Novel Visual Studio

Working alpha

Write Markdown scenes while an in-process engine keeps your narrative ledgers surfaced as panels: threads, cast presence, coherence, reveals. Your story stays plain files.

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UI and UX preview

Every image below is NVS reading Romance of the Three Kingdoms, all 120 scenes of it. These are real screenshots of the engine's output, not mockups, and the numbers in each caption are visible in the shot.

The NVS editor: a chapter tree on the left, dialogue-led Markdown scenes in the centre, and analysis rails down the right
Write in Markdown, keep the rails openScenes stay plain files. The chapter tree, the prose, and the reader's ledgers sit in one window.
A gantt of plot threads across three volumes, each thread a coloured span from the scene that opens it to the scene that resolves it
Every plot thread, whole story1 still open, 55 resolved. Each span runs from the scene that opens a thread to the one that pays it off.
The coherence rail listing a contradiction, two gaps, and three plot holes flagged as continuity errors
The continuity copThree plot holes found, including Zhuge Liang, Liu Bei and Cao Cao each dying twice.
A grid of 41 characters against the scene axis, cells lit where a character is present, with a ranked list of speaking volume beside it
Who actually carries the story41 characters ranked by how much they speak. Zhuge Liang leads at 21.9K characters, ahead of Cao Cao and Liu Bei.
A custody chart for the horse Red Hare, showing bands for each holder and the scenes where it changes hands
Who is holding the thing, and since whenRed Hare changes hands across 5 checkpoints: Dong Zhuo, then Lu Bu, then Cao Cao, then Guan Yu.
Every character in the story drawn as one network graph, nodes sized by speaking volume and coloured by faction
The whole cast, as one pictureAll 41 characters as a graph. Node size is how much they speak, colour is their faction, edges are shared scenes.
Two character lists flanking a shared scene spine, showing every chapter where the selected pair appear together
How two characters relate, scene by scenePick any pair and every scene they share lines up, with the chapters cited.

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Free, runs on your own machine, and no account required with us.

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  • Free, with no paid tier
  • No account, no sign-up
  • Start writing immediately
Local-first
Your prose and its analysis are plain Markdown files on your disk. We run no server and collect nothing. AI is optional and uses your own key.
Open source
AGPL-3.0, public at GitHub. Builds are unsigned, so every OS shows a first-run warning you can click past.

No project yet? Borrow a classic. The in-app Store pulls from GitHub NVS Datasets, so you can open something you already know, like Alice in Wonderland or Journey to the West, and see how the machine read a whole book.

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