The latest update contains many internal technological improvements that are not immediately noticeable, but will bear fruit in the coming year as we anticipate the roll out of some new major features.

A tutorial is now available under the main menu:

The tutorial will automatically import the Veiled Lodger sample story from Arthur Conan Doyle and walk you through Granthika's features with the story's universe as a background.

You will notice that there are no more and buttons for your story universe and narrative structure. Instead all changes are saved automatically and you can undo/redo them using the undo/redo buttons on the upper right corner:

The common copy/cut/paste button are always available in the editor bar. Less common formatting is accessible via a pull down menu next to them:

Lastly, the layout of the editor, namely which panels you want open, is configured by a separate layout settings dialog:

To find strings in your manuscript text and replace them, use the Search and Replace option. Click on the icon in the right end of the formatting toolbar, and a the side panel will activate.

You can also use the Ctrl+H or Cmd+H shortcut while you are in the Editor, to open the Search and Replace Panel.

The option to specify event duration has been added under the Events Details tab.

Users can now jump to the event being references under Event Relationships by clicking on the ___ icon.

FIX: Special characters now show correctly in pdfs exported from Characters, Events, Objects, Locations, Timeline and the Details Tab.

FIX: Improvements have been made to the Reasoning Engine which evaluates relationships between events.

FIX: Under Settings the option to enable/disable Spellcheck is now preserved across sessions.

Users can now enable spellchecking in a number of languages, and add custom dictionary entries, so spellcheck can disregard them. Configuring spellcheck is done in the Settings option, under the G menu.

If the user adds a URL starting with http://, https:// or www. to any notes, story element descriptions or part/chapter/scene/section descriptions, they will be displayed as clickable hyperlinks.

FIX: The timestamps on the project backups reflect the timezone on the user's computer.

The parts, chapters, scenes and sections of a manuscript can now be visualized from a "bird's eye view". Click on BOARD and then choose either the grid or the column layout to see the organization of the discourse elements in your project.

In-place edits of the chapter/section/scene title and description from the board view are enabled.

Granthika performs frequent safety backups of your projects which tend to consume a lot of disk space. This release introduces smarter management of those automatic backups where fewer old snapshots of your projects are being kept.

Numbered list formatting

Timeline navigation

Knowledge Explorer dates

Users can now change the font for their project by selecting from a list (Serif, Sans Serif and some "playful" font types) in the Editor's Hamburger menu. Also available are fonts that support Indian scripts. Note: the fonts are applied to the text in the editor, to all story elements and to the titles of the manuscript parts: chapters, scenes and sections.

Setting chronological dependencies between events has been enhanced. Now a user can create event "chains" with events set to begin before/after another event. When changes are made - the dates of the dependent events are reset automatically.

Character, Object, Location and Event details can now be exported to PDF. The timeline can similarly be exported (in vertical layout). PDF export functions are also available for the Table of Contents panel, to allow the export of the discourse structure, and to the Search Results.

This enables authors to print or share story outlines, key facts about their story elements and their story outline, by making them available outside the Granthika app.

Scrivener users can now see more elements from their Scrivener projects reflected in Granthika after import: chapter synopses, Characters, Locations. The Scrivener folder structure is also translated more accurately to the Granthika Chapter-Section-Scene model.

Authors can now create events that are BCE, or that have 5 digit year "futuristic" dates.

Users are able to undo/redo operations in the TOC panel using the standard Ctrl+z and Ctrl+y keystrokes. For example if a chapter is deleted it can be restored via the Ctrl+z combination. These operations can also be used in the Editor, as before.

When previewing a story element in the Knowledge Explorer or in the QuickView pop-up in the editor, the default image (if one is available) displays.

Navigating from search results: users can click from the results under the search bar, and the item of interest will be highlighted in the editor, with the cursor active in front of it (so they can start typing or making modifications to it without an extra click).

The Table of Contents does not auto-scroll upon creation of a new discourse element: when the user is creating a new part/chapter/scene or section at the very bottom of the TOC, the new element is now made visible without the need to scroll down.

Double-clicking on Alias in Entity Managers: now when you double-click on any alias in a Character/Event/Object or Location profile the cursor is positioned at the end.

Support for image galleries has been added for characters, locations and objects. Users can upload images now, give them descriptions and labels and view them within the respective story element tabs.

When the TOC panel is active (as indicated by the red line) the arrow keys can be used to navigate Up and Down the elements in the table of contents. The LEFT and RIGHT arrows are used to respectively close collapse and expand a discourse element if it has sub-elements, e.g. if a chapter has scenes. The ENTER key can be used to edit the title of the discourse element.

In the event manager, users now have the option to sort events temporally based on the date of their occurrence. If the event has no associated date it is marked with a red dot and listed below the events with an absolute date.

If the user creates an event that happens sometime between two dates, the event will now display on the timeline as a gray box indicating the span between those dates.

The Analyzer component, which detects the names of characters and locations, either creates new entities from them, or defines mentions (or connections) to existing entities, now also proposes defining mentions for the aliases the author has created as part of their character or location profiles. Also, whereas previously verbs and nouns which were also proper names (e.g. Will, Max, etc.) were detected by the Analyzer as candidates for new entities, now these are picked up only when capitalized, thus decreasing the possibility for erroneous detection and eliminating the need for the user to unselect them from the Analyzer's suggestions.

The following keystroke combinations have been enabled for navigating to and from the editor and the different tabs in the application (for Windows):

Alt + 1: moves to the Editor tab from anywhere in the app.

Alt + 2 : moves to the Characters tab from anywhere in the app.

Alt + 3 : moves to the Locations tab from anywhere in the app.

Alt + 4 : moves to the Objects tab from anywhere in the app.

Alt + 5 : moves to the Events tab from anywhere in the app.

Alt + 6 : moves to the Timeline from anywhere in the app.

For Mac the combinations are + 1, + 2, etc.

In the Details panel, the notes fields can now properly scroll.

In the story element managers (Character/Location/Object/Event) initiating a new note through typing automatically triggers the SAVE warning message.

Previously exporting to Scrivener failed to generate output files. Now going to Export -> Scrivener Project saves a .scriv folder with the necessary files and directories.

A problem with inconsistent positioning of the cursor when centering paragraphs has been remedied. The Formatting toolbar appearance has been modified to make it stand out and to better indicate the active formatting mode.

As a result of interest in identifying social and stylistic biases in manuscripts we have introduced several new experimental metrics related to character gender in the present release.

Writers will be able to track gender pronoun usage, see the ratio of male to female characters in their novel, and also perform conformity analysis which identifies actions and descriptions associated with characters and compares those to larger trends. These metrics are calculated either for the entire manuscript or for individual discourse elements and can be seen from the TOC and Details panels, under Metrics.

Named entity recognition was previously available at the level of a discourse element, but with this update users will be able to run the Analyzer on any selection of text (e.g. several paragraphs within a chapter).

BUG FIX: Due to event logic and relationship consistency analysis processes the event manager would either slow down or become unresponsive. The associated background processes have been streamlined to avoid user interface problems in both the event manager and the timeline.

BUG FIX: Italics and bold keystroke operations and related formatting toolbar use were exhibiting intermittent problems, and these have been fixed. Also position of the formatting toolbar has been adjusted to avoid overlap with chapter/scene/section end markers.

BUG FIX: Extra long chapter/scene/section titles now do not overlap with the other panels. Paragraph text and titles cannot be accidentally merged in the Editor.

In this release we have focused on bug fixes and flow optimizations. Our goal is to make some of the more repetitive tasks associated with importing from Word, or creating mentions smoother and quicker.

When users import from Word, they currently have to recreate their chapter/scene/section structure (i.e. their discourse elements) in the TOC section manually. Now, with this new feature the process is alleviated. They can position the cursor where the end of chapter one should be and hit Ctrl+Enter. This will give them an option to turn the text above into a chapter/section or scene. Users can keep moving to the next "endpoint," and hitting Ctrl+Enter for the next chapter, and so on until the TOC panel is populated with all discourse elements. A video demonstrating this is available in the Granthika documentation.

You can type @ & the name of a character/location/event or object in order to create a mention in your manuscript. This will open a menu with all the entity names that match what you are typing (e.g. start typing @she... and a menu will open with Sherlock Holmes, Sherwood Forest etc listed). With the current release, the first candidate in the menu will be selected and you can press Enter to confirm the selection. This automation ensures a mouse-free mention-creating experience which doesn't ruin your flow!

BUG FIX: Now, when you paste from MS Word paragraphs are successfully recreated.

BUG FIX: The text in the Analyzer module shows the same paragraph separators that are in the manuscript.

BUG FIX: When a note was added, multiple copies of it appeared in the story element managers. This is no longer occurring.

BUG FIX: Clicking on QuickView for a mention either from the floating toolbar, by right-clicking and then selecting Open-View Details, or by hitting Ctrl+Q resulted in the QuickView showing at the bottom of the page. Now it appears correctly above the mention.

BUG FIX: The dialog box defaulted to today's date. With this release the previous date used is prepopulated as a sample.

BUG FIX: Under some conditions, the events on the timeline would stack on top of each other. This behavior has been eliminated.

BUG FIX: When users conduct searches and click within the search results, the editor will go to the term being searched. If this term is at the top of the page in the editor and the Formatting Toolbar is showing - the search result would show behind the toolbar. With the current fix, it will show underneath it.