Editorial is a Windows editor for the part that comes after the first draft, when inspiration has already done its glorious damage and somebody has to go back and fix the manuscript.

Revise without losing the

good version.

Windows 10/11 - One-time purchase

THE GOOD KIND OF WRITER’S BLOCK

A MANUSCRIPT IS NOT ONE LONG FILE, IT ONLY LOOKS LIKE ONE IN THE END

Every paragraph is a block, and a block remembers more than one version. One is live, the others wait behind it, ready to be compared, robbed for parts, or switched back in at two in the morning when you decide the first one was better after all.

Write the draft. Write the tighter version. Write the one where she is meaner and it is forty words shorter and you are not yet sure you have the nerve to keep it. All three sit in the same block. Flip between them like cards. Take one sentence out of the version you rejected and drop it into the version you kept, then rewrite that, and keep the old one too. Nothing disappears unless you delete it on purpose.

WHY EDITORIAL?

I would take a paragraph that was fine, rewrite it into something I was sure was better, and lose the fine one. Then the next morning I would change my mind, and there was nothing to change it back to. And saving draft_v7_FINAL_FINAL.docx is not a revision system. At best it is a coping mechanism. So I built the editor I wanted. You rewrite the paragraph and the old one does not go anywhere. It sits right there, unbothered, waiting to be proved right. That is the idea. Everything else on this page is a consequence of it.

REVISE LIKE THERE IS NO TOMORROW

Keep multiple versions inside the block where they belong. Try a sharper opening, a quieter exchange, or an AI suggestion without replacing the sentence that already works. • Select the live version. • Compare two drafts with color-coded changes. • Merge the best sentences or individual edits. • Split and join blocks without abandoning their alternatives.

STOP FEEDING AI WITH YOUR MANUSCRIPT

When you do want a second opinion you can ask LLM: something running locally on your machine, or your own API key if you would rather use a cloud provider. The LLM model sees only block fragments, not your entire manuscript and whatever it produces arrives as another version inside the block. It does not quietly replace the one you wrote. You read it, then you decide, how to use it.

With the Interractive Merge you can see clearly what words AI wants to replace and you will be the judge.

Rewrite and Summary handle the daily editing jobs. Simple Chat is for when you want to argue with something or yell at someone. And if you keep doing the same task over and over, build your own editing agent: the Editorial Agent assembles an editing loop visually, or the Script Agent runs a small BASIC-like language so deliberately purposeful that the documented way to write a script is to paste the syntax page into AI chat bot and tell it what you want.

Editorial works great with Local LLM engines such as LM Studio, Olama or llamacpp and local LLM is Cranky Man’s preferred LLM.

NEW IN EDITORIAL 1.6

1.6 is mostly about the long view: Reading Mode, a chapter outline you can navigate, House Style switching, and import and export that argues with you less. The block-level work got tidied rather than rebuilt, on the grounds that it was already the part that worked.

HOUSE STYLE

Switch the document between Prose and Technical presentation across Visual view, Reading Mode, DOCX and PDF.

READING MODE

Read the manuscript in a calm, centered, book-like format.

CHAPTER OUTLINE

Preview chapters, see word counts, jump instantly, or drag an entire chapter to a new position.

• Illuminated openings Add ornamental initials to eligible prose chapter openings, including a classical three-line treatment in PDF. • Import and Publish to DOCX and EPUB Bring existing manuscripts into the block workflow and publish finished books back out. • Prompt Log Inspect what every tool sent to the LLM, which model received it, its size, and the final outcome.

See Release Notes

Version 1.6 (8/3/2026) Editorial 1.6 is a substantial update focused on long-form reading, book-style typography, manuscript navigation, richer importing, and transparent AI-assisted workflows. • House Style: Prose or Technical. A new top-level House Style menu switches the entire document between Prose (indented) and Technical (spaced) paragraph presentation. The choice applies consistently to the Visual block view, Reading Mode, DOCX export, and PDF export. • Reading Mode. The new book-style view removes block cards and presents the manuscript in a centered reading column. Click any paragraph to select and edit its underlying block without leaving the reading page. • Illuminated drop caps. Prose documents can add ornamental initials to eligible chapter openings. Reading Mode uses a compact two- line cap; PDF export uses a classical three-line black-on-white treatment designed for print. • Chapter Outline. A discreet handle on the left edge opens a chapter-level overlay without permanently taking screen space. Outione recognizes both chapter labels and H1 headings, shows a preview plus word, block, and image counts, and highlights the chapter containing your current selection. • Jump or reorder by chapter. Click a Chapter Outline card to jump to it, or drag the card to move the complete chapter as one undoable operation. • Direct DOCX and EPUB import. File → More Import → DOC Files imports Word documents directly into Editorial blocks, including headings, Markdown-compatible structure, and supported embedded images. EPUB books can now be imported in spine order with headings, emphasis, and supported images preserved. • Prompt Log. View → Prompt Log shows the exact messages sent by Rewrite, Summary, Chat, Editorial Agent, Script Agent, and connection tests, together with the model, an approximate token count, and the final outcome. It is now much easier to verify whether lore, summaries, system prompts, or nearby blocks actually reached the model. • Improved connection management. Save, rename, delete, test, and switch among named LLM server configurations. Fetch and filter a server's model list instead of entering every model name manually. • Replace in Blocks. Edit → Replace searches the selected block or the entire document, with Match Case and Whole Word options. • Visual Markdown tables. GFM-style pipe tables render as theme-aware tables in Visual mode, with a bold header, grid, alignment, and wrapped cell text. • Consistent paragraph export. Paragraph boundaries inside a block are no longer joined into a single run-on paragraph during DOCX EPUB or PDF export. Title-page lines also remain separate, matching the structure shown in Editorial. • EPUB and PDF Publish option with Metadata. Version 1.5 (7/4/2026) • Interactive Merge: The new Interactive Merge view compares your block against the model's suggestion as a two-line chip display: click any chip to accept or reject that change, or take whole rewritten sentences in one click. • Merge two versions of a block. The same tool works between a block's own versions via the new Merge Versions button — weave the best sentences of two drafts into one and save the result over the current version or as a new one. A color-coded selector steps through the block's other versions. • Blocks with multiple versions: Split and join now work on any text block, no longer only on single-version blocks. Splitting maps your chosen split point into every version by sentence alignment; joining combines versions slot by slot. • Simple Chat turns the right pane into a plain conversation with your configured LLM - for questions, brainstorming, and research that shouldn't touch the manuscript. • Markdown round trip with images (More Export → Export MD file with images) writes your manuscript as markdown plus every Image block as a PNG in a <name>_images folder, referenced from the text. Image effects are baked into the exported pixels. More Import → MD Files with Images re-imports the markdown and rebuilds the Image blocks — edit your text in any external editor and come back without losing the images. • File safety: Rotating backups on every save (.bak1–.bak3 next to your file), timed autosave to a sidecar file, and crash recovery that offers your latest unsaved changes on the next open. Configure both under Settings → Safety Settings. • Other fixes and small additions Version 1.1 (5/1/2026) • Reworked text import and auto-splitting into a more robust version that preserves markdown structure. (goal is more reliable markdown round trip - like exporting in markdown, then importing it again to editorial) • Markdown headings, lists, tables, code blocks, blockquotes, and dividers are now kept as structural blocks instead of being merged into surrounding text. • Large prose and dialogue blocks are split more evenly at natural line or sentence boundaries. • Short prose fragments are merged more intelligently, while dialogue stays separate from narration. • Improved chapter-heading detection to reduce false positives such as normal sentences starting with “Part” or “Book”. • Added Settings > Text Chunking controls for merge length, maximum block length, heading demotion, and prose chapter detection. • Fixed markdown tables being split across multiple blocks during import.