This week is the first time Slima looked like a product.
Slime brand identity
Slime officially debuts — a green, animated, expressive slime mascot for Slima.
You’ll see Slime in:
- The Insight dashboard
- The PWA app icon
- The homepage hero
We also locked in the full brand visual language:
- Cream-white background (not the usual SaaS cold blue)
- IBM Plex Serif headlines
- Indigo / Leaf-green / Amber as accent system
- Rounded corners, soft shadows, editorial layout
The whole point of the visual language: a writer’s workspace should feel like a study, not a dashboard.
Split-pane editor
Open two files side-by-side and edit them in parallel.
Common workflows:
- Left: character notes, right: draft a new chapter
- Left: outline, right: write the scene
- Left: older version (different commit), right: rewrite
Both panes share the same commit history, but each shows its own word count. Toggle with Ctrl+\.
Relationship graph — rebuilt from scratch
We had been using an open-source mind-map library. It choked on large books (200+ characters / scenes).
We ripped it out this week and hand-rolled a canvas renderer:
- Drag nodes, custom node colors
- Relationship edges with type labels
- Mouse-wheel zoom and pan
- Smooth at 200+ nodes
Arabic RTL — day 18
Slima is 18 days old, and Arabic right-to-left layout is now fully supported.
What’s covered:
dir="rtl"page-wide mirroring- Editor cursor / selection / paragraph alignment
- UI buttons, menus, sidebars all mirrored
- Mixed Arabic-Chinese-English typesetting handled correctly
The Arabic-speaking world has a huge community of long-form writers — light novels, religious literature, historical essays — and very few tools to choose from. We didn’t want them to wait.
Spell check
Native browser spell-check API, zero configuration. For writers who are typo-prone (we are), it’s a quiet but real upgrade.
Next week
December’s last week — Insight Cards dashboard, Slime status engine, and AI Reasoning Mode as default.