Reviewing Suggestions

Reading the suggested changes before you accept them is the habit that makes Collaborator safe to use. Collaborator proposes and you decide, and this page explains what the list shows you and what each of your choices does.

The Property Updates list

After a run, the center of the window fills with a list headed Proposed property updates. Each row is one field on one story element, for example, the Premise on the Overview or the protagonist’s Goal on a Problem, with the proposed text beside it. The header counts the rows, and the line above the list tells you how many of them would replace text you wrote. A line that reads 3 property update(s) proposed. 1 would replace text you wrote means three proposals are waiting, of which two will apply on their own when you click Accept All and one will not change until you confirm it.

A Property Updates list headed 'Proposed property updates (3: 0 free, 3 need review)', each row showing a field name, its type, and the proposed text

What the row labels mean

Under each field name is a label saying how Collaborator classified the field against what your outline already holds.

Label	What it means	What Accept All does
New	The field is empty	Applies it
Refresh	Collaborator wrote this field earlier in the same session	Applies it
Has your text	You, or your past edits, already filled the field	Asks first. Replace writes the proposal; Cancel keeps your words
Update	A field that holds a list rather than a single value, so there is nothing to compare line for line	Applies it

The New, Refresh, and Update rows are the free ones, and the Has your text rows are the ones that would replace text you wrote. This is how your writing is protected when you run a workflow a second time on a half-filled outline: a field you filled yourself, or accepted earlier and then edited, is never replaced without asking you first.

A single Property Updates row: the field name Weather, the label New beneath it, and the proposed text alongside

Accept All

The Accept All button sits at the foot of the list. It updates every New, Refresh, and Update row. If any Has your text rows are waiting, it first asks whether to replace them: Replace writes those too, and Cancel leaves your text alone. Use it when you start from empty fields and want the first pass written quickly. Afterwards, open the same element in StoryCAD and skim the form; the text is already there.

Review Each

Click Review Each on the top bar to walk the list one field at a time. For each field the card shows Yours, the text in your outline now, and Proposed, what Collaborator suggests, with a count such as 1 of 6 so you know where you are. Three buttons follow. Accept writes the proposal into this field only. Skip keeps yours and drops the proposal. Accept Free Remaining applies to every remaining New, Refresh, and Update row in one step and leaves the remaining Has your text fields for you to Accept or Skip one by one.

Accept Free Remaining is not the same as accepting every empty field. It also applies the Refresh rows, the fields Collaborator wrote earlier in this session, and it never overwrites a Has your text field in bulk.

A Review Property Update card: the field name, Yours reading empty, the proposed text below it, and Accept, Skip, and Accept Free Remaining buttons, marked 1 of 6

Try Again

Try Again on the top bar discards the waiting set and runs the same workflow again; Running a Workflow describes it. Use it instead of accepting a weak pass and editing afterward.

Nothing is permanent until you accept it.

Closing Collaborator without accepting leaves the fields as they were. Accepting writes the text into your outline at once, so there is nothing further to do to keep it, and if you accept a suggestion and dislike it later, edit the field in StoryCAD as you would any other text. The system does not lock you in.