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Learning Paths Use cases Your data & privacy Three entry points compared First-time MCP setup First time with AI Readers First-time setup Getting Started From Zero to Published: Your First Book Writing a screenplay AI issues PWA install & updates Web connection (OAuth) AI Readers list Book list Account & Profile The Complete Snowflake Method Guide Structure & time Editor & sync issues Desktop app Local connection (stdio) Set up a reading Books Deep Guide to AI Collaborative Writing Deliver & share Desktop / PWA install Connection & sync indicators API tokens Reader personas Editor overview Book Project Management Legacy Script Studio Report & contact Offline mode Versions & upgrades Run a reading Writing tools Genre Writing Masterclass Glossary Sync conflicts Tools reference Report structure Files & content Habits of Master Writers Account deletion & export Version notifications File types & permissions Overview dashboard Writing experience Writing Craft First Aid Deprecated features Advanced: schema & self-host Reader feedback overview AI Coach Plans & billing Writing Psychology Troubleshooting Seven diagnostic sections AI chapter analysis Individual reader cards Version history Editor letter Goals & motivation Editor five lenses Toolbars & menus Action items Keyboard shortcuts Rating scale Sharing & comments Reading history Import & export Relationship map (.map) Report quota & cost Beat board (.beats) Export report Timeline (.timeline) World map (.geomap) Notes AI structural editing
Insights

What Literature Demands When Text Can No Longer Prove Itself

When finished writing cannot prove human origin, contests and platforms turn to drafts and upload caps. Here is how writers...

Insights · September 13, 2026 · 12 min read
Changelog

Screenplays on a phone, and word counts that say the whole number

The day after 4.0: screenplays are editable on mobile, running time sits in the toolbar and is recalculated scene by scene,...

Changelog · September 9, 2026 · 6 min read
Changelog

A screenplay is a file now, not a separate studio (Slima 4.0)

From Slima 4.0 a screenplay is a .script file in your file tree: right-click New Script, one file per episode, scene cards you...

Changelog · September 8, 2026 · 10 min read
Changelog

When the form asks how you used AI, you should have numbers, not a memory

Slima 4.0 counts AI writes, pastes and imports, and AI consultations separately, and adds Creation Playback, keystroke-level...

Changelog · September 8, 2026 · 9 min read
Changelog

The AI now edits one field, not the whole file (Slima 4.0)

From Slima 4.0 the AI edits screenplays, beat boards, relationship maps, world maps and timelines field by field: it touches...

Changelog · September 8, 2026 · 9 min read
Changelog

Slima 4.0: one studio, six file types, and an AI that edits structure

27 releases in one. Script Studio folds into the Writing Studio, five new structured file types arrive, the AI edits them field...

Changelog · September 8, 2026 · 17 min read
Insights

Self-Publishing Now: Distribution Was Never the Hard Part

Distribution stopped being the barrier. Discovery never did. What indie publishing gives you, what it costs, and how long it...

Insights · August 18, 2026 · 5 min read
Insights

The Homogenisation Trap: Why AI Suggests the Centre, and What to Keep for Yourself

A model suggests the centre of everything, because probable means closest to what exists. The risk is not one generic writer....

Insights · August 18, 2026 · 6 min read
Insights

The AI Writing Debate: Which Objections Hold, and Where the Line Sits

The training-data objection holds. The displacement worry aims at the wrong target. A tool that finds where pacing collapses is...

Insights · August 18, 2026 · 6 min read
Academy

Writing Methods: Which One Solves the Problem You Actually Have

Snowflake, Save the Cat and Story Circle each answer a different question. Name where your draft stalls first, then pick the...

Academy · August 18, 2026 · 7 min read
Insights

What Is Claude's Text Watermark? Hidden Characters Are the Wrong Guess

Anthropic has not said how Claude watermarks text. Here is the technology its behavior points to, and why it marks honest AI...

Insights · August 11, 2026 · 18 min read
Academy

The Character Bible: The Fields You Actually Open at Chapter 80

The bible fields you keep opening are what a character knows, from which chapter, and who they told. Appearance and MBTI stay...

Academy · August 8, 2026 · 5 min read
Changelog

Your AI beta reader now replies in the language you write in

English manuscripts get English reports, and so do Japanese, Korean and Spanish. Foreshadowing gets six verdicts, and...

Changelog · August 8, 2026 · 3 min read
Academy

Seven Fields: The Worldbuilding Sheet That's Still Alive at Chapter 30

A worldbuilding sheet gets better as it gets shorter. Keep only the fields you look up mid-draft, and note which chapter each...

Academy · August 3, 2026 · 4 min read
Academy

Where to Keep Your Novel's Worldbuilding: Four Rules That Survive Chapter 40

Keep worldbuilding in the same file tree as the draft, title notes with the words you'll actually search, write each fact once,...

Academy · August 3, 2026 · 5 min read
Academy

AI Beta Reader vs Human Beta Reader: What Each One Is Actually For

An AI beta reader finds where attention breaks, as often as you need. A human tells you whether the book was worth reading. Run...

Academy · August 3, 2026 · 6 min read
Academy

AI Beta Reader: How to Tell if One Is Actually Reading Your Book

An AI beta reader is only useful if it can give you a bad score. Three tests to run before you trust the report: can it refuse...

Academy · August 3, 2026 · 6 min read
Academy

How to Generate Your Authorship Record: A Step-by-Step Guide

A hands-on guide to Slima's Authorship Record: where to open it, how to read the report, sign your statement, save a PDF, and...

Academy · June 30, 2026 · 5 min read
Academy

When "Did a Human Write This?" Stopped Being Rhetorical

AI detectors don't work, and the burden of proof is quietly flipping. With the 2027 Oscars now requiring human-written scripts,...

Academy · June 30, 2026 · 6 min read
Changelog

Authorship Record ships, notes grow to-dos and foreshadowing pairs, and co-review gets smoother

The new Authorship Record turns your version history into a signed proof of human authorship. Plus notes upgrades, .srt import,...

Changelog · June 30, 2026 · 6 min read

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