4.0.18 (Release)

Bug Fixes

• Crash when inserting a Scene Heading after editing snippet title or synopsis.
• Docked timeline wouldn't show after having been collapsed in full screen script or whiteboard
• Crash when undoing after moving objects around in the whiteboard.
• Crash when creating a new tag while the default tag category is missing.
• Crash in "AI: Write Scene".
• Crash when pressing ENTER in the replace field of the search/replace dialog while the search field is empty.

4.0.17 (Release)

Causality 4.0 is the culmination of several years of rewrites. The app is now in super shape, and ready for the future, and we apologize for the slow release schedule.

Click here to download the Terminator 2 script for a demonstration of Emotion Tracking and all the new features.

New Features

• Emotion Tracking:
  • Assign emotional changes to Tags on each Beat.
  • Draws graphs of emotional movement in timeline.
  • Manually or automatically add tension to beats.
  • View overall story tension in a Heat Map.
  • Set targets on emotions and "write backwards" from targets.
• Tag Categories.
• Emotion Tracks / Tag Tracks.
• Popup tag inspector / emotion editor.
• Research area is now a separate window and button.
• Next/Previous Beat buttons and keyboard shortcuts.
• Index cards display mode for script
• Apple Silicon, Windows 11 ARM and Linux ARM versions.

Improvements

• Significantly rebuilt engine in preparation for sync/collaboration.
• Significant performance increase across entire app.
• AI moved to GPT-4o, language adherence improved.
• Mini Timeline: The mini timeline in full-screen script or whiteboard has been revamped to be a full, collapsible timeline, giving you access to emotions directly in the script or whiteboard views.
• New fluid animation algorithms in all areas.
• Overhauled styling and colors.
• Overhauled script filtering.
• Save and restore script and whiteboard positions when closing/reopening documents.
• Fade script menus in and out.
• Better mouse/keyboard-blocking of areas behind dialogs and menus.
• Automatically close splash screen.
• Updated Mac application icon.
• Overhauled drag and drop in whiteboard.
• Fluid edge scrolling in all areas.
• Better vertical flow lines.
• Explanation dialogs when dropping Beats/Groups/Blocks in incorrect places.
• Fixed Production Locations showing in reading view.
• Alternating row tint in whiteboard.
• Continuous, animated page scrolling in script using keyboard.
• Simplified whiteboard tool area.
• Automatically update detection words when character name is edited in Character Settings.
• Improved tooltips.
• Made all beats same width in whiteboard.
• Group and Block edge scrolling
• Better dialog positioning, moving between windows
• Ctrl/Cmd+E Shortcut to open beat editor

Bug Fixes

• Empty character names were detected as "Untitled" characters
• Research beats didn't locate beats in whiteboard/script when clicked.
• Spell check color didn't update when switching between day/night mode.
• New Character… should be at the beginning of menus.
• Could no longer create Character Groups in Timeline or Research.
• Whiteboard would jump when using other monitors
• Full screen windows would lose title bars on Windows.
• Crash on window dock.
• When in research you could no longer double click on a research item to open the beat or character editors.
• Double clicking on a .cau file in Finder opened Causality, but didn't actually open the document.
• Paragraph style changes weren't saved.
• Crash when clicking expand/collapse all folders in Research.
• Windows would jump to front on Linux, and couldn't be moved behind main window on all other platforms.
• Incorrect scene heading color on new beats in night mode.
• Script layout didn't react to page margin changes.
• Incorrect script colors (black text on black background) when starting app in dark mode
• Fixed scene heading font and size in the script.
• Crash: disable the "Group" shortcut (Ctrl+G/Cmd+G) outside the whiteboard.
• Crash: Don't allow inserting scene headings on non-beat timeslices.
• Automatic sizing in Color Picker
• Update search result highlighting when closing or clearing the search window.
• Soft coloring wasn't disabled in menu in night mode
• Color picker didn't highlight existing color
• Click anywhere in large text edit fields to select them
• Cleaned up and harmonized Research menus.

Removed

• Removed character canvas.
• Removed block overviews and lane overviews.
• Removed permanent inspector on right side of screen.
• Removed readability curves.
• Removed whiteboard grid snapping.
• Removed scene bar above whiteboard.
• Removed exporting whiteboard image. Can result in multi-gigabyte PNGs.
• Removed "Hidden" state of Beats. Beats are now only Enabled and Disabled.
• Removed graphics shown when hovering on flow lines.
• Removed running man icon in whiteboard. We always synchronize views.
• Removed full screen button in standalone windows for Script, Whiteboard.
• Removed "in a sequence" property for research folders.

4.0.16 (Beta)

New Features:

• Index cards display mode for script

Improvements:

• Shortcut to open beat editor

Bug Fixes:

• Crash when navigating the menus on Mac while the app is showing the recovery dialog after a crash.
• Find window didn't always grow with search results
• Zoom sub-menu in Script menu was empty
• Gray area when whiteboard moved into separate window
• Tag menu in beat editor had incorrect checkmarks
• Unable to move/rearrange lanes.
• crash when inserting a scene heading after editing a snippet.
• visual glitches when inserting/removing a beat in the whiteboard.

4.0.15 (Beta)

Bug Fixes

• Crash when removing the last inserted beat usage on a tag.

4.0.14 (Beta)

Improvements

• AI moved to GPT-4o, language adherence improved
• Group and Block edge scrolling
• Better dialog positioning, moving between windows

Bug Fixes

• Update search result highlighting when closing or clearing the search window.
• When the app starts up the timeline is all bunched up at the beginning.
• Soft coloring wasn't disabled in menu in night mode
• Automatic sizing in Color Picker
• Color picker didn't highlight existing color
• Text edit width in Research
• Click anywhere in large text edit fields to select them
• Color picker in Style menu was clipped
• Research Window toggle didn't show correct state
• Cleaned up and harmonize Research menus.
• Removed "in a sequence" property for research folders.

4.0.18 (Release)

Bug Fixes

• Crash when inserting a Scene Heading after editing snippet title or synopsis.
• Docked timeline wouldn't show after having been collapsed in full screen script or whiteboard
• Crash when undoing after moving objects around in the whiteboard.
• Crash when creating a new tag while the default tag category is missing.
• Crash in "AI: Write Scene".
• Crash when pressing ENTER in the replace field of the search/replace dialog while the search field is empty.

4.0.17 (Release)

Causality 4.0 is the culmination of several years of rewrites. The app is now in super shape, and ready for the future, and we apologize for the slow release schedule.

Click here to download the Terminator 2 script for a demonstration of Emotion Tracking and all the new features.

New Features

• Emotion Tracking:
  • Assign emotional changes to Tags on each Beat.
  • Draws graphs of emotional movement in timeline.
  • Manually or automatically add tension to beats.
  • View overall story tension in a Heat Map.
  • Set targets on emotions and "write backwards" from targets.
• Tag Categories.
• Emotion Tracks / Tag Tracks.
• Popup tag inspector / emotion editor.
• Research area is now a separate window and button.
• Next/Previous Beat buttons and keyboard shortcuts.
• Index cards display mode for script
• Apple Silicon, Windows 11 ARM and Linux ARM versions.

Improvements

• Significantly rebuilt engine in preparation for sync/collaboration.
• Significant performance increase across entire app.
• AI moved to GPT-4o, language adherence improved.
• Mini Timeline: The mini timeline in full-screen script or whiteboard has been revamped to be a full, collapsible timeline, giving you access to emotions directly in the script or whiteboard views.
• New fluid animation algorithms in all areas.
• Overhauled styling and colors.
• Overhauled script filtering.
• Save and restore script and whiteboard positions when closing/reopening documents.
• Fade script menus in and out.
• Better mouse/keyboard-blocking of areas behind dialogs and menus.
• Automatically close splash screen.
• Updated Mac application icon.
• Overhauled drag and drop in whiteboard.
• Fluid edge scrolling in all areas.
• Better vertical flow lines.
• Explanation dialogs when dropping Beats/Groups/Blocks in incorrect places.
• Fixed Production Locations showing in reading view.
• Alternating row tint in whiteboard.
• Continuous, animated page scrolling in script using keyboard.
• Simplified whiteboard tool area.
• Automatically update detection words when character name is edited in Character Settings.
• Improved tooltips.
• Made all beats same width in whiteboard.
• Group and Block edge scrolling
• Better dialog positioning, moving between windows
• Ctrl/Cmd+E Shortcut to open beat editor

Bug Fixes

• Empty character names were detected as "Untitled" characters
• Research beats didn't locate beats in whiteboard/script when clicked.
• Spell check color didn't update when switching between day/night mode.
• New Character… should be at the beginning of menus.
• Could no longer create Character Groups in Timeline or Research.
• Whiteboard would jump when using other monitors
• Full screen windows would lose title bars on Windows.
• Crash on window dock.
• When in research you could no longer double click on a research item to open the beat or character editors.
• Double clicking on a .cau file in Finder opened Causality, but didn't actually open the document.
• Paragraph style changes weren't saved.
• Crash when clicking expand/collapse all folders in Research.
• Windows would jump to front on Linux, and couldn't be moved behind main window on all other platforms.
• Incorrect scene heading color on new beats in night mode.
• Script layout didn't react to page margin changes.
• Incorrect script colors (black text on black background) when starting app in dark mode
• Fixed scene heading font and size in the script.
• Crash: disable the "Group" shortcut (Ctrl+G/Cmd+G) outside the whiteboard.
• Crash: Don't allow inserting scene headings on non-beat timeslices.
• Automatic sizing in Color Picker
• Update search result highlighting when closing or clearing the search window.
• Soft coloring wasn't disabled in menu in night mode
• Color picker didn't highlight existing color
• Click anywhere in large text edit fields to select them
• Cleaned up and harmonized Research menus.

Removed

• Removed character canvas.
• Removed block overviews and lane overviews.
• Removed permanent inspector on right side of screen.
• Removed readability curves.
• Removed whiteboard grid snapping.
• Removed scene bar above whiteboard.
• Removed exporting whiteboard image. Can result in multi-gigabyte PNGs.
• Removed "Hidden" state of Beats. Beats are now only Enabled and Disabled.
• Removed graphics shown when hovering on flow lines.
• Removed running man icon in whiteboard. We always synchronize views.
• Removed full screen button in standalone windows for Script, Whiteboard.
• Removed "in a sequence" property for research folders.

4.0.16 (Beta)

New Features:

• Index cards display mode for script

Improvements:

• Shortcut to open beat editor

Bug Fixes:

• Crash when navigating the menus on Mac while the app is showing the recovery dialog after a crash.
• Find window didn't always grow with search results
• Zoom sub-menu in Script menu was empty
• Gray area when whiteboard moved into separate window
• Tag menu in beat editor had incorrect checkmarks
• Unable to move/rearrange lanes.
• crash when inserting a scene heading after editing a snippet.
• visual glitches when inserting/removing a beat in the whiteboard.

4.0.15 (Beta)

Bug Fixes

• Crash when removing the last inserted beat usage on a tag.

4.0.14 (Beta)

Improvements

• AI moved to GPT-4o, language adherence improved
• Group and Block edge scrolling
• Better dialog positioning, moving between windows

Bug Fixes

• Update search result highlighting when closing or clearing the search window.
• When the app starts up the timeline is all bunched up at the beginning.
• Soft coloring wasn't disabled in menu in night mode
• Automatic sizing in Color Picker
• Color picker didn't highlight existing color
• Text edit width in Research
• Click anywhere in large text edit fields to select them
• Color picker in Style menu was clipped
• Research Window toggle didn't show correct state
• Cleaned up and harmonize Research menus.
• Removed "in a sequence" property for research folders.

4.0.18 (Release)

Bug Fixes

• Crash when inserting a Scene Heading after editing snippet title or synopsis.
• Docked timeline wouldn't show after having been collapsed in full screen script or whiteboard
• Crash when undoing after moving objects around in the whiteboard.
• Crash when creating a new tag while the default tag category is missing.
• Crash in "AI: Write Scene".
• Crash when pressing ENTER in the replace field of the search/replace dialog while the search field is empty.

4.0.17 (Release)

Causality 4.0 is the culmination of several years of rewrites. The app is now in super shape, and ready for the future, and we apologize for the slow release schedule.

Click here to download the Terminator 2 script for a demonstration of Emotion Tracking and all the new features.

New Features

• Emotion Tracking:
  • Assign emotional changes to Tags on each Beat.
  • Draws graphs of emotional movement in timeline.
  • Manually or automatically add tension to beats.
  • View overall story tension in a Heat Map.
  • Set targets on emotions and "write backwards" from targets.
• Tag Categories.
• Emotion Tracks / Tag Tracks.
• Popup tag inspector / emotion editor.
• Research area is now a separate window and button.
• Next/Previous Beat buttons and keyboard shortcuts.
• Index cards display mode for script
• Apple Silicon, Windows 11 ARM and Linux ARM versions.

Improvements

• Significantly rebuilt engine in preparation for sync/collaboration.
• Significant performance increase across entire app.
• AI moved to GPT-4o, language adherence improved.
• Mini Timeline: The mini timeline in full-screen script or whiteboard has been revamped to be a full, collapsible timeline, giving you access to emotions directly in the script or whiteboard views.
• New fluid animation algorithms in all areas.
• Overhauled styling and colors.
• Overhauled script filtering.
• Save and restore script and whiteboard positions when closing/reopening documents.
• Fade script menus in and out.
• Better mouse/keyboard-blocking of areas behind dialogs and menus.
• Automatically close splash screen.
• Updated Mac application icon.
• Overhauled drag and drop in whiteboard.
• Fluid edge scrolling in all areas.
• Better vertical flow lines.
• Explanation dialogs when dropping Beats/Groups/Blocks in incorrect places.
• Fixed Production Locations showing in reading view.
• Alternating row tint in whiteboard.
• Continuous, animated page scrolling in script using keyboard.
• Simplified whiteboard tool area.
• Automatically update detection words when character name is edited in Character Settings.
• Improved tooltips.
• Made all beats same width in whiteboard.
• Group and Block edge scrolling
• Better dialog positioning, moving between windows
• Ctrl/Cmd+E Shortcut to open beat editor

Bug Fixes

• Empty character names were detected as "Untitled" characters
• Research beats didn't locate beats in whiteboard/script when clicked.
• Spell check color didn't update when switching between day/night mode.
• New Character… should be at the beginning of menus.
• Could no longer create Character Groups in Timeline or Research.
• Whiteboard would jump when using other monitors
• Full screen windows would lose title bars on Windows.
• Crash on window dock.
• When in research you could no longer double click on a research item to open the beat or character editors.
• Double clicking on a .cau file in Finder opened Causality, but didn't actually open the document.
• Paragraph style changes weren't saved.
• Crash when clicking expand/collapse all folders in Research.
• Windows would jump to front on Linux, and couldn't be moved behind main window on all other platforms.
• Incorrect scene heading color on new beats in night mode.
• Script layout didn't react to page margin changes.
• Incorrect script colors (black text on black background) when starting app in dark mode
• Fixed scene heading font and size in the script.
• Crash: disable the "Group" shortcut (Ctrl+G/Cmd+G) outside the whiteboard.
• Crash: Don't allow inserting scene headings on non-beat timeslices.
• Automatic sizing in Color Picker
• Update search result highlighting when closing or clearing the search window.
• Soft coloring wasn't disabled in menu in night mode
• Color picker didn't highlight existing color
• Click anywhere in large text edit fields to select them
• Cleaned up and harmonized Research menus.

Removed

• Removed character canvas.
• Removed block overviews and lane overviews.
• Removed permanent inspector on right side of screen.
• Removed readability curves.
• Removed whiteboard grid snapping.
• Removed scene bar above whiteboard.
• Removed exporting whiteboard image. Can result in multi-gigabyte PNGs.
• Removed "Hidden" state of Beats. Beats are now only Enabled and Disabled.
• Removed graphics shown when hovering on flow lines.
• Removed running man icon in whiteboard. We always synchronize views.
• Removed full screen button in standalone windows for Script, Whiteboard.
• Removed "in a sequence" property for research folders.

4.0.16 (Beta)

New Features:

• Index cards display mode for script

Improvements:

• Shortcut to open beat editor

Bug Fixes:

• Crash when navigating the menus on Mac while the app is showing the recovery dialog after a crash.
• Find window didn't always grow with search results
• Zoom sub-menu in Script menu was empty
• Gray area when whiteboard moved into separate window
• Tag menu in beat editor had incorrect checkmarks
• Unable to move/rearrange lanes.
• crash when inserting a scene heading after editing a snippet.
• visual glitches when inserting/removing a beat in the whiteboard.

4.0.15 (Beta)

Bug Fixes

• Crash when removing the last inserted beat usage on a tag.

4.0.14 (Beta)

Improvements

• AI moved to GPT-4o, language adherence improved
• Group and Block edge scrolling
• Better dialog positioning, moving between windows

Bug Fixes

• Update search result highlighting when closing or clearing the search window.
• When the app starts up the timeline is all bunched up at the beginning.
• Soft coloring wasn't disabled in menu in night mode
• Automatic sizing in Color Picker
• Color picker didn't highlight existing color
• Text edit width in Research
• Click anywhere in large text edit fields to select them
• Color picker in Style menu was clipped
• Research Window toggle didn't show correct state
• Cleaned up and harmonize Research menus.
• Removed "in a sequence" property for research folders.

4.0.18 (Release)

Bug Fixes

• Crash when inserting a Scene Heading after editing snippet title or synopsis.
• Docked timeline wouldn't show after having been collapsed in full screen script or whiteboard
• Crash when undoing after moving objects around in the whiteboard.
• Crash when creating a new tag while the default tag category is missing.
• Crash in "AI: Write Scene".
• Crash when pressing ENTER in the replace field of the search/replace dialog while the search field is empty.

4.0.17 (Release)

Causality 4.0 is the culmination of several years of rewrites. The app is now in super shape, and ready for the future, and we apologize for the slow release schedule.

Click here to download the Terminator 2 script for a demonstration of Emotion Tracking and all the new features.

New Features

• Emotion Tracking:
  • Assign emotional changes to Tags on each Beat.
  • Draws graphs of emotional movement in timeline.
  • Manually or automatically add tension to beats.
  • View overall story tension in a Heat Map.
  • Set targets on emotions and "write backwards" from targets.
• Tag Categories.
• Emotion Tracks / Tag Tracks.
• Popup tag inspector / emotion editor.
• Research area is now a separate window and button.
• Next/Previous Beat buttons and keyboard shortcuts.
• Index cards display mode for script
• Apple Silicon, Windows 11 ARM and Linux ARM versions.

Improvements

• Significantly rebuilt engine in preparation for sync/collaboration.
• Significant performance increase across entire app.
• AI moved to GPT-4o, language adherence improved.
• Mini Timeline: The mini timeline in full-screen script or whiteboard has been revamped to be a full, collapsible timeline, giving you access to emotions directly in the script or whiteboard views.
• New fluid animation algorithms in all areas.
• Overhauled styling and colors.
• Overhauled script filtering.
• Save and restore script and whiteboard positions when closing/reopening documents.
• Fade script menus in and out.
• Better mouse/keyboard-blocking of areas behind dialogs and menus.
• Automatically close splash screen.
• Updated Mac application icon.
• Overhauled drag and drop in whiteboard.
• Fluid edge scrolling in all areas.
• Better vertical flow lines.
• Explanation dialogs when dropping Beats/Groups/Blocks in incorrect places.
• Fixed Production Locations showing in reading view.
• Alternating row tint in whiteboard.
• Continuous, animated page scrolling in script using keyboard.
• Simplified whiteboard tool area.
• Automatically update detection words when character name is edited in Character Settings.
• Improved tooltips.
• Made all beats same width in whiteboard.
• Group and Block edge scrolling
• Better dialog positioning, moving between windows
• Ctrl/Cmd+E Shortcut to open beat editor

Bug Fixes

• Empty character names were detected as "Untitled" characters
• Research beats didn't locate beats in whiteboard/script when clicked.
• Spell check color didn't update when switching between day/night mode.
• New Character… should be at the beginning of menus.
• Could no longer create Character Groups in Timeline or Research.
• Whiteboard would jump when using other monitors
• Full screen windows would lose title bars on Windows.
• Crash on window dock.
• When in research you could no longer double click on a research item to open the beat or character editors.
• Double clicking on a .cau file in Finder opened Causality, but didn't actually open the document.
• Paragraph style changes weren't saved.
• Crash when clicking expand/collapse all folders in Research.
• Windows would jump to front on Linux, and couldn't be moved behind main window on all other platforms.
• Incorrect scene heading color on new beats in night mode.
• Script layout didn't react to page margin changes.
• Incorrect script colors (black text on black background) when starting app in dark mode
• Fixed scene heading font and size in the script.
• Crash: disable the "Group" shortcut (Ctrl+G/Cmd+G) outside the whiteboard.
• Crash: Don't allow inserting scene headings on non-beat timeslices.
• Automatic sizing in Color Picker
• Update search result highlighting when closing or clearing the search window.
• Soft coloring wasn't disabled in menu in night mode
• Color picker didn't highlight existing color
• Click anywhere in large text edit fields to select them
• Cleaned up and harmonized Research menus.

Removed

• Removed character canvas.
• Removed block overviews and lane overviews.
• Removed permanent inspector on right side of screen.
• Removed readability curves.
• Removed whiteboard grid snapping.
• Removed scene bar above whiteboard.
• Removed exporting whiteboard image. Can result in multi-gigabyte PNGs.
• Removed "Hidden" state of Beats. Beats are now only Enabled and Disabled.
• Removed graphics shown when hovering on flow lines.
• Removed running man icon in whiteboard. We always synchronize views.
• Removed full screen button in standalone windows for Script, Whiteboard.
• Removed "in a sequence" property for research folders.

4.0.16 (Beta)

New Features:

• Index cards display mode for script

Improvements:

• Shortcut to open beat editor

Bug Fixes:

• Crash when navigating the menus on Mac while the app is showing the recovery dialog after a crash.
• Find window didn't always grow with search results
• Zoom sub-menu in Script menu was empty
• Gray area when whiteboard moved into separate window
• Tag menu in beat editor had incorrect checkmarks
• Unable to move/rearrange lanes.
• crash when inserting a scene heading after editing a snippet.
• visual glitches when inserting/removing a beat in the whiteboard.

4.0.15 (Beta)

Bug Fixes

• Crash when removing the last inserted beat usage on a tag.

4.0.14 (Beta)

Improvements

• AI moved to GPT-4o, language adherence improved
• Group and Block edge scrolling
• Better dialog positioning, moving between windows

Bug Fixes

• Update search result highlighting when closing or clearing the search window.
• When the app starts up the timeline is all bunched up at the beginning.
• Soft coloring wasn't disabled in menu in night mode
• Automatic sizing in Color Picker
• Color picker didn't highlight existing color
• Text edit width in Research
• Click anywhere in large text edit fields to select them
• Color picker in Style menu was clipped
• Research Window toggle didn't show correct state
• Cleaned up and harmonize Research menus.
• Removed "in a sequence" property for research folders.

4.0.18 (Release)

Bug Fixes

• Crash when inserting a Scene Heading after editing snippet title or synopsis.
• Docked timeline wouldn't show after having been collapsed in full screen script or whiteboard
• Crash when undoing after moving objects around in the whiteboard.
• Crash when creating a new tag while the default tag category is missing.
• Crash in "AI: Write Scene".
• Crash when pressing ENTER in the replace field of the search/replace dialog while the search field is empty.

4.0.17 (Release)

Causality 4.0 is the culmination of several years of rewrites. The app is now in super shape, and ready for the future, and we apologize for the slow release schedule.

Click here to download the Terminator 2 script for a demonstration of Emotion Tracking and all the new features.

New Features

• Emotion Tracking:
  • Assign emotional changes to Tags on each Beat.
  • Draws graphs of emotional movement in timeline.
  • Manually or automatically add tension to beats.
  • View overall story tension in a Heat Map.
  • Set targets on emotions and "write backwards" from targets.
• Tag Categories.
• Emotion Tracks / Tag Tracks.
• Popup tag inspector / emotion editor.
• Research area is now a separate window and button.
• Next/Previous Beat buttons and keyboard shortcuts.
• Index cards display mode for script
• Apple Silicon, Windows 11 ARM and Linux ARM versions.

Improvements

• Significantly rebuilt engine in preparation for sync/collaboration.
• Significant performance increase across entire app.
• AI moved to GPT-4o, language adherence improved.
• Mini Timeline: The mini timeline in full-screen script or whiteboard has been revamped to be a full, collapsible timeline, giving you access to emotions directly in the script or whiteboard views.
• New fluid animation algorithms in all areas.
• Overhauled styling and colors.
• Overhauled script filtering.
• Save and restore script and whiteboard positions when closing/reopening documents.
• Fade script menus in and out.
• Better mouse/keyboard-blocking of areas behind dialogs and menus.
• Automatically close splash screen.
• Updated Mac application icon.
• Overhauled drag and drop in whiteboard.
• Fluid edge scrolling in all areas.
• Better vertical flow lines.
• Explanation dialogs when dropping Beats/Groups/Blocks in incorrect places.
• Fixed Production Locations showing in reading view.
• Alternating row tint in whiteboard.
• Continuous, animated page scrolling in script using keyboard.
• Simplified whiteboard tool area.
• Automatically update detection words when character name is edited in Character Settings.
• Improved tooltips.
• Made all beats same width in whiteboard.
• Group and Block edge scrolling
• Better dialog positioning, moving between windows
• Ctrl/Cmd+E Shortcut to open beat editor

Bug Fixes

• Empty character names were detected as "Untitled" characters
• Research beats didn't locate beats in whiteboard/script when clicked.
• Spell check color didn't update when switching between day/night mode.
• New Character… should be at the beginning of menus.
• Could no longer create Character Groups in Timeline or Research.
• Whiteboard would jump when using other monitors
• Full screen windows would lose title bars on Windows.
• Crash on window dock.
• When in research you could no longer double click on a research item to open the beat or character editors.
• Double clicking on a .cau file in Finder opened Causality, but didn't actually open the document.
• Paragraph style changes weren't saved.
• Crash when clicking expand/collapse all folders in Research.
• Windows would jump to front on Linux, and couldn't be moved behind main window on all other platforms.
• Incorrect scene heading color on new beats in night mode.
• Script layout didn't react to page margin changes.
• Incorrect script colors (black text on black background) when starting app in dark mode
• Fixed scene heading font and size in the script.
• Crash: disable the "Group" shortcut (Ctrl+G/Cmd+G) outside the whiteboard.
• Crash: Don't allow inserting scene headings on non-beat timeslices.
• Automatic sizing in Color Picker
• Update search result highlighting when closing or clearing the search window.
• Soft coloring wasn't disabled in menu in night mode
• Color picker didn't highlight existing color
• Click anywhere in large text edit fields to select them
• Cleaned up and harmonized Research menus.

Removed

• Removed character canvas.
• Removed block overviews and lane overviews.
• Removed permanent inspector on right side of screen.
• Removed readability curves.
• Removed whiteboard grid snapping.
• Removed scene bar above whiteboard.
• Removed exporting whiteboard image. Can result in multi-gigabyte PNGs.
• Removed "Hidden" state of Beats. Beats are now only Enabled and Disabled.
• Removed graphics shown when hovering on flow lines.
• Removed running man icon in whiteboard. We always synchronize views.
• Removed full screen button in standalone windows for Script, Whiteboard.
• Removed "in a sequence" property for research folders.

4.0.16 (Beta)

New Features:

• Index cards display mode for script

Improvements:

• Shortcut to open beat editor

Bug Fixes:

• Crash when navigating the menus on Mac while the app is showing the recovery dialog after a crash.
• Find window didn't always grow with search results
• Zoom sub-menu in Script menu was empty
• Gray area when whiteboard moved into separate window
• Tag menu in beat editor had incorrect checkmarks
• Unable to move/rearrange lanes.
• crash when inserting a scene heading after editing a snippet.
• visual glitches when inserting/removing a beat in the whiteboard.

4.0.15 (Beta)

Bug Fixes

• Crash when removing the last inserted beat usage on a tag.

4.0.14 (Beta)

Improvements

• AI moved to GPT-4o, language adherence improved
• Group and Block edge scrolling
• Better dialog positioning, moving between windows

Bug Fixes

• Update search result highlighting when closing or clearing the search window.
• When the app starts up the timeline is all bunched up at the beginning.
• Soft coloring wasn't disabled in menu in night mode
• Automatic sizing in Color Picker
• Color picker didn't highlight existing color
• Text edit width in Research
• Click anywhere in large text edit fields to select them
• Color picker in Style menu was clipped
• Research Window toggle didn't show correct state
• Cleaned up and harmonize Research menus.
• Removed "in a sequence" property for research folders.

4.0.18 (Release)

Bug Fixes

• Crash when inserting a Scene Heading after editing snippet title or synopsis.
• Docked timeline wouldn't show after having been collapsed in full screen script or whiteboard
• Crash when undoing after moving objects around in the whiteboard.
• Crash when creating a new tag while the default tag category is missing.
• Crash in "AI: Write Scene".
• Crash when pressing ENTER in the replace field of the search/replace dialog while the search field is empty.

4.0.17 (Release)

Causality 4.0 is the culmination of several years of rewrites. The app is now in super shape, and ready for the future, and we apologize for the slow release schedule.

Click here to download the Terminator 2 script for a demonstration of Emotion Tracking and all the new features.

New Features

• Emotion Tracking:
  • Assign emotional changes to Tags on each Beat.
  • Draws graphs of emotional movement in timeline.
  • Manually or automatically add tension to beats.
  • View overall story tension in a Heat Map.
  • Set targets on emotions and "write backwards" from targets.
• Tag Categories.
• Emotion Tracks / Tag Tracks.
• Popup tag inspector / emotion editor.
• Research area is now a separate window and button.
• Next/Previous Beat buttons and keyboard shortcuts.
• Index cards display mode for script
• Apple Silicon, Windows 11 ARM and Linux ARM versions.

Improvements

• Significantly rebuilt engine in preparation for sync/collaboration.
• Significant performance increase across entire app.
• AI moved to GPT-4o, language adherence improved.
• Mini Timeline: The mini timeline in full-screen script or whiteboard has been revamped to be a full, collapsible timeline, giving you access to emotions directly in the script or whiteboard views.
• New fluid animation algorithms in all areas.
• Overhauled styling and colors.
• Overhauled script filtering.
• Save and restore script and whiteboard positions when closing/reopening documents.
• Fade script menus in and out.
• Better mouse/keyboard-blocking of areas behind dialogs and menus.
• Automatically close splash screen.
• Updated Mac application icon.
• Overhauled drag and drop in whiteboard.
• Fluid edge scrolling in all areas.
• Better vertical flow lines.
• Explanation dialogs when dropping Beats/Groups/Blocks in incorrect places.
• Fixed Production Locations showing in reading view.
• Alternating row tint in whiteboard.
• Continuous, animated page scrolling in script using keyboard.
• Simplified whiteboard tool area.
• Automatically update detection words when character name is edited in Character Settings.
• Improved tooltips.
• Made all beats same width in whiteboard.
• Group and Block edge scrolling
• Better dialog positioning, moving between windows
• Ctrl/Cmd+E Shortcut to open beat editor

Bug Fixes

• Empty character names were detected as "Untitled" characters
• Research beats didn't locate beats in whiteboard/script when clicked.
• Spell check color didn't update when switching between day/night mode.
• New Character… should be at the beginning of menus.
• Could no longer create Character Groups in Timeline or Research.
• Whiteboard would jump when using other monitors
• Full screen windows would lose title bars on Windows.
• Crash on window dock.
• When in research you could no longer double click on a research item to open the beat or character editors.
• Double clicking on a .cau file in Finder opened Causality, but didn't actually open the document.
• Paragraph style changes weren't saved.
• Crash when clicking expand/collapse all folders in Research.
• Windows would jump to front on Linux, and couldn't be moved behind main window on all other platforms.
• Incorrect scene heading color on new beats in night mode.
• Script layout didn't react to page margin changes.
• Incorrect script colors (black text on black background) when starting app in dark mode
• Fixed scene heading font and size in the script.
• Crash: disable the "Group" shortcut (Ctrl+G/Cmd+G) outside the whiteboard.
• Crash: Don't allow inserting scene headings on non-beat timeslices.
• Automatic sizing in Color Picker
• Update search result highlighting when closing or clearing the search window.
• Soft coloring wasn't disabled in menu in night mode
• Color picker didn't highlight existing color
• Click anywhere in large text edit fields to select them
• Cleaned up and harmonized Research menus.

Removed

• Removed character canvas.
• Removed block overviews and lane overviews.
• Removed permanent inspector on right side of screen.
• Removed readability curves.
• Removed whiteboard grid snapping.
• Removed scene bar above whiteboard.
• Removed exporting whiteboard image. Can result in multi-gigabyte PNGs.
• Removed "Hidden" state of Beats. Beats are now only Enabled and Disabled.
• Removed graphics shown when hovering on flow lines.
• Removed running man icon in whiteboard. We always synchronize views.
• Removed full screen button in standalone windows for Script, Whiteboard.
• Removed "in a sequence" property for research folders.

4.0.16 (Beta)

New Features:

• Index cards display mode for script

Improvements:

• Shortcut to open beat editor

Bug Fixes:

• Crash when navigating the menus on Mac while the app is showing the recovery dialog after a crash.
• Find window didn't always grow with search results
• Zoom sub-menu in Script menu was empty
• Gray area when whiteboard moved into separate window
• Tag menu in beat editor had incorrect checkmarks
• Unable to move/rearrange lanes.
• crash when inserting a scene heading after editing a snippet.
• visual glitches when inserting/removing a beat in the whiteboard.

4.0.15 (Beta)

Bug Fixes

• Crash when removing the last inserted beat usage on a tag.

4.0.14 (Beta)

Improvements

• AI moved to GPT-4o, language adherence improved
• Group and Block edge scrolling
• Better dialog positioning, moving between windows

Bug Fixes

• Update search result highlighting when closing or clearing the search window.
• When the app starts up the timeline is all bunched up at the beginning.
• Soft coloring wasn't disabled in menu in night mode
• Automatic sizing in Color Picker
• Color picker didn't highlight existing color
• Text edit width in Research
• Click anywhere in large text edit fields to select them
• Color picker in Style menu was clipped
• Research Window toggle didn't show correct state
• Cleaned up and harmonize Research menus.
• Removed "in a sequence" property for research folders.