Changelog

Pro-Level SEO Audits

Content Audit now gives Pro users a deeper look at their sites.

• Site-wide SEO and content health checks
• Image checks for missing alt text and oversized images
• AI discovery checks like structured data, llms.txt, and AI crawler access
• Advanced page signals for users who want more detail

Clearer Hobby-Level Audits

Hobby audits are now easier to read and more focused on what writers need most.

• Cleaner audit summaries
• Better page-level guidance
• Key checks for titles, descriptions, headings, content length, and links
• Less technical noise up front

Blog Outline and Generation Updates

The blog outline and generation interface has been refreshed.

• Smoother setup for blog drafts
• Clearer controls while building outlines
• Better flow from planning to generation

Smarter AI Chat

AI chat has been upgraded to give more accurate responses and make its sources clearer.

• Improved answer quality
• Better use of workspace context
• Responses can show which documents were read to answer your question

Minor Updates

This release also includes smaller fixes, UI polish, and general improvements across Scribeist.

Timeline

The Timeline Board gives Mythos a dedicated place for story history, character arcs, world events, and major plot moments.

• Timeline events can include dates, descriptions, colors, images, linked entities, and connected manuscript chapters
• Entity timelines show the events tied to a specific character, location, group, object, or lore entry
• Event images and colors make important moments easier to recognize across timeline and calendar views
• Timeline views have been simplified by replacing the Gantt and Track views with the new calendar view

Calendar

Timeline events with dates can now be viewed on a calendar.

• Month, week, and day views are available for dated events
• Custom calendars support custom month names and month lengths
• Event ranges can use start and end dates for events that span more than one day

Canvas

Canvas now has new node types for connecting more of your workspace visually.

• Timeline Event node — place story events directly on the canvas alongside notes and ideas
• Link node — add references, sources, inspiration, or external material to a canvas
• Mythos node — bring characters, locations, groups, objects, and lore entries into a canvas

Text Highlights

You can now highlight text directly in the editor.

• Choose from ready-made colors or pick your own custom highlight color

Notion Connection

Scribeist now supports Notion.

• Connect your Notion workspace to Scribeist
• Export Scribeist documents to Notion

Google Drive Connection

You can now connect Google Drive to Scribeist.

• Connect Google Drive to your writing workspace
• Export Scribeist documents to Google Drive

A More Organized Workspace Dashboard

Your workspace dashboard is now much easier to keep tidy as your projects grow.

• Create folders to group related workspaces together
• Move workspaces into folders for cleaner organization
• Pin important workspaces so they stay easy to reach
• Pin folders too, if you want key groups at the top
• Rearrange both workspaces and folders to match the way you like to work

Why This Helps

Whether you keep separate spaces for novels, blog projects, research, or client work, the dashboard now gives you a better way to structure everything without feeling cluttered.

• Keep active projects front and center
• Tuck away older or less active work into folders
• Create a dashboard layout that feels more personal and easier to navigate

Small Change, Better Flow

This update is all about making everyday organization feel simpler, faster, and more flexible.

BYOK Plans

You can now choose BYOK plans in Scribeist.

BYOK stands for Bring Your Own Key. If you prefer, you can connect your own OpenRouter setup and use that for AI requests instead of relying on Scribeist AI credits.

• New Hobby (BYOK) and Pro (BYOK) plans are now available
• Your own OpenRouter key can power AI features across Scribeist
• You still keep the same plan features as the matching Hobby or Pro tier

This gives you more control over how AI usage is billed while keeping the same writing workflow inside Scribeist.

Search & Replace

Search and replace is now available to make editing faster, especially in larger drafts.

• Find repeated words, names, or phrases quickly
• Replace one match at a time or update multiple instances more efficiently
• Clean up drafts, fix naming changes, and make broad edits without manual hunting

Blog Generation Redesign

The blog generation experience has been redesigned to feel cleaner and easier to use.

• A more streamlined flow from idea to outline to draft
• Better organization while setting up blog generation
• A more polished interface for reviewing and continuing generated work

The goal of this redesign is simple: make blog generation feel more guided, less cluttered, and easier to return to later.

Small Improvements

• Continued polish across AI and workspace flows
• Better clarity around billing options for standard plans vs BYOK plans

Research Board

The Research board is a dedicated space for collecting and organizing everything that feeds into your writing.

• Note types — capture ideas as Facts, Quotes, Notes, or Stats, each color-coded for at-a-glance clarity
• Pin notes — keep your most important references pinned to the top
• Import files — drag in PDFs, Word docs, CSVs, Markdown, and plain text files directly into your research library
• Save links — bookmark any URL as a research reference with one click
• Filter & search — filter by note type, tag, or a keyword search across all your notes
• AI research search — ask a question and let AI surface answers from your research notes
• Model selection — pick your preferred AI model, shared across Research and Chat

Smart Context (Workspace Chat)

AI chat now knows what's in your workspace — not just the document you have open.

• Ask questions and get answers drawn from everything you've written, across all your documents
• Reference characters, themes, or ideas from anywhere in your project without copy-pasting
• The more you write, the more useful the AI becomes

Improvements

• Research and Chat share the same model preference — switch once, applies everywhere

New

• Added AI model selection with support for Claude, Gemini, Grok, and GPT
• Added MythoMax as a model option for Novel workspace only
• Added workspace themes, now available in Workspace Settings

Fixes

• Fixed exporting so document formatting is now preserved

UI Changes

• Updated UI styling and interactions across key workspace flows

Minor Bugs & Improvements

• Resolved minor bugs and made small improvements

Site Connection (Blog Workspace)

• Connect your live site to any blog workspace
• Topic Clusters — pages grouped by keyword similarity
• Internal Link Map — find orphan pages and linking opportunities
• External Link Summary — see which domains you reference most
• Content Audit — per-page SEO health checks (title, meta, H1, word count, internal links)
• Internal link suggestions in the editor
• Editor now checks for topic overuse on your site for SEO

Mythos Improvements (Novel Workspace)

• Mythos characters current state is now more accurately tracked
• Mythos characters current locations and who they are with is now more accurate
• Due to the new accuracy mythos tracking now uses AI credits (very small amounts)
• Mythos tracking with AI can be turned off in settings

Other Improvements

• Stop button in AI chat
• AI text replace now works inline
• More import file type options (.kpf, .docx, .pdf)
• Reformat button in the editor
• AI-powered meta description generation

Fixes

• Fixed AI replace text behavior
• Fixed export and publishing
• Aliases are now properly tracked across the manuscript alongside the main entity name
• General performance and UI improvements

Timeline Board

• Removed auto-generated timelines
• New dedicated Timeline Board for full control
• Connects with Mythos entities and chapters
• Supports multiple timelines per project

Views

• Chronological
• Entity Arcs
• Chapter Breakdowns
• Gantt Chart

Writing Analytics

• Track writing across all or specific workspaces
• Word count and net word count
• Session length and writing streaks
• Daily, weekly, and long-term trends
• Writing goals with automatic pace tracking

Visuals

• Contribution calendar (heatmap)
• Volume and productivity charts

Availability

• Writing Analytics: Pro feature
• Advanced Timeline views: Novel workspace, all paid plans

Happy writing ✨

Added

• New entity types: Organizations, Lore, Items, Events, and Custom Entities
• Color-coded entity highlighting across the manuscript
• Parent / child relationships for structured hierarchies
• AI now understands entity relationships

Improvements

• Dedicated fields per entity type
• Better structure and visualization in Mythos
• Improved voice matching for AI responses

Fixes

• Entity-related bug fixes
• General performance improvements