Sgeulai Help
Sgeulai keeps a manuscript and everything you know about it in one place. This is how the parts fit together.
- Getting started Making a project, bringing a manuscript in, and what the three panes are for.
- Your first manuscript Start to finish: a manuscript, a part, a chapter, a scene, and one of every Story Bible record type.
- The binder Parts, chapters and scenes; moving several chapters at once.
- The Story Bible Records for the people, places and threads in your book.
- Full, Compact and Necessities Four amounts of record, and what the coloured marks beside a blank field mean.
- Wikilinks and backlinks Linking as you write, and how backlinks show up on the other end — in prose, notes and comments alike.
- Writing aids in the editor Writing Tools, Antidote and Harper, comments, and how AI-edited passages are tracked.
- The writing inspector Synopsis, In Scene, Notes, Metadata, Snapshots and Readability — the six tabs beside a chapter or scene.
- Idea Tools Five thinking prompts for whichever record you're stuck on.
- The analysis tools Sixteen views on the book you have actually written, plus a couple more from the browsers.
- History The real-world timeline drawn beneath your story — importing a spreadsheet, adding events by hand, and where it shows up beside a scene or chapter.
- Research Highlights Bringing Apple Books highlights in, browsing them, and inserting a quote — with its source — into the manuscript or a note.
- Reading the manuscript with AI What gets written down, what waits for your approval, and why the difference matters.
- The Claude API key Getting one, paying for it, where it goes, and exactly which commands need it.
- Settings reference Every Settings tab, and the few controls whose name alone doesn't tell you what they do.
- The Tools menu Prose formatting, entity-link and Wikipedia scans, Continuity Check, and the three Story Bible reset commands compared.
- Find and Find & Replace Three Find commands, and what actually protects you during a project-wide replace.
- Importing and exporting Scrivener, Plottr, EPUB, Vellum, PDF, DOCX and backups.
- Keyboard shortcuts The ones worth learning.
Sgeulai is Scottish Gaelic for storyteller, pronounced roughly
SHKAY-lee.