Settings reference

Settings is seven tabs, not a flat list. Most controls explain themselves in place — this page is for finding which tab something lives on, and for the handful whose name alone doesn't tell you what they actually do.

Author

You holds your author name, website and biography. Usual Imprint holds your publisher, city, "printed in" line and logo. Credits — editor, cover designer, interior designer — is easy to miss since nothing else on this tab hints it's there, but it feeds the same copyright page the imprint fields do.

Appearance

Interface theme (light, dark, or follow the system) and manuscript typeface are single pickers. The rest of the tab is about a Story Bible record's own screen, not the manuscript: separate font and size choices for Record Headings and for Field Labels & Values, a label column width slider, and a toggle to tint that column. The "Preview" section underneath is not a manuscript preview — it's a live sample record, rendered with whatever you've just chosen, so you can see the effect before leaving the tab. Two buttons — Use the Sgeulai pairing and Back to the System Font — set every font choice on the tab at once.

Writing

Six sections, and the first is the one worth calling out by name:

The Page

This is the live editor's on-screen display — line length ("measure": Narrow, Comfortable, Wide, or the full window), typewriter scrolling, and dimming every paragraph but the one you're in. It has nothing to do with export. Typeface, size, line spacing and margins for the manuscript itself are set from Tools ▸ Prose Formatting… instead — see The Tools menu.

Writing Aids

Over-used-word highlighting; part-of-speech colour-coding, with its own checklist for which parts of speech count (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs); and every toggle behind how AI-edited text gets detected and marked — see Writing aids in the editor for what each one actually does. Two of these toggles only matter once their parent is on: detecting bulk replacements as AI needs AI-edit highlighting on first, and asking about unattributed pastes needs AI-paste detection on first — both are simply disabled until then.

Footnotes and Citations

Footnotes vs. endnotes and their numbering; author–date vs. notes style for [@citekey] references.

Grammar & Style

Turns on Harper, picks your English dialect, and lists which categories of finding it's allowed to flag — Spelling, Grammar, Style, Punctuation, Repetition, Suggestion — so you can silence one kind (Style nags while drafting, say) without losing the rest. See Writing aids in the editor for how a finding actually gets fixed once Harper flags it.

Pictures

One toggle and one picker: whether a large picture gets scaled down on import, and to what longest edge (1024, 2048 — the recommended default — or 4096 pixels). This is about file size, not where a picture sits on the page; placement is a right-click option on the picture itself, in the editor.

Export

Page (PDF) sets trim size, margin and gutter. Contents & Page Numbers (PDF) adds a table of contents, page numbers, and PDF bookmarks. Manuscript Layout covers part headers, scene titles, and the text marking a scene break (default "# # #" — leaving it blank reverts to that default rather than exporting no marker at all).

Linking

One toggle, and its name undersells what it does: Link every mention automatically is not a display preference — turning it on means that the moment you link one occurrence of a name to a Story Bible entity, Sgeulai rewrites every other occurrence of that name across every chapter and scene in the project into a wikilink as well. It edits your manuscript text. See Wikilinks and backlinks for what a link actually does once it's there, and The Tools menu for running the same sweep manually, on demand, instead of leaving it automatic.

AI

Hidden until AI analysis is turned on anywhere in the app. The tab's own top switch — Read manuscripts with AI — is that on/off control: this is the one place manuscript prose can leave your Mac, and nothing downstream of it runs until it's on.

Below that: your Claude API key (kept in the macOS Keychain, not the project file) and a read-out of which engine is currently active — Claude or the on-device Apple Intelligence fallback.

Claude Model

Automatic mode follows the newest model in whichever tier you've chosen, so a premium release Anthropic ships later never silently raises your bill without you having picked it. Pin a specific model by hand instead, and automatic mode stays within that model's own tier from then on. "Check Now" refreshes the model list on demand.

A full manuscript analysis run is three stages, not one: a fast, cheap pass indexes the cast, your chosen model reads each chapter, and a third pass draws the whole-book picture from those summaries. Picking Haiku keeps every stage on Haiku — the cheapest, fastest combination, at the cost of the richest reading.

Wikipedia Facts

Which model does the extracting when a Wikipedia lookup fills in a record's fields — Haiku (the recommended default) or Sonnet.

Usage

Hidden with the AI tab. AI Usage & Cost shows tokens and estimated dollars for the last run and the running total, with a Reset Usage Totals button — this clears the running count for good, with nothing to restore it from, so treat it as a deliberate reset rather than a routine click.

Claude Credits is a place to log what you've actually topped up, so "Estimated remaining" means something: a button out to Anthropic's own billing page, a field to record a top-up amount, and a history of what you've logged, each removable. Removing a logged top-up is immediate and changes the remaining-balance math right away — it deletes the record of the top-up, not any actual credit.