Activity & Change History

Overview

Every change to your project — whether made by AI tools or by you manually — is recorded on a timeline. You can see exactly what changed, when it changed, and who or what changed it.

Think of it as a running journal of your project. It’s a record you read, not a control panel: the timeline doesn’t roll anything back. To undo something, edit it in the document the normal way (or use Ctrl/Cmd + Z while you’re still in the editor).

The Activity Tab

Open the Activity tab in the right panel of the Writer (alongside Chat and History). This is your project’s complete timeline.

The Timeline

Entries are listed newest-first, grouped by date (Today, Yesterday, and older dates). Each entry sits on a vertical timeline with a connecting rail, similar to a commit history:

• Filled dots are entries that carry a diff — expand them to see exactly what changed.
• Hollow dots are plain activity — quick records like “Portrait generated” or “Imported 12 chapters” with nothing to expand.

Use the All / AI / Manual filter at the top to narrow the feed to AI actions or your own edits.

What an Entry Shows

Every entry shows:

• A summary of what happened (“Edited Character: Elena”, “Rewrote the opening”).
• The source — AI Agent, a manual edit, an import, or a co-work session.
• A timestamp.
• For entries with changes, small count pills (created / modified / deleted) and, for prose, the word delta.

Viewing Diffs

Click any entry with a filled dot to expand it. Each affected field appears with a color-coded badge:

• Created — a new node was added to the project.
• Modified — an existing field was changed.
• Deleted — a node was moved to the trash.

Word-Level Diffs

For modified fields, the change is shown as an inline word-level diff — removed words appear in red with a strikethrough, added words in green, and unchanged text stays neutral. Instead of two blocks of near-identical text, you see precisely which words moved:

• Character, location & worldbuilding fields: name, role, age, pronouns, archetype, backstory, appearance, personality, voice, description, atmosphere.
• Titles: chapter and node renames.
• Chapter prose: what you wrote or rewrote in a session.

The Full Diff View

Long changes — and any chapter prose edit — show a View full diff button. It opens the complete before/after comparison in a comfortable, full-width reading view, so you can review a whole rewritten scene with every word change highlighted in place.

Inline Changes in Chat

When the AI assistant changes your project from chat, the reply carries a small changes badge. Expand it to see the same before/after detail right there in the conversation, without switching to the Activity tab.

What Gets Tracked

Activity is captured from across the platform:

• AI prose tools — Write, Continue, Rewrite, Polish, Describe, Expand, Tone Shift, plugins, and other generation features.
• Manual edits — editing a character, location, or worldbuilding node captures the exact field changes; writing in a chapter captures the prose diff for that session.
• Structure — creating and deleting nodes.
• Imports — bringing a manuscript into the project.
• Co-work sessions — changes made during collaborative editing, captured at session end.
• Comments — inline comments you add to the manuscript.

A couple of things are intentionally not tracked here: switching your model or writing style (the model actually used is recorded with each generation), and chat messages (those live in the Chat and History tabs).

Tips

• Filter to spot-check AI work. After a big run, switch the filter to AI and expand each entry to review the diffs before you keep writing.
• Manual edits are grouped per session. One editing pass on a character or chapter becomes one entry, so the feed reads as a story of how the project evolved — not a flood of keystrokes.
• Very large chapters skip the prose diff. To keep things fast, an editing session on an extremely large chapter is recorded as a word-count entry without a full text diff.
• The timeline never expires. Your history is preserved for as long as the project exists.