Revise a chapter with Ando

Select a passage of your chapter, tell Ando what to change, and review exactly what would change before you apply it. You can undo it afterwards.

When a passage of your chapter isn't working, Ando can rewrite it with you. Select the words, say what you'd like, and Ando proposes a change you can read side by side with your own. Your chapter only changes when you select Apply changes, and you can undo it afterwards. Asking Ando uses AI credits, and works on every plan.

Before you start

Ando revises a passage at a time. Select a sentence, a few sentences or a paragraph or two, and never more than half of the chapter. For a fresh draft of the whole chapter, use Write new version instead (Draft a chapter with Ando).
Ando reads your saved chapter. Storiando saves your chapter before your message goes, so Ando sees the words as they are on your page.

Ask Ando to change a passage

Open the chapter you want to revise (Write and save a chapter shows how).
Select the passage you want to change.
Right-click the selection, or press and hold it on a phone or tablet, and select Ask Ando to change this.
Ando's panel opens with the passage quoted above the message box. Say what you'd like in your own words, such as "Make it tenser", "Cut it to two sentences" or "Show that she's afraid without saying so".
If you like, choose how Ando thinks next to the message box: Swift, Balanced or Deep (Choose Swift, Balanced or Deep).
Press Enter, or select the arrow, to send it.

Under its answer, Ando shows how many credits it used. They're used whether or not you go on to apply the change.

If Storiando says the passage is more than Ando can change in one go, select a paragraph or two and try again. If it says Ando couldn't find exactly that passage, select it again, a little more or less of it.

Or ask without selecting anything

You can also ask about the chapter as a whole and let Ando find what to change.

Open the chapter and select Ando at the top of the page.
Check that the menu under the message box names your chapter. It does when you open Ando from the chapter itself. From any other page of your story, choose the chapter in that menu.
Say what you'd like, such as "Tighten this chapter: cut the repetition", and send it.

Ando reads the whole chapter and picks a few short passages to change, sometimes only one, rather than rewriting all of it. You review its proposal on the same card as below. To work through the rest of the chapter, ask for the next passage once you've applied or rejected this one. When you know exactly which words you want changed, selecting them yourself is the surer way.

Review the proposed change

Ando answers with a Proposed change card, marked Waiting for your review. It says in a sentence what Ando changed, then shows the passage in its place in your chapter:

Now is your chapter as it is, with the words Ando would take out struck through.
After this change is how it would read, with Ando's new words underlined.

A Proposed change card waiting for review, with the old sentences struck through under Now

Nothing in your chapter changes yet. Read it through, then choose:

The new sentences underlined under After this change, with Apply changes, Reject and Ask for changes

Apply changes puts Ando's words into your chapter in place of the ones struck through. The rest of your chapter stays exactly as it was.
Reject leaves your chapter as it is.
Ask for changes starts a message to Ando with the same passage, for you to say what to do differently. Ando's new proposal replaces this one, and this one can then no longer be applied.

Applying, rejecting and undoing use no credits. Only your messages to Ando do, asking for changes included.

Undo a change

Once you apply a change, your chapter shows the new words straight away, and the card says Applied to your story.

The chapter with Ando's new sentences in place, and the card showing Applied to your story with Undo highlighted

To go back, select Undo on the card. Your own words return, and the card says Undone. Your chapter's words are back as they were. Each change can be undone once.

If you've edited Ando's words since you applied them, Storiando won't undo over your edits. Select Ask Ando to change it back instead. Storiando writes the request in the message box for you, and once you send it, Ando proposes putting your earlier words back while keeping what you've written since. You review it like any other change.

If a change can't be applied

You've changed the passage since Ando prepared it. The card says so and leaves your chapter as you left it. Select Ask for an updated proposal, and Ando reads your chapter again.
Ando has made a newer proposal. Only the newest one can be applied. An older card says Ando replaced this with a newer proposal, so it can no longer be applied.
Your latest changes couldn't be saved. Ando can't see them, so Storiando holds your message or the change until they're saved. Check your connection, then select Try saving again.
The connection dropped while you applied it. Storiando checks whether the change went through before offering it again. If it can't tell yet, select Check again.