Today we ship v3.4.0. The star of this release is a new document: the Authorship Record. When “did a person write this?” stops being rhetorical and turns into a question you actually get asked — at an award submission, a magazine desk, a delivery deadline — you need something you can hand over. There’s more in the box, too. Notes now pair a setup with its payoff and carry to-do checkboxes. One click finds repeated passages across a whole book. Collaborative review got a thorough pass. And you can stop the AI mid-run, whenever you want.
Authorship Record: show a third party that a human wrote this book
This past May, the film academy set a new rule for the 2027 Oscars: only scripts written by a real person can be nominated for the screenwriting award, and the academy reserves the right to investigate whether a work used generative AI. Here’s the catch. The industry already agrees on one thing: there is no reliable AI detector. When detection is a dead end, one path is left. You bring a credible record of how the work was made.
That’s exactly what Slima has been collecting since day one. Every version you write is kept. Every Snapshot can be restored. The whole timeline is the evidence that you grew this book one word at a time. Now that timeline becomes a document with a single click.
- Where to make it: You’ll find the Authorship Record in the export menu in Writing Studio, or on the Deliver tab in Script Studio.
- What’s inside: A Creation timeline ordered by version history, a Word count growth curve, a breakdown of Versions and Manual snapshots, Days of work, Final manuscript words, and a count of AI interactions. It lays out how the book actually came together, for a reviewer to read.
- Add your name: Before you generate it, you can write an Authorship statement and sign it yourself. Your Author signature gets embedded in the report. (The signature only goes into the document; it’s never stored on our servers.)
- Print to PDF: The report is a printable web page. Use your browser’s Print -> Save as PDF, and you have a file to send.
We’ll also say this plainly: a creation history is strong evidence, not airtight proof. The report is honest about what it can and can’t show, and it won’t overclaim on your behalf. If you want to understand why this matters and where its limits are, read When “Did a human write this?” becomes a real question. For a step-by-step walkthrough, see Create your Authorship Record.
Notes, upgraded: categories, checkboxes, and foreshadowing pairs
Notes in Writing Studio grew some structure this release.
- Notes can be categorized: Sort notes by what they’re for, instead of piling everything into one heap.
- To-do notes get checkboxes: Tick them off. A checked item gets a strikethrough on its title and can show the author who closed it. It’s a lightweight progress list sitting right next to your draft.
- Foreshadowing pairs: Link a “setup” note to its “payoff” note as a single pair, and the panel will flag which threads you haven’t paid off yet. Planting something and forgetting to land it is the most common hole in a long book. Now Slima keeps track for you.
The AI Coach in script planning can now write your notes
Script Studio’s desktop planning page gains an AI Coach entry point.
The Coach could already read your structured notes. This release takes it one step further: you talk, and it can create and edit note content directly. Got a piece of worldbuilding that’s still half-formed in your head? Describe it out loud, and hand the messy “turn this into a note” part to the Coach.
Transcript (.srt) import: bring spoken words in to rewrite
Some stories start out spoken. Talks, interviews, dictation. You can now bring them straight into Slima.
When you import an .srt subtitle file, Slima strips the timecodes, keeps the speaker labels, and merges fragmented caption lines into paragraphs automatically. What lands is a clean, readable draft. From there, you rewrite it into a book in the editor.
Scan the whole book for duplicates: catch passages you wrote twice
Write long enough and the same metaphor, the same beat of interior monologue, slips into a second chapter without you noticing.
The chapter analysis panel now has a one-click button at the top. It scans the whole book, lists near-duplicate passages, and jumps you to the original text when you click one. Find the repeats, cut or rewrite them, and the whole book reads cleaner.
Collaboration and co-review, smoothed end to end
- New “Collaborators” entry point: Invite an editor or writer to a work by email, right from the editor. Team owners can adjust a member’s role anytime (writer ↔ editor).
- Accepting a suggestion applies it correctly: When you take a suggested edit, it actually lands in the source text.
- No more silent vanishing: When the source a suggestion points to can’t be found, it no longer quietly marks itself resolved. It tells you.
- Resolving a plain comment isn’t misread: Marking a comment-only thread as “Resolved” won’t get logged as “Rejected” by mistake.
- Mobile locks to read-only for others’ revisions: When you view someone else’s revisions on a phone, the editor correctly locks to read-only, so a stray tap can’t change anything.
Stop the AI mid-run, anytime
- Interrupt a conversation anytime: While the AI is talking, one tap on “Stop” cuts it off. Even a multi-step run where the AI is calling tools back-to-back will stop.
- It backs off when it’s stuck: If the AI gets caught repeating the same action, it now stops on its own and explains why, instead of spinning and burning your credits.
- Chapter analysis can stop too: When the AI is partway through analyzing a chapter (pacing, dialogue, and so on), you can hit “Stop” without waiting for the whole pass to finish.
More fixes
- The file tree’s “Add” menu isn’t covered up anymore: With folders fully expanded and a long file list, the “New file / New folder” popup from “Add” now floats on top and stays clickable, rather than getting hidden or clipped behind today’s word count.
- The editor’s “··· More” menu finally responds: Code, horizontal rule, paste as Markdown, spell check, half-width to full-width punctuation — these all do something when you click them now.
- Drag files in batches: Multi-select and drag into a folder in one go, and drag back out the same way.
- Manual sync button fixed: No more errors. It pushes your local changes up as it should.
- Script Studio trash isn’t permanently empty: Deleted seasons and episodes show up correctly now, and they restore correctly too.
- Onboarding text is bigger: Easier to read.
What’s next
The Authorship Record is a starting point. As “a human wrote this” becomes something you have to prove more and more often, we’ll keep paving this road to be steadier and more trustworthy. See you next time.