Welcome to Typetoe — a calm place to write long things and keep track of them.
On an empty workspace you have two ways in:
If the book already exists somewhere else, you do not have to retype it. Use Import in the Library toolbar and drop in Markdown or plain text files — one becomes one document, and several at once become several, in the order you give them. From Scrivener, Ulysses or Word, export to Markdown first; that is the format every one of them can produce and the one that keeps your structure intact.
Headings inside a file stay headings. Nothing is reformatted behind your back.
You can collapse either side panel to give the editor more room; drag the edges to resize.
Everything autosaves as you type — there's no Save button. The small bar at the top shows when a change is being saved.
A project holds a tree of documents and folders. Create them from the Library toolbar, drag to reorder or nest, and rename inline. Folders group chapters, parts, notes — whatever structure fits your work.
Every document carries a status you choose — Draft, Canon, or Material — and a scan state it simply happens to be in. The first is a decision, the second an observation, and the tree shows both.
Each document in the tree carries a small round dot for its status:
A document whose excerpt begins with a small document icon has been scanned by Typetoe, and the text has not changed since. On the web that mark is the only scan state shown in the tree — a document never scanned, or rewritten since, shows nothing. In a project of fourteen chapters what you want at a glance is which ones are already done, and the desk is always on screen to tell you the rest.
On iPhone and iPad the row says more. The desk there is a tap away rather than beside you, so each document carries a small square for its scan state next to the status dot: teal scanned, amber out of date, pale never scanned. Same colours, same meanings as below.
The Editorial Desk names all four in words, under the status, each with a small square in the same colours:
"Out of date" is decided by comparing the text itself, not by dates. Opening a chapter, changing a comma and undoing it does not make the scan stale — only real changes to the prose do.
Write in a clean, formatted editor. Paste from anywhere — Typetoe keeps the structure. There's a markup view if you prefer to see the raw formatting, and a customiser for fonts, size, spacing, and paragraph style (in the editor's settings).
Footnotes: insert one from the right-click menu (Insert footnote). Once inserted, edit its text at the foot of the page in the Hybrid and Markup views, or in Formatted view right-click the footnote marker and choose Edit footnote.
Typetoe quietly keeps automatic versions as you make meaningful changes, so you can look back. You can also save a version by hand at a moment worth remembering.
Set a writing goal on a document or the whole project — a word target, optionally on a schedule — and track progress as you write.
You never lose work. That one is true on every plan and needs nothing switched on: when the line goes, your text is written to the device and goes up by itself the moment there is a connection again. Close the laptop, shut the app, land — it is still there.
While something is waiting you will see a small amber note saying so. It goes out on its own when everything has arrived; there is nothing to press and nothing to confirm.
Pro adds the rest of it. With no connection you can still begin a chapter, rename one, move it into a folder, throw one away — the whole shape of the project stays workable, and every change is sent in the order you made it when the line returns. On the phone, Pro also brings your chapters onto the device while you have a signal, so a project you have never opened offline is still readable at thirty thousand feet.
What does not work without a connection is anything that asks a model to think: the Scan, the chat, source research. Those are server calls and no amount of local storage changes it. Write on the train, scan when you land.
If a subscription lapses, nothing you have written goes anywhere: what is on the device stays readable and exportable. What stops is starting new work offline.
The right-hand desk is Typetoe's memory of your project. It fills up as you work.
Ask Typetoe to read a document once. It extracts and saves the essentials — what kind of text it is, a short synopsis, the characters and locations it mentions — so it doesn't have to rediscover them every time. A re-read of unchanged text is free; it only re-reads when the text has actually changed.
You can trigger it from Read Document on the desk, or from the Scan button in the editor toolbar (which reads the document and gives you a short recap in the chat).
The desk tells you where each document stands, on the line under its status: Scanned, Scan out of date, Never scanned, or nothing at all when the document is empty. See Writing for the full legend of the marks, in the tree and here.
Continuity notes, decisions, and things to verify — kept per project. Typetoe can suggest checklist items while you work; you decide whether to keep them.
As documents are read, the people and places in them are collected here, each with a status you can confirm (to verify, canon, unused).
The Charter is your set of rules for the project — tone, canon facts, dos and don'ts. Accepted Charter rules are treated as law: they're injected into every AI reply, so the assistant stays inside the world you've defined.
Save references you've checked. When the assistant verifies a real-world fact, it can offer to save the source here.
If you already pay for Claude or ChatGPT, you can point it at your Typetoe project and work there. It reads your chapters, searches the project, and writes back into it — with no API key to set up and nothing extra to pay, because the reading happens inside the subscription you already have.
This is the cheapest way to get a real editorial assistant on your book. The alternative — your own provider key in AI settings — puts the assistant inside Typetoe instead, and you pay the provider per use.
The connector is added inside Claude or ChatGPT, not in Typetoe. Typetoe’s part is only the address:
https://app.typetoe.com/mcp
In Claude, open Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector and paste it. In ChatGPT, it lives under the developer settings for connectors. Either way you will be sent to Typetoe once to sign in and approve the connection — that is the moment your assistant is granted access, and you can withdraw it from the same screen in Claude or ChatGPT whenever you like.
It connects to your account, not to one project. Which project it works on is decided in the conversation.
It works on the text and the desk. It cannot move documents, rename them, empty the Trash, or change your plan — the shape of the project stays yours.
Your plan applies here exactly as it does in the app: the same project limit, the same storage limit. An assistant cannot be used to get around them.
Almost every failure is the same one: the connection was added while signed out of Typetoe, or to the wrong account. Sign in at app.typetoe.com first, then add the connector — and if it was already added and is misbehaving, delete it there and add it again rather than retrying.
There are three different things here, and they cost different amounts. Worth two minutes.
The chat you meet without setting anything up is Typetoe's guide, and Typetoe pays for it. Ask it how the Scan works, what the Charter is for, how to import a manuscript, how to connect Claude — it answers those. It is limited to a number of conversations for the lifetime of an account, which is plenty for learning your way around and deliberately not enough to write a book with.
It is not an editorial assistant, and it will tell you so rather than pretend. For that, read on.
Free on every plan, no key needed. Ask Typetoe to read a document once and it keeps the essentials — what kind of text it is, a short synopsis, who and where it mentions — so nothing has to be rediscovered later. Re-reading text that has not changed is free and does not count.
There is a weekly allowance, larger on Pro, and a ceiling on the year. The week rolls rather than resetting on a fixed day: your allowance comes back one scan at a time as the oldest ages past seven days. Bring your own key and the allowance disappears entirely — at that point it is your money being spent, not ours.
Two ways, and the first costs nothing extra.
Connect Claude or ChatGPT. If you already pay for either, point it at your project and work there — no key, no second subscription. See Claude and ChatGPT for how.
Or bring your own provider key, added once in AI settings, which puts the full assistant inside Typetoe itself. The key stays in your browser and is never sent to Typetoe's servers. You can point Typetoe at OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, DeepSeek or Groq and choose a model; Google Gemini has a free tier, so this can start at no cost. Some providers also offer web research for source-checking, added separately in AI settings.
The free plan keeps 2 active projects, has a generous storage limit, and includes the Scan and the guide. The Trash is Pro: on the free plan your projects stay put, though you can always rename them or clear their contents by hand.
Pro lifts the project limit, unlocks the Trash, raises the Scan allowance, and adds working offline (see Writing). It is available now, monthly or yearly — the current prices are on typetoe.com and on the Pro card inside the app.