Features
Every major feature, in detail.
Sgeulai is still in development, so the frames below are placeholders — each one names the exact screen it will hold once there's a build to capture it from.
01 — Layout
The window is divided the way the work is.
Binder on the left holds your manuscripts, broken into parts, chapters and scenes, with the Story Bible beneath them. The editor sits in the middle with whatever you selected. The inspector on the right explains it — every analysis tool describes itself there in three parts: what it is, how to read it, and what to do about what it says.
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The full main window: binder expanded on the left, a chapter open in the editor, inspector open on the right.
02 — Story Bible
Everything you know about the book, beside the book.
Characters, places and threads live as records beside the manuscript, not in a separate app or a stack of notecards. Four views — Full, Compact, Necessities and one more — show as much or as little of a record as the moment calls for, and coloured marks beside a blank field show what's still missing.
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A character record in Full view, with several fields filled in and at least one blank-field mark visible.
03 — Wikilinks and backlinks
Link as you write. See where it's used, from either end.
Mention a character or place in the manuscript and Sgeulai offers to link it — no separate step, no breaking your sentence to go find the record. Every record's Notes tab shows its backlinks in return: everywhere it's mentioned, in prose, notes and comments alike.
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A wikilink's preview popover open in the editor, or a record's Notes tab showing a list of backlinks.
04 — Writing aids
Help while you write, tracked once it's used.
Writing Tools, Antidote and Harper sit in the editor alongside inline comments. When an AI edit touches a passage, it's marked in the margin — so a page that had help still shows, at a glance, exactly where.
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A paragraph with an inline comment open, and an AI-edited passage marked in the margin.
05 — Analysis tools
Sixteen ways to read what you actually wrote.
Pacing, repetition, dialogue balance and more — every view drawn from the manuscript itself, not a guess about it. Each one opens in the editor pane with its explanation waiting in the inspector beside it.
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One analysis view full-screen in the editor — the pacing or dialogue-balance chart is a good first choice.
06 — AI that reads, not writes for you
It reads the manuscript. You decide what's kept.
Point Sgeulai's AI reading tools at a chapter and it proposes Story Bible entries drawn from what's actually on the page. Nothing is written down without your approval — every proposal waits for an accept or reject before it becomes part of the record.
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The AI review screen: proposed Story Bible entries with their accept/reject controls visible.
07 — Import and export
Brings what you already have. Leaves how you need it.
Import from Scrivener, Plottr or an EPUB and the structure comes across with the text. Export to DOCX, PDF, or a clean Shunn-standard manuscript that carries no branding at all — the way a submission is supposed to look.
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The manuscript's import/export menu open, showing the Scrivener, Plottr and EPUB commands.
08 — History
A real-world timeline beneath the story.
Import a spreadsheet of dated events, or add them by hand, and lay the real world's timeline beside your scenes and chapters. It shows up right where you're writing — so a story set across decades stays straight without a separate chart to maintain.
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The History band beneath a chapter or scene, showing a few dated real-world events.
More detail than fits on a page.
The help documentation covers every one of these in full — including the eight or so smaller tools that didn't make this list.