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.
• Synonyms and the thesaurus The popover on a word, the panel behind it, following a word through WordNet's relations, and why a click can edit your manuscript.
• The writing inspector Synopsis, In Scene, Notes, Metadata, Snapshots, Readability, Grammar and Style — the eight tabs beside a chapter or scene, and looking up and pinning a record beside the prose.
• The style check The Style tab's nineteen kinds of finding, how strict each is, ignoring one, importing your own word lists, and the Style Report's weakest chapters.
• Notes & citations Footnotes and endnotes from the Format menu, the citation picker and its Zotero tab, importing a bibliography, and the settings that decide how both come out.
• Idea Tools Five thinking prompts for whichever record you're stuck on.
• The analysis tools Twenty-five views on the book you have actually written, plus a couple more from the browsers.
• When a tool shows nothing A chart that says nothing to draw, or a column left blank: which field it's waiting for, and where to fill it in.
• Plot Board The grid of plot lines against chapters — moving beats, Auto-Populate, Tension, Themes and what crossover marks.
• Thread Map Reading the converging-storyline chart, choosing what's on it, and what clicking a dot, a line or a name each do.
• Family Tree Directional parent, sibling and spouse connections, drawn as a generational chart with dashed lines flagging data that doesn't form a clean tree.
• Timeline The Visual ruler with History drawn beneath it, the Braid chart of flashbacks and flash-forwards, and the five other tabs.
• 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.
• The Web Clipper A bookmark that clips a citation, a quoted passage and reference pictures from any webpage straight into the Story Bible.
• 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.
• Sgeulai Pro The upgrade: what it adds, who already has it, buying it, Restore Purchases, and which two features are on the Mac for now.
• 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.