Use AI edits and version history
Rewrite a passage or a whole chapter with targeted AI edits you accept or reject, then compare and restore any earlier version from the History tab.
In this guide
AI edits change only what you choose, and version history means nothing you or the AI wrote is ever lost. Both live in Write chapters, in the assistant panel on the right. AI edits need the Plus plan or above and a chapter with text; version history works on every plan.
Step 1: Rewrite a selected passage
Select a sentence, a paragraph or a whole scene in the editor. A small Edit with AI button appears above the selection; click it. The AI edits tab opens with your text under “Selected passage”.
Describe the change — “make this calmer and shorter”, “give her a sharper reply” — and press Rewrite selection. It costs 5 credits.
Step 2: Or edit the whole chapter
With nothing selected, type an instruction for the whole chapter in the AI edits tab, such as:
- Tighten the dialogue
- Fix tense slips
- More sensory detail in the opening
Press Suggest edits. You get a set of targeted changes — usually between 3 and 15 — each tied to a specific sentence or short passage. It also costs 5 credits, and if no changes are suggested, you aren’t charged.
Step 3: Review each suggestion
Every suggestion shows its reason and the change itself, with removed words struck through and new words highlighted. Read it in context, then:
- Accept applies it. The editor updates and the change is saved as a new version.
- Reject discards it, and your text stays as it was.
Suggestions wait in the tab until you decide, and the tab’s name shows how many are open.
Step 4: Understand conflicts
An edit applies only to the exact passage it was made for. If you change that passage after the suggestion was made, the suggestion is marked “The passage changed after this was suggested.” and can’t be applied. That stops an edit from landing in the wrong place. Select the passage again and ask for a new edit.
Step 5: Open the history
Choose the History tab. Every version of the chapter is listed, newest first, with its time, its word count and where it came from:
- Your edits — your typing, grouped into one snapshot per ten minutes of work
- Written by AI — a generated chapter
- AI draft (offered) — a new draft kept beside your text
- Accepted suggestion — the chapter after you accepted an AI edit
- Imported, Restored and Translation — text from a Word import, a restore or a book translation
Step 6: Preview and restore
Click any version to read it in place of the editor. Then choose:
- Restore this version to make it the chapter’s text again, or
- Back to editing to return without changing anything.
Restoring never deletes anything. The text you replace becomes a version too, so you can switch back, and a message confirms “Restored — the text it replaced is in the history”.
Step 7: Use drafts and history together
When you generate a new draft for a chapter that already has text, the draft appears in the history as AI draft (offered), and a banner offers Compare and Use the draft. If you use it and change your mind, restore your earlier version from the list.
Step 8: Handle edits from two places
If the same chapter is edited in two tabs, or a draft is applied while you’re typing, the save is stopped and you’re asked which version to keep. OK saves your text as the newest version; Cancel loads the other one. Either way, both are kept in the history.
Tips
- Make structural changes in the outline and regenerate the chapter; use AI edits for sentences and scenes.
- Several short, specific instructions work better than one long one, and the suggestions are easier to judge.
- Line edits from the whole-book review behave the same way: you accept or reject each one, and none is applied without you.