01PERSONAL PROJECT
Personal AI Writing Tool
Bring manuscripts, four-level outlines, characters, story maps, graphs, long-term memory and custom AI workflows into one local writing workspace, with the author approving changes.
THE COMPLETE TOOLKIT / v0.1.10
A whole world beyond the draft.
From your first reference file to a complete novel. Explore the tools already available in NovelFlow.
Your writing desk
Begin with an existing manuscript or a new idea.
Projects, volumes & chapters
Keep your manuscript and reference material organized.
- Create a project with a title, genre, synopsis and writing goal.
- Create, rename and reorder volumes and chapters; switch chapters from the sidebar.
- Separate manuscript volumes from reference volumes for outlines, worldbuilding and style notes.
- Track chapter, volume and manuscript word counts without counting reference material.
- Start with an empty project, or build your world and outline before chapter one.
Editing & reference reading
Keep everyday writing tools within reach.
- Write in a plain-text editor with visible editing, saving and saved states.
- Combine automatic saving with manual saves after important revisions.
- Find matches and replace one occurrence or all occurrences to standardize names and terms.
- Select a passage as the scope for AI diagnosis, expansion or polishing.
- Switch reference chapters between Markdown editing and formatted previews of headings, lists, quotes and tables.
Smart import & source organization
Bring manuscripts, setting collections and reference folders into a project.
- Import TXT, Markdown, DOCX, text-based PDF and structured NovelFlow JSON.
- Import individual files or scan folders, recognizing chapter headings and splitting manuscript content.
- Preview manuscript, outline, setting, reference and ignored items with classification explanations and items needing review.
- Correct classifications individually or in batches before committing the import.
- Review additions, replacements and retained content on re-import, preserving manual edits.
- Parse, deduplicate and index large collections in batches with file-level progress.
Four-level outlines
Plan the whole book and the details of each chapter.
- Organize plans at book, volume, story-arc and chapter levels.
- Edit and save author outlines and AI references separately, without automatic replacement.
- Extract chapter outlines from existing text to organize an older manuscript.
- Generate chapter references from higher-level outlines, then edit and adopt them.
- Index outlines with sources and versions for writing tasks, and restore deleted nodes from the recycle bin.
Your story world
Keep characters, rules and events connected to evidence.
Settings & world rules
Maintain a structured reference for your fictional world.
- Maintain locations, factions, world rules, objects and events by category.
- Create, edit, search, import and export settings; inspect category counts and recent changes.
- Record location hierarchies and access conditions, plus faction positions, members and changes.
- Describe conditions, costs, limits and exceptions for rules, and ownership and state for objects.
- Connect events to time, location, participants and outcomes; distinguish plans from established events.
- Inspect sources, pending candidates and conflicts while retaining author-approved settings.
Character profiles & knowledge
Track who a character is and what they know at this point.
- Maintain identity, aliases, appearance, portraits and background.
- Record goals, motivations, personality, habits and speaking style.
- Track abilities, constraints, costs, first appearances and current state.
- Distinguish character knowledge, author knowledge, reader knowledge and unrevealed information.
- Keep relationship direction, type, stage, linked chapters and textual evidence.
Foreshadowing & story maps
Follow unresolved threads and the geography of your story.
- Track foreshadowing from planned and planted through development, pending payoff, resolved or abandoned.
- Link setup chapters, evidence, planned payoff ranges and the passages that resolve them.
- Maintain map backgrounds, regions, location coordinates and submaps.
- Record routes, directions and distances, linking geography to chapters or time.
Knowledge graphs & evidence
Turn relationships scattered across your text into an inspectable network.
- Build entity networks for characters, places, organizations, objects, rules and events.
- Extract from manuscript, references, outlines or combined sources, scoped to a chapter or range.
- Extract in batches with progress, preserving source evidence on nodes and relationships.
- Review conflicts, merge aliases and duplicate nodes, and correct entity types.
- Edit relationships in 2D, inspect structure in 3D, and save and reload graph versions.
Working with AI
From discussion to revision, inspect the evidence and the result.
Discussion, expansion & drafting
Choose the assistance that fits the task at hand.
- Discuss characters, settings, plot and the content of the current page.
- Diagnose progression, conflict, information leaks and character voice.
- Explore next-step directions with conflicts, costs and connections to foreshadowing.
- Expand or polish selected text with explicit length, facts and preservation requirements.
- Draft candidate chapters from outlines, viewpoint, target length and plot requirements.
- Bind separate default workflows for chat, diagnosis, direction, expansion, polishing and chapter generation.
Memory, retrieval & context ledger
Keep long-form material locally and select relevant context for each task.
- Search manuscript text, outlines, settings, graphs, memories and reference sources.
- Combine text matching, semantic retrieval, graph relationships and task rules.
- Review new facts as memory candidates before approval, with sources and conflict notices.
- Categorize, search, pin, archive and restore memories, with versions and usage records.
- Inspect context usage, source slots and the material actually sent in a request.
- Select priority references, inspect omitted or trimmed material, and distinguish plans from established facts.
Layered review & focused revisions
Inspect the issue and evidence before deciding what to change.
- Generate chapters through planning cards, candidate drafting, rhythm adjustments and review stages.
- Review language patterns, narrative naturalness, continuity and facts, followed by an independent final review.
- Retrieve earlier text, settings, outlines and memories for specific continuity claims.
- Generate focused patches, inspect before-and-after differences, and accept or reject them.
- Retry from saved stages when checkpoints are valid, retaining failure states and evidence.
Reviewable Agent actions
Turn explicit editing requests into reviewable changes in your project.
- Candidate cards show the target, differences, scope, sources and review status.
- Confirm manuscript writes, appends, selection replacements, chapter creation and title changes.
- Approve changes to author outlines, AI references, settings, character profiles and foreshadowing.
- Approve workflow and Skill updates, task bindings and non-sensitive interface preferences.
- Accept, skip, rewrite or give feedback; inspect tool receipts and undo controls.
- Reload saved conversations and progress after interruption to recover completed actions.
Make it yours
Keep your writing method reusable and your manuscript recoverable.
Skill library & customization
Turn genre techniques and personal style into reusable rules.
- Search by name, category and enabled state, and read each Skill in full.
- Enable or disable built-in Skills, create and edit custom Skills, and restore built-in configurations.
- Configure applicable Agents, stages, priority, input conditions and output requirements.
- Load matching Skills by task, Agent and stage, with receipts showing what was used.
- Coordinate general rules, project Skills and current requests while respecting author instructions and approved settings.
Visual workflow studio
Compose writing processes and compare their actual results.
- Drag and duplicate nodes, connect compatible ports, edit properties and validate workflows.
- Combine input, context, retrieval, Skill, Agent, model, review, scoring and conditional routing nodes.
- Add patch, author approval, write and output steps; save or autosave the canvas.
- Configure supported node failure strategies such as bounded retries, fallback models and checkpoint recovery.
- Highlight active nodes and inspect workflow versions, time, tokens, remaining steps and tool receipts.
- Compare candidate text, individual scores, evidence, time and tokens across workflow runs.
Models & writing preferences
Choose your models and tune the editing environment.
- Manage providers, API endpoints, model names and locally stored credentials.
- Use model checks to validate configuration, then test the connection with a short message.
- Switch models from the selector and choose configurations by task and workflow.
- Adjust theme, editor font size, indentation, autosave delay and automatic mirroring preferences.
- External models are used through your configuration; Agents cannot directly access or change keys, endpoints or manuscript directories.
Versions, export & recovery
Keep a history of important changes and a path to another device.
- Commit described versions and inspect added, removed and changed content.
- Restore historical states and recover chapters, outline nodes and supported graph items from recycle bins.
- Export manuscript ranges in a selected format, preserving chapter order, titles and paragraphs.
- Create and restore project backups, checking volumes, chapters, outlines, settings, graphs and memories.
- Move to a compatible app version on another device, reconfigure credentials and verify data and task recovery.
01CURRENT CAPABILITY
Skill Store
Skills are managed inside the local desktop app.
- Filter by name, category, and enabled state
- Enable, disable, or select skills for the next task
- Create and edit custom skills or restore built-in skills
- A skill cannot bypass author confirmation and write directly to the manuscript
02CURRENT CAPABILITY
Memory system
The author decides what becomes long-term memory.
- Create memory candidates from imported text and the story graph
- Activate a candidate only after author confirmation
- Categorize, search, pin, archive, restore, and delete
- Retain source, version, and usage records and flag conflicts for review
03CURRENT CAPABILITY
Local file import and automatic classification
Automatic recognition provides a reviewable and editable classification suggestion.
- Choose one file or scan a local folder
- Read TXT, Markdown, DOCX, PDF, and structured JSON
- Recognize chapter headings and split manuscript text
- Show classification reasons and confidence
- Correct story-material items to manuscript text before submission
- Complex PDF layouts may require manual review
04CURRENT CAPABILITY
AI writing and layered review
Generated text remains a candidate until the author accepts it.
- Gather chapters, story material, character state, foreshadowing, graph data, memory, and author-selected references
- Filter, deduplicate, order, isolate, budget, and record context sources
- Select skills and model settings for the task
- Review language patterns, narrative authenticity, and factual continuity
- Revise evidence-backed issues and return the candidate for author confirmation
SYSTEM MAP / 07 STAGES
Personal AI Writing Assistant · Agent Architecture
From the turn snapshot and context compilation to author confirmation, local commit, and evidence-backed recovery.
01 Writing task and turn snapshot
- Author task
- Single execution plan
- Frozen turn input
02 Session coordination and context compilation
- Current chapter and outlines
- Setting and knowledge relations
- Character state
- Long-term memory
- Skills and tools
- Author material
- Align, deduplicate, order, isolate, budget, and record sources
03 Local import and automatic classification
- File or folder
- TXT / Markdown / DOCX / PDF / JSON
- Suggested class, reason, and confidence
- Author edits and confirmation
04 Skill store, model settings, and candidate generation
- Filter and enable local skills
- Edit custom skills
- User-configured model provider
- Candidate manuscript
05 Layered review and bounded revision
- Language-pattern review
- Narrative-naturalness review
- Factual-continuity review
- Revise evidence-backed issues only
06 Memory, author confirmation, and local commit
- Memory candidate and provenance
- Conflict review
- Author confirmation
- Local manuscript commit
- Long-term memory activation
07 Evidence and recovery loop
- Context record
- Model-call record
- Commit record
- Failure recovery
- Next task