback on. Check it out in the general app settings!
The update banner will not show right away.
Previously, we bundled a lot of changes together which prevented quick and easy fixes. Going forward, we're doing incremental updates and changelogs will be more along the lines of "what we did this week".

New: Tip of the Day! 📅

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!

Organizational

Added a way to create codex entries from scene summaries (helpful when you're working on your outline first, before filling the codex)
Added a way to collapse or expand all codex categories at once. We also updated the overall layout of the codex settings menu itself.
Add a new "slim" style for the codex - for those that have hundreds of entries, this means a lot less scrolling!
Changed relations on codex entries to use the more compact styling, same with codex preview cards now using the slim styling.
Fixed archived codex entries still appearing in the Matrix view
Fixed Tags from archived codex entries still appearing in suggestions
Various other tiny visual fixes in Matrix and Outline plan views

Improved handling of "provider returned error" messages. The actual cause should now be displayed when available
Fixed overload errors deleting partial chat messages
Finger's crossed, that we fixed the "model (not found)" error inside of chat when retrying a previously broken message

Other changes

Fixed a rare novel loading error that occurred right after you created/imported a new novel. This was basically a timing thing, as the system hasn't caught up yet
Added support for comma-like separators in Tag fields - this should help with people writing in Chinese, Japanese, Korean (CJK)
Fixed codex preview cards not being interactable when shown inside a modal
Various other bug fixes and improvements

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