Changelog

We’ve made some big updates to Chat very recently, improving both its speed and performance.

Chat responses are now twice as fast - We moved Chat to faster infrastructure this week, cutting response time in half in the process. You should definitely notice it on bigger tasks.

Chat makes fewer mistakes - We've been working hard to improve Chat’s performance where it’s most likely to stumble. Our most recent fixes have reduced error rates by 30%, meaning it’s now far less likely to drop context, misplace an edit, or give up. We’re not done yet, though, and there are more Chat improvements to come.

Rewrite now runs on our in-house model - Rewrite had been using Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet for a while. We just moved it to Ballad, and the results speak for themselves: authors are now 20% more likely to actually use the resulting Rewrite. If you haven’t tried Rewrite in a while, it’s worth another spin.

Actually print your documents - Hitting Ctrl + P or Command + P while viewing the Sudowrite editor used to pop up a blank page and a message about needing a wider browser. Well, good news, folks: it will now print a clean version of whatever document you're viewing.

We just added a batch of formatting improvements that will give you more control over paragraph spacing and make copy/paste more reliable.

Set your own paragraph spacing

There’s a new Paragraph Spacing setting in your account settings (under the gear ⚙️ icon in the upper right). Choose your preferred paragraph spacing, and it applies consistently across your projects—no more hand-inserting blank lines for readability.

Tidy up empty lines in one click

If you (or a prior import) left empty “spacer” lines to provide a visual buffer, a new toolbar button will collapse them for you—either at the document or project level—so you can use the new paragraph spacing settings instead.

Copy and paste that preserves your formatting

Pasting into Sudowrite from Word, Google Docs, ChatGPT, or Claude now preserves formatting far more reliably. And copying out of Sudowrite will no longer double your line breaks. Imports come in cleaner too, without phantom empty paragraphs.

A more polished editor all around

Headings now scale with your text size and match your chosen font. Nested bullets now use proper markers with tighter spacing. And your formatting—bullets included—should now appear in the editor exactly the same as it does in cards in your History section.

Big thanks to everyone in the community who flagged these copy/paste and spacing issues in recent months. This one’s for you.

The team has been hard at work on fixes and key improvements this week. Here’s what’s new.

Draft won’t charge you more than its estimate - We improved the Draft tool’s estimates recently, and in doing so made that estimated range into a promise. You’ll no longer see credit charges in excess of the estimate’s ceiling in the Draft planning step. Hooray!

One note: While making this update earlier this week, we briefly broke the retired My Voice model options in Draft. My Voice users hit a credit-estimation error and couldn’t generate. The issue lasted about a day, but it’s fully fixed now. Sorry about that!

Chat Improvements

Chat reads and inserts more reliably - We fixed a batch of issues that made it difficult for Chat to read your document or insert its edits. Reading and inserting are more reliable now.

Failed plans shouldn’t use your credits - It was possible for a complex multi-step plan like a complete manuscript review to fail and still charge you credits. We fixed that, and you won’t be charged in those cases.

Reduced internal jargon in your messages - Chat’s own reasoning sometimes includes noisy jargon—document IDs, “tool” references, etc. We tweaked it so it would stop referencing that in conversation.

Other Improvements & Fixes

Write now completes the sentence - The Write button previously prioritized your word count preference over completeness of thought—meaning it could stop mid-sentence. It now runs to the nearest complete sentence, even if that means a few extra words.

Custom Rewrite instructions stick around - The Rewrite button’s “Customize” instructions had quietly become single-use. We made it work like it used to, so they stay put for repeated rewrites.

The highlight toolbar waits to appear - When you select text, the pop-up toolbar now appears after you release the mouse button instead of mid-drag—so it stops obscuring the lines around your selection.

Find and Replace now handles doc switching - We changed Find and Replace so that if you have a term entered when switching documents, it re-runs automatically in the new doc.

New titles stay put - Typing a title too quickly in a brand-new project could sometimes snap the title back to “Untitled.” Your title now sticks.

A cleaner document list - We improved the document list in your left bar—giving a bit more space, improving contrast for accessibility purposes, and making (•••) menus and toggles only show up when you need them.

Undo no longer undoes more than it should - We fixed a bug with undo where it could reverse the past few edits rather than just your most recent edit. Meanwhile, the editor’s Undo button now works on the first click after you insert text from a card. (Did you know there’s an Undo button in the editor toolbar? I didn’t, and I write these!)

It’s also worth calling out a noteworthy fix on the Sudowrite mobile app this week:

We fixed the cursor jump in Story Bible - On mobile, the cursor was jumping to the end of certain Story Bible fields after each character, making them frustratingly difficult to edit. We fixed that!