0.9.0 — The threads

The story threads view learns three things a reader feels before they can name them: a promise and where it is kept, a phrase reached for once too often, and a contradiction the story means. Everything offline unless you ask the local model.

• Story threads: directed threads. A stop line in Story threads.md may start with plant:, touch:, payoff: or reversal: and carry one "quoted sentence" that anchors the stop to that sentence; every thread written before reads the same. Directed arcs end in an arrow; a plant with no payoff draws a stub and is listed in the panel; a quote that no longer matches is reported like a dead link. Promise and Pays off on an arc's card set the roles.
• Story threads: This is a reversal on a contradiction's card. The change the story means becomes a directed thread of yours, plant and reversal anchored to the model's quotes, and the pair leaves the red count without a dismissal. Dismiss is now only for two ways of saying one thing.
• Story threads: the echo finder. A fourth thread kind, off by default, hears what recurs across the whole project, offline: a run of words that comes back in different paragraphs, reported whole, and two sentences that say nearly the same thing in different words. Names and dialogue tags never make one; a repeat inside one paragraph stays the editor's. The card shows both ends, the distance, and whether it is a tic (close) or a habit (spread over the book); near pairs rank first. Keep as a motif writes the echo into Story threads.md as a thread of yours and it stops being a finding; so does any phrase you quote in a thread. Follow one echo… in the panel, an Echoes strip, and Settings → Story threads → Echo sensitivity (low, medium, high).
• Story threads: Read contradictions for intent. The local model reads each open contradiction — both quotes with their paragraphs, in order — and says whether it is a reversal the story intends, an error, or the same thing said twice, with a reason. The verdict is a line on the card and a proposal only: Accept as a reversal writes the directed thread, nothing is explained or dismissed on the model's say-so. Kept in Story map.md by the contradiction's key.
• Story threads: Read project for echoes, the echo finder's semantic tier. Every sentence of eight words or more is embedded by the local model (Settings → Model assistant → Ollama embedding model, nomic-embed-text by default) and the pairs that say the same thing in unrelated words join the echoes. Only the pairs are stored, with each scene's hash; stale pairs are counted and left out until the next read. Story map.md is version 3.
• Writing desk: an Echoes list for the active note's project, habits first, a click opening the first occurrence.
• Manuscript: an Echoes toggle (Settings → Manuscript → Echoes on the page) marks every sentence holding a repeated phrase with a purple dot in the gutter, naming the nearest other place the words occur; a click takes the page there.
• Manuscript: with Story on, an anchored plant is an orange mark in the gutter at its sentence, a payoff or reversal a green one, each naming the other end; a click takes the page there.
• Manuscript: a reading-time estimate next to the word count at the top of the page (4 h 5 min to read) and beside each section's title, at 250 words a minute by default. Settings → Manuscript → Reading speed sets the pace.