Help & Tutorial

1. Getting started

Novelixia is software for writing a book that organizes your ideas without replacing you. Create a free account and start writing.

1. Sign up — create an account with your email.
2. Create a project — give it a title, choose a genre and an era.
3. Fill in the narrative arc — describe the story in a few sentences.
4. Generate characters — let the AI suggest protagonists and antagonists.
5. Write — use the editor to write your novel.

2. Le projet

Each novel is a project. From the dashboard, you manage all your projects.

Project tabs

• Project — genre, era, narrative arc, subplots, climax, themes.
• Universe — temporal and spatial setting, world rules, culture, economy, fauna, language.
• Characters — protagonists and antagonists with detailed sheets.
• Style — tone, language level, point of view, verb tense, rhythm.
• Structure — chapters and scenes organized visually.
• Timeline — events in chronological order.
• Organization — writing goals, word count tracking.
• AI chat — ask questions about your project.

3. Personnages

Create detailed sheets for each character. The AI can generate characters consistent with your universe.

AI generation

Click the ✨ button in the protagonists or antagonists tab. The AI analyzes your narrative arc, themes and universe to suggest credible characters.

Character types

• Main character — the hero of the story.
• Secondary character — an ally or important figure.
• Tertiary character — a more minor role.

Each sheet contains physical fields (eyes, hair, height…), personality traits, a detailed description, and free notes.

4. Univers

The Universe tab lets you build the world of your novel:

• Temporal setting — era, year, season, story duration.
• Spatial setting — main location, scenery, geography.
• World rules — magic, technology, special physical laws.
• Culture — customs, beliefs, social hierarchies.
• Economy — currency, trade, resources.
• Fauna & flora — creatures, plants, ecosystems.
• Language — dialects, registers, proper names.
• Locations — detailed sheets for each important location.
• Objects — magical objects or important ones for the plot.

The AI uses this information to generate content consistent with your universe.

5. Intrigue & structure

Define the narrative structure of your novel.

Structure templates

• 3 acts — the classic structure: exposition, confrontation, resolution.
• Hero's Journey — Campbell's monomyth in 12 steps.
• Save the Cat — Blake Snyder's method in 15 beats.

You can also create your own structure manually via the mind map.

Mind map

The "Map" tab displays a graphic view of your structure. You can move, connect and organize your chapters and scenes visually.

6. Timeline

The timeline lists all the events of your novel in chronological order. Each event can have:

• Day — day number in the story.
• Moment — dawn, morning, noon, afternoon, evening, night.
• Title — name of the scene or chapter.
• Location — where the event takes place.
• Characters present — who takes part in the scene.
• Objective — what the scene must accomplish.
• Tags — keywords for filtering.
• Content — the written text of the scene.

The AI can help you generate events consistent with your narrative arc.

7. Édition

The editor is the heart of Novelixia. It lets you write the content of each event.

Toolbar

• B / I / U — bold, italic, underline.
• P / H2–H5 — paragraph, headings.
• Alignment — left, center, right, justified.
• — « » • — dashes, guillemets, bullet points.
• 🔍 Search — in "More options".

Focus mode

Focus mode offers a clean interface without distractions. Dark background to help concentration.

Preview

Preview mode concatenates all chapters and events for continuous reading. Ideal for rereading your novel.

Print

Available in preview mode. A4 format with margins, automatic chapter breaks.

8. Organisation

The Organization tab helps you track your progress.

• Daily goal — number of words to write per day.
• Total goal — target number of words for the novel.
• Tracking — start tracking to see your progress over time.
• Writing calendar — visualize the days you wrote.
• Statistics — number of words per day, 7/30/90-day average, writing time.
• Words per chapter — distribution of text between chapters.

9. Assistant IA

The AI assists you everywhere in the app.

In the editor

• Rewrite — rewrites the selection in a different style.
• Improve the style — suggests a more fluid version.
• Make it more vivid — adds descriptions and rhythm.
• Fix mistakes — spelling and grammar.
• Continue — the AI writes the rest of your text.
• Summarize the chapter — generates a summary.
• Feedback — the AI analyzes and comments on your chapter.
• Check consistency — detects inconsistencies.
• Detect repetitions — finds overused words.

Contextual AI chat

Ask questions about your project. The AI has access to all the data (characters, universe, plot) to answer accurately.

10. Export & sauvegarde

Available for pro subscribers.

Export formats

• DOCX — Microsoft Word 2007+.
• ODT — LibreOffice / OpenOffice.
• PDF — paginated A4 format.
• TXT — UTF-8 plain text.
• Markdown — for Markdown editing tools.
• EPUB — e-readers, Kindle.
• HTML — standalone web page.

Full backup

JSON export containing all the project data: characters, universe, timeline, manuscript. Allows a complete restore.

11. Partage

Share your project with other users for read-only consultation.

• From the dashboard, click on Share.
• Enter the email of the person to share with.
• The recipient receives read-only access to the whole project.
• Both users can add comments and pins on the text.
• Use the 🔗 Share a link button in the comments to share an external resource.

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