Getting started

TypeTak is an AI writing editor where you write alongside the agent. Built for novelists and web novelists, it brings your manuscript, your worldbuilding, and the agent into one workspace.

Sign-up and your first Space

You write each work in its own Space. When you sign up, you're asked three things, such as what you write, and if you have a manuscript, you can upload it right there. Press Get started and a Space named after your work's title opens. The manuscript screen is on the left and the chat on the right, and the agent greets you first and suggests where to start based on what you picked. If you uploaded a manuscript, Organize World starts on it along with that first reply.

If you're starting from an idea, tell the agent in the chat what you've got. Open with something like “I want to write a fantasy about a hunter named Mujin and his older brother Raon,” talk it through, then say “add what we've settled so far to the World.” The agent files characters like Mujin and Raon, along with places and lore, into the World.

For another work, create a new Space with New space on Home. To move between Spaces, change a Space's name or icon, or pin or delete one, see Spaces.

The three areas of the screen

The Workspace has three main areas.

• Sidebar: the World and the Manuscript and Documents tabs, plus Writing style, Memo, Archive, and the list of agent conversations. Guidance, Feedback guidance, Skills, and all your writing styles open from Agent customization in the avatar menu at the bottom of the sidebar.
• Editor in the middle: pick a page and write here.
• Right Panel: talk to the agent. You can resize the panel.

You can also open two pages side by side, one left and one right. History and Comments open the same way, as a panel beside the body text.

Writing a story from start to finish

Here is a common way to work in TypeTak, from idea to finished manuscript. The guide is grouped in the same order.

1. Brainstorming: Describe the story in the chat, and the agent files the characters, places, and lore you settle into the World. As chapters pile up, add their new lore to the World with Organize World below the chat input.
2. Drafting: Ask the agent to write the next part. A Draft plan comes first; adjust its outline or length, then press Write as is. Drafts follow the Writing style you set for each manuscript.
3. Revision: Check a whole page with Proofreading and Feedback in the editor toolbar, and work on a sentence with Rephrase and Enhance from the cursor menu.
4. Publish · Share: Show your World and manuscript to other people by link.
5. Export: When the manuscript is done, save it as a file with Export.

To build a whole work step by step in this order, open Walkthrough courses under Resources on Home. This guide opens from the same place.

FAQ

Does the AI write my novel for me?

It writes only the parts you hand it. The agent steps in only when you call it, and you can write and edit all of the manuscript and the World yourself. When you hand it the next part, the agent first shows a Draft plan with the outline and length. Adjust the plan and press Write as is, and it writes to that plan. (Drafting)

Can I write without an internet connection?

TypeTak runs in a browser connected to the internet. If the connection drops while you're writing, what you write in the meantime is kept in this browser and sent to the server once the connection returns. (Autosave)

Can I write on my phone?

Yes. Sign in with the same account in your phone's browser and the Spaces and manuscripts you work on at your computer open there.