Folian Beta0.1.0-beta.14
21 October 2026
Light mode, a clearer writing experience, manuscript exports, and deeper Story Bible and planning tools—with optional AI that proposes while you decide.
Improvements
- New Light mode alongside Paper and Dark for a clean white writing canvas and neutral application chrome.
- A simpler Home highlights your current writing, one next step and useful progress.
- Simplified Create Project flow keeps advanced setup optional while the manuscript stays central.
- Cleaner manuscript navigation keeps chapters and scenes compact with search, collapse and reordering.
- Your Files and Help → Where is my manuscript? explain local project storage and export paths.
- Export full manuscripts, chapters, chapter ranges or scenes as DOCX or Markdown.
- Expanded AI-assisted development for Characters, with reviewable suggestions before anything joins the project.
- Expanded AI-assisted development for Locations, with the same writer-in-control review flow.
- Relationship development as structured Story Bible work inside the same project.
- Canon development with reviewable proposals—AI proposes, you decide what becomes canon.
- Timeline development to grow chronology as part of your writing project.
- Planning development for beats, threads and supporting structure alongside the manuscript.
- Improved Chapter planning and Chapter briefs for clearer direction before you draft.
- Reviewed missing-field proposals so gaps in Story Bible and planning can be filled deliberately.
- Inline Chapter decisions that save once to your chosen destination.
- Improved Chapter AI source and context integrity, preserving paragraph and list boundaries.
- Editing that follows the selected chapter or scene instead of losing your place.
- Source-aware History for clearer review of what changed and why.
- Safer proposal review before accepted changes land in the manuscript or Story Bible.
- Reviewed development acceptance and recovery improvements for retried requests.
- Desktop recovery backups use verified snapshots and include local files.
Known issues
- This is a Beta. Features may change during development. Maintain backups of important work.
- Windows is not yet available. This build is for Apple Silicon (arm64) Macs running macOS 12.0 or later.
- Optional AI features require your own provider API keys. Folian does not bill for external AI usage.