🚀 Big Releases

• NaNoWriMo integration — added a brand new integration to sync your Novlr projects directly with NaNoWriMo. It updates your word count with every save and tracks your goal in Novlr, showing you the percentage achieved and your target daily word count

🪡 Improvements

• Formatting on touch devices — touchscreen and mobile device users will now see their formatting options at the top of the screen instead of being obscured by the touch functions native to their OS

• Better commenting — inline comments now show a gentle highlight by default whenever they are applied and can be turned on and off. If you select a comment in the text, or select a comment in the sidebar, your screen will scroll to the selected comment. For screens larger than mobile, the comment sidebar now opens when an inline comment is clicked

• Share feature — removed sharing from the chapter section of the writing sidebar to unclutter the chapter menus. You will now find the share button next to “Export” on your project home page

• Archive button — because archiving is only available to Novlr Pro users, the option was not showing for users on Novlr’s standard tier. To clarify this function, the archive button is now visible to all users

• Loading icon — when a chapter is loading, you will now see a loading symbol showing that the app is still working in the background

• Sidebar animation — improved the design of the right sidebar, so it now opens with a slide animation

🪲 Bug Fixes

• Highlighting text — highlighting text via click and drag from the bottom to the top no longer prevents scrolling when it reaches the formatting bar

• Logo flashing — the Novlr logo in the sidebar menu will no longer flash and shift when switching pages

• Correct analytics — Over NaNoWriMo, the increased number of users we saw visiting the site, mixed with the NaNoWriMo integration, highlighted issues with how we captured word count data to update our analytics. These issues have now been corrected, and analytics will display the correct word counts. We have force-recalculated everyone’s analytics to ensure all users now have accurate statistics

• Offline commits counting twice — analytics will no longer show inflated numbers due to offline commits counting twice toward their totals

• NaNoWriMo integration error — when we first set up the integration with NaNoWriMo, the API calls counted commits multiple times resulting in inflated word counts. we have streamlined this so all future syncs will show the correct word count, and will reactively correct any incorrect number previously sent to NaNo’s servers

• Deleting curly quotes — curly quotation marks will now delete after one backspace instead of requiring two

• Correct timezones — goals and analytics will now update for the correct time zones based on user location