Livres AI Documentation

Your guide to focused human authoring, manuscript intelligence, continuity diagnostics, and reader-focused review.

Quick Start Guide
Get up and running with Livres AI in minutes
1

Create Your Project

Start by creating a new book project with your title and genre.

2

Open a Section

Choose a chapter or section and write in the silent one-column editor.

3

Open Review Tools When Needed

Use Insights, Memory, Diagnostics, Metrics, or Command without crowding the writing page.

Author Workspace Guide

The default editor is intentionally quiet. Advanced review surfaces are still available, but they open only when you choose them from the silent action bar or command palette.

Silent Writing Surface
Keeps the default editor focused on the manuscript, with one centered writing column and no always-visible review panels.
Author Guide

How to Reach It

  1. 1Open Dashboard.
  2. 2Select a book project.
  3. 3Open a section from the book overview.
  4. 4Write in the centered editor. The tools above it stay compact by default.

Actions and Effects

Unified author journey toolbar

Trigger: Visible above the editor after a project is open.

Effect: Gives quick access to optional drawers without shrinking the writing column.

Editor tools

Trigger: Use the editor toolbar or the editor command palette.

Effect: Opens find, outline, stats, style, grammar, manuscript navigation, or revision history only when needed.

Tips

  • Draft first; open drawers only during review passes.
  • Use the command palette when you know what you need and do not want to scan the interface.
  • Keep the utility panel closed during drafting to preserve the widest writing area.
Review Insights Drawer
Shows wording review, read-aloud output, diagnostics, and reader-focused insight without interrupting the draft.
Author Guide

How to Reach It

  1. 1Click Insights in the silent writing mode bar.
  2. 2Or click Command and run Open Review Insights.
  3. 3If a review result exists, use the floating Insights button at the bottom-right of the screen.

Actions and Effects

Wording Review

Trigger: Select text in the editor, then choose Wording Review from the selection menu.

Effect: Returns alternative wording while preserving your voice. You decide whether to apply or dismiss it.

Read Aloud

Trigger: Select text and choose the read-aloud action from the selection menu when enabled.

Effect: Creates an audio-style listening pass for rhythm, clarity, and flow.

Apply Edit

Trigger: Open Insights, hover a review item to preview, then click Apply Edit.

Effect: Replaces the selected manuscript text with the reviewed wording.

Dismiss / Copy Insight

Trigger: Use the Dismiss or Copy Insight controls in the drawer.

Effect: Removes an item from the queue or copies the note for external revision tracking.

Tips

  • Use wording review on paragraphs you have already drafted, not as a blank-page tool.
  • Dismiss notes that do not match your voice; the manuscript remains under your control.
  • Use read-aloud for dialogue, long sentences, and emotionally important scenes.
Manuscript Navigator Drawer
Restores direct section switching and book-structure actions without keeping a permanent navigation column beside the manuscript.
Author Guide

How to Reach It

  1. 1Click Sections in the silent writing mode bar.
  2. 2When editing a section, click Switch Section in the section header.
  3. 3Or click Command and run Open Manuscript Navigator or Switch Section.

Actions and Effects

Select a section

Trigger: Open Manuscript Navigator, then click a chapter, scene, front cover, or back cover.

Effect: Closes the drawer and loads that manuscript section in the focused editor.

Add chapter

Trigger: Use Add Chapter in the navigator drawer.

Effect: Creates a new chapter in the book structure using the existing manuscript-structure flow.

Delete selected section

Trigger: Select an eligible body section, then use Delete in the navigator drawer.

Effect: Removes the selected section from the structure after the existing confirmation flow.

View full book

Trigger: Use View Full Book in the navigator drawer.

Effect: Closes the drawer and opens the full-manuscript view.

Tips

  • Use Switch Section while drafting scenes so navigation takes one click and does not require returning to overview.
  • Use the full-book view for reading order checks, then return to section editing for focused revision.
  • Keep the navigator closed once the target section is open; the writing column remains unchanged.
Manuscript Memory Drawer
Keeps character, location, and event memory accessible without keeping entity tables in the editor layout.
Author Guide

How to Reach It

  1. 1Click Memory in the silent writing mode bar.
  2. 2Or click Command and run Open Manuscript Memory.

Actions and Effects

Characters

Trigger: Open Memory, then click Characters while a section with content is selected.

Effect: Updates character profiles, roles, traits, appearances, and relationship signals from the current section.

Locations

Trigger: Open Memory, then click Locations while a section with content is selected.

Effect: Updates setting memory, location appearances, and section-linked place details.

Events

Trigger: Open Memory, then click Events while a section with content is selected.

Effect: Extracts narrative events and helps build chronology for the manuscript.

View table rows

Trigger: Click an item in the character, location, or event table.

Effect: Opens the detail drawer for the selected manuscript memory item.

View all page / book items

Trigger: Use the table header buttons in Memory.

Effect: Opens a broader analysis page for the current section or the full book.

Tips

  • Run memory extraction after a scene is drafted or revised.
  • Use section-level analysis for close review and book-level pages for broad continuity work.
  • Review memory before major rewrites so character and event changes stay deliberate.
Continuity Diagnostics Drawer
Collects consistency warnings in a review surface that does not compete with writing.
Author Guide

How to Reach It

  1. 1Click Diagnostics in the silent writing mode bar.
  2. 2Or click Command and run Open Consistency Diagnostics.

Actions and Effects

Refresh diagnostics

Trigger: Open Diagnostics and use the refresh control in the panel.

Effect: Rebuilds warnings from current character, location, event, and section memory.

Review warning cards

Trigger: Read each warning card in the diagnostics drawer.

Effect: Surfaces possible contradictions, chronology collisions, repeated details, or missing continuity context.

Tips

  • Run diagnostics after memory extraction so the checker has more context.
  • Treat warnings as review leads; verify them against the manuscript before editing.
  • Use diagnostics before beta reading, editor handoff, or export.
Command Palette
Provides keyboard-friendly access to advanced actions without adding permanent interface weight.
Author Guide

How to Reach It

  1. 1Click Command in the silent writing mode bar.
  2. 2Type part of the action name.
  3. 3Click the command you want to run.

Actions and Effects

Open Manuscript Navigator / Switch Section

Trigger: Run from Command.

Effect: Opens the manuscript navigator drawer for direct section switching and book-structure actions.

Open Review Insights

Trigger: Run from Command.

Effect: Opens the review drawer.

Open Manuscript Memory

Trigger: Run from Command.

Effect: Opens character, location, and event memory.

Open Consistency Diagnostics

Trigger: Run from Command.

Effect: Opens continuity warnings.

Run Character / Location / Event Intelligence

Trigger: Run from Command while a section with content is selected.

Effect: Runs the selected manuscript-memory extraction without opening the toolbar buttons first.

View Full Book / Back to Section Overview

Trigger: Run from Command.

Effect: Switches between manuscript overview and section editing flow.

Tips

  • Use Command when you want to keep your hands close to the keyboard.
  • Search by the noun: Sections, Navigator, Switch, Insights, Memory, Diagnostics, Characters, Locations, Events.
  • Use Command for review sessions, not only drafting sessions.
Metrics and Developer Drawers
Keeps operational panels available without showing them to authors by default.
Author Guide

How to Reach It

  1. 1Click Metrics to open telemetry and performance panels when enabled.
  2. 2Click Dev to open feature flags and superadmin utilities in non-production environments.
  3. 3Or use Command and run Open Telemetry and Performance or Open Developer Controls.

Actions and Effects

Telemetry

Trigger: Open Metrics when telemetry is enabled.

Effect: Shows request counts, error counts, rate limits, latency, and estimated usage cost.

Performance budgets

Trigger: Open Metrics when performance panels are enabled.

Effect: Shows whether editor and review surfaces are staying within expected budgets.

Feature flags

Trigger: Open Dev in a non-production environment.

Effect: Allows enabled features to be tested without placing dev controls in the writing layout.

Tips

  • Authors rarely need Metrics during drafting.
  • Use Metrics when investigating slow editor behavior or review reliability.
  • Keep Dev closed unless you are testing feature availability.

Feature Overview

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Silent Editor Workspace
Write in one focused column while review, memory, diagnostics, and metrics stay behind drawers
Author Experience
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Review Insights
Open wording review, read-aloud output, and diagnostic notes only when you ask for them
Manuscript Intelligence
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Character Intelligence
Extract character memory, continuity signals, and source-backed profiles from your manuscript
Manuscript Intelligence
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Writing Goals
Set and track your daily and weekly writing goals
Productivity
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Auto-Save Editor
Never lose your work with automatic content saving
Core Features
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Continuity Diagnostics
Inspect consistency warnings when you are ready to review, not while drafting
Manuscript Intelligence
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Project Management
Organize and manage multiple book projects
Core Features
Silent Editor Workspace
The default writing experience is one column. Review surfaces are available from drawers and command actions.

Default Layout

When you open a section, the manuscript is centered in a single writing column. The editor utility panel, review insights, manuscript memory, diagnostics, telemetry, and dev controls are closed by default.

Access Model

Use the silent action bar above the editor or the Command button to open advanced tools only when you need them. Drawers slide in without permanently changing the writing layout.

Silent Action Bar

Sections

Opens the manuscript navigator for direct section switching, chapter actions, and full-book view.

Insights

Opens review notes, wording review results, read-aloud output, and diagnostics.

Memory

Opens character, location, and event tables plus section analysis actions.

Diagnostics

Opens continuity warnings and manuscript consistency checks.

Metrics

Opens telemetry and performance panels when enabled.

Dev

Opens feature flags and admin utilities in non-production.

Command

Opens searchable actions for drawers, analysis, guidelines, and navigation.

Fast Command Access

Click Command, type what you need, and run the action. Useful commands include Open Manuscript Navigator, Switch Section, Open Review Insights, Open Manuscript Memory, Open Consistency Diagnostics, Run Character Intelligence, Run Location Intelligence, Run Event Intelligence, Open Writing Guidelines, View Full Book, and Back to Section Overview.

Tip: search by feature name such as Sections, Navigator, Switch, Insights, Memory, Diagnostics, Characters, Locations, Events, Guidelines, or Full Book.

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