Ruthless Editor — updated walkthrough
Actual app captures · Fictional example · Controlled responses · AI narration

Start with a saved manuscript
Ruthless Editor now gives you a saved workspace for line editing, with the original manuscript preserved. This walkthrough uses a fictional story and controlled demonstration responses, with AI narration. Name your manuscript, then paste a scene or import a file. Text, Markdown, Word, EPUB and PDF are supported. Scanned PDFs need optical character recognition. Imports preserve extracted text, not Word formatting. Review the imported text before analysis.

Protect your voice
Enter your genre and editorial boundaries. State the point of view, tense, and effects you want to keep. You can add a sample of your own writing as context. Put exact wording you want to preserve in Protected phrases, one phrase per line. Those matches are case sensitive. Proposals that overlap a protected phrase cannot be accepted. Intentional repetition, fragments and pauses should be judged in context, not automatically removed.

Analyze, pause and resume
Choose your provider and model, then start analysis. Each segment uses your provider account. The progress panel shows exactly how much imported text has been analyzed. Here, a simulated interruption leaves completed work saved and the remaining segments pending. Reopen this workspace and choose Resume analysis to continue. Pause after current request waits for the current response to finish and save. An interrupted chapter is never presented as a clean result.

Review original and proposal
Each proposal shows the original passage beside an editable replacement. Read the reason and decide whether the change serves your story. Accept edit includes it in the edited draft. Reject edit leaves the original wording. You can change the proposed replacement yourself. Changing it resets the decision to pending, so you must accept the revised wording again. Two overlapping alternatives cannot both be accepted. An empty replacement means deletion, so review that choice carefully.

Check the source and undo
Select View source passage to inspect the original wording in context. Its positions refer to imported text, not printed page numbers. Only the matched occurrence changes when you accept a proposal. Repeated phrases elsewhere remain untouched. Undo decision returns the proposal to pending and restores the original wording in the edited draft. The model can still misunderstand your intention. Matching the quotation proves where it came from, not that its editing advice is correct.

Export and keep your progress
The edited draft contains only accepted changes. Everything else stays as imported, including segments that have not been analyzed. Export the edited draft, original source or review report as needed. Export backup keeps your source, progress, proposals and decisions without connection settings. Importing a backup creates a separate workspace. Saves stay in this browser, so export before changing devices or clearing browser data. Changing the source or brief starts a separate analysis pass and preserves the earlier work.