Consistency Check

The Consistency Check (⌘6) runs an AI-powered analysis across your entire manuscript to find continuity errors that are easy to miss in a long-form project. Run it at any stage of writing, but it's most valuable after completing a full draft.

Running a Scan

1. Press ⌘6 or click Consistency in the left sidebar.
2. Click Run Scan.
3. The AI reads every scene in the project and identifies potential issues. A progress indicator shows while the scan runs.
4. When complete, the report appears with a timestamp and total issue count.

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Scans take 1–3 minutes depending on manuscript length. The app remains usable during the scan.

Issue Types

The scanner looks for four categories of problems:

Character Contradictions

Traits, abilities, knowledge, or history that conflict between scenes. For example: a character who can't swim in Chapter 2 but swims expertly in Chapter 8; a character who "never drinks" but orders wine in a later scene.

Timeline Issues

Events that happen in an impossible order or with inconsistent timing. For example: a character attends a funeral on Tuesday but the scene that follows says she "arrived in the city yesterday" on what the previous scene established as Wednesday.

Unresolved Plot Threads

Setups that never pay off, or plot points explicitly established and then dropped. For example: a character finds a key in Chapter 3 and the narrative draws attention to it, but it's never used or mentioned again.

Tone Drift

Scenes that shift tone in ways that feel jarring or unintentional given the surrounding chapters. For example: a chapter of quiet, literary prose followed by a scene written in a breezy commercial voice.

Severity Levels

Each issue is assigned a severity level:

Severity	Label	Color	Action
3	High	Red	Significant continuity break — fix before any draft is shared
2	Medium	Amber	Noticeable inconsistency — fix before final draft
1	Low	Gray	Minor detail — address at your discretion

Filtering

Use the filter controls at the top of the issue list to narrow what you see:

• By type — Character, Timeline, Plot, Tone
• By severity — High (3), Medium (2), Low (1)

Filtering helps you work through issues systematically, starting with high-severity items.

Resolving Issues

Each issue card shows:

• The affected scene title
• The type and severity
• A plain-language description of the problem

You have three options for each issue:

1. Fix manually — Go to the scene in the Manuscript view, make your changes, then come back to the Consistency view and click Mark as Resolved.
2. Dismiss — Click Dismiss to mark the issue as a false positive. Dismissed issues are hidden from the list but can be restored by toggling "Show dismissed".
3. AI Fix Suggestion — Click Suggest Fix. The AI analyzes the issue and proposes a specific edit. Review the suggestion and click Accept to apply it, or Dismiss to ignore it.

Per-Scene Badges

In the Manuscript view, scenes with unresolved consistency issues display an amber warning badge next to the scene title. The badge shows the issue count. Click it to jump to the Consistency view filtered to that scene.

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Run a consistency scan after completing your first full draft, and again after any major structural revision. Issues caught early — before you've written 20 more scenes on top of them — are much easier to fix.