Getting Started

What to know when you first arrive at Slima

01 Welcome to Slima Slima is a workspace for long-form writing: one Writing Studio, an AI Beta Reader, and MCP to reach your books from other AI tools. A book here is a file tree.
02 Writing Studio, AI Beta Reader and MCP: how Slima is laid out Slima 4.0 is one Writing Studio plus the AI Beta Reader, and MCP so other AI tools can read and write your books. A screenplay is a .script file in the tree.
03 The three pillars: whole-book memory, version history, manuscript-aware AI What Slima does under the hood is what long-form actually needs: AI that sees the whole book, drafts that never disappear, an AI that knows where you are.
04 Sign up and sign in to Slima Two ways into Slima: sign in with Google (cloud sync + AI), or start without an account (data stays on your device, AI off). No credit card, no trial timer.
05 Create your first book Five minutes from nothing: press Create New Work, pick how to start, fill one form where only the title is required. Genre decides your folders — pick Screenplay and the first file is a .script.
06 Interface tour: activity bar, file tree, editor, panels Five minutes on every part of the Writing Studio editor: the seven panels on the activity bar, the five icons in the panel header, the right-click create menu, the view controls and the status bar.
07 Import your existing manuscript (Word / Markdown / PDF) Bring in Word / Markdown / plain text / PDF / EPUB — how Slima imports them, what survives, and what to watch per source.
08 Pick a plan: Free / Starter / Pro / Team Not numbers — those are at /plans. This is the shape of each tier, the natural upgrade triggers, and how to operate the change.
09 Global keyboard shortcuts cheat sheet Five to learn first: ⌘P quick open, ⌘⇧E explorer, ⌘⇧A AI chat, ⌘D Zen Mode, ⌘/ the shortcut sheet. Plus panels, tabs and splits, editing, the file tree, and the three keys that collide.