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What Nisaba Can Do for You#

A plain-language tour of how Nisaba helps — shaping structure, keeping track of your characters, searching and reading your script, polishing your story documents, and drafting and revising scenes.

Nisaba — your AI writing partner inside Nabu — handles a great deal. You just ask in plain language.

New here? Start with Meet Nisaba for who she is and how she keeps your work safe.

Working with structure — the board, zones, and sequences#

Your board (the visual scene-card view), your zones (the broad regions of your story — beginning, middle, end), and your sequences (runs of scenes that form a movement) are all things she can shape.

  • Place and move scenes where they belong in the arc of the story.
  • Build and adjust sequences — group scenes into movements, or reshuffle them.
  • Set your structural framework — switch the underlying beat template your story follows; she keeps the placements you've already confirmed intact.
  • Ask what a beat is for. She knows what each beat of your framework asks for, in the same words the map shows.
  • Flag the turning points. Mark a scene as a pivotal moment, or ask which moments are the pivots.
  • Build or rebuild the outline of your script's shape when the story has moved on.

Tip: You don't have to know structure jargon. Say "this scene comes too early" or "the middle sags" — she'll work out what to move.

Characters and relationships#

  • Create and update characters — a new character on request, or a tweak to an existing one's details.
  • Answer questions about who knows what — "who has my detective talked to so far?" — drawing on what's actually in your script.
  • Talk through how characters sound. Ask her about a character's voice. Nabu also watches on its own: when a character in a scene you just wrote stops acting or sounding like themselves, a Character Voice note appears in Notes.
  • Check relationships across the script — how two people's connection reads scene to scene.
  • Rename a character or location across your story.

Your story documents — logline, synopsis, treatment#

Before the scenes, there's the story on paper: your logline (the one-sentence pitch), your synopsis (your one-pager), and your treatment (your prose blueprint).

  • Draft and refine each one with you, section by section.
  • Make edits you've asked for directly to the synopsis or treatment — every such edit creates a save point first, so you can step back with History.
  • Find-and-replace a name cleanly inside a document.

Note: If an edit doesn't go through, she'll tell you — she won't claim a document changed when it didn't.

Searching, reading, and answering questions about your script#

When Nisaba reads the story, she uses the structure saved for the project, including a short film's own zones, to understand how far the draft has progressed and when its open threads are due.

  • Find things fast — "where does the gun first appear?" or "which scenes are set in the diner?"
  • Spot loose threads — dangling questions, unresolved setups, gaps the story hasn't paid off.
  • Check the through-lines — recurring images, themes, and motifs across the script.
  • Recall earlier feedback — what a previous read of your script said.

These reading-and-answering tasks are light — closer to conversation than to drafting.

Notes and gentle suggestions#

When Nisaba spots something worth changing in your scene text, she leaves a suggestion — a proposed edit you can accept or wave off — or a note in the margin. Nothing changes until you accept it.

A plain misspelling can appear as a wavy underline on the word. Hover or click it to see corrections. Some contextual corrections can't be applied automatically; edit the word in your script. Formatting problems stay in Doctor notes.

Uses your plan: A suggestion that rewrites words in a scene is drafted like a scene rewrite; drafting character suggestions uses character-writing work. Accepting a suggestion adds no drafting charge. Notes stay light.

See Inline AI suggestions for how to accept, discuss, or dismiss her edits.

Drafting and rewriting scenes#

  • Draft a new scene. Tell her what the scene needs to do — "write the scene where she finds the letter" — and she writes it as proper screenplay pages. The new scene goes straight into your script; undo with Cmd+Z or restore from History.
  • Give you choices. For an important scene, she can write two versions in different styles, or produce a small set of drafts to compare.
  • Revise what's there. Ask for a tenser opening, a tighter exchange, a different ending. When you ask her to rewrite a whole scene, she does it straight away — undo with Cmd+Z or restore from History.

Uses your plan: Drafting and rewriting scenes is heavier work. Asking for multiple versions uses more than one. Quick questions stay light.

Getting a read on the work — coverage#

Nisaba can run coverage — a development-executive-style read of your script that lands on one of three verdicts: RECOMMEND, CONSIDER, or PASS, with reasons. Ask her to "read my script" or "run coverage."

Uses your plan: Coverage is part of the Pro plan. A full read of your script is a deeper task.

Bringing in another perspective#

  • Get a second opinion — Nisaba can fetch a second take for a fresh creative angle.
  • Hear the contrarian — she can summon a devil's-advocate voice to poke holes in an idea.

Remembering what matters to you#

You can hand Nisaba a fact to hold onto — "the antagonist is never named on screen," "keep it under 90 pages" — and she'll remember it, in your words. Tell her in one plain sentence what a character wants, needs, believes or fears — "Mara wants to leave." — and it becomes that character's line on the Story page. Tell her the same way how the story ends, what it is about, its tone, its stakes or where it is set, and that becomes the story's line too. She keeps your newest word. Whatever else you state plainly in chat — a reason, a change she can't put on the Story page yet — she recalls as yours, in your words, not as an idea waiting for your OK. A maybe, a question or someone else's opinion anywhere in the same message changes nothing on the page, and neither does a sentence that says several things at once; she still remembers those words as yours. With background AI turned off, what you say in chat changes the story only when you ask Nisaba to remember it. She also builds a sense of how you like to work over time. See What Nisaba remembers.

She keeps track of her own thinking on your story too — something she noticed, an idea you set aside, a question to come back to — so a later conversation picks up where you left off. Ask her what she's keeping track of any time.

What she won't do#

  • She won't silently overwrite your scene text. Small edits arrive as suggestions. When you ask her to write or rewrite a scene, change a character, reorder or remove scenes, or revise your synopsis or treatment, she does it straight away — undo with Cmd+Z or restore from History.
  • She won't pretend something changed when it didn't. If an edit doesn't go through, she tells you.
  • She won't override your locked creative direction. Once you've chosen the direction, she works within your vision.
  • She won't take the wheel on the big calls. She drafts, shapes, and advises. You decide what the story is.
  • She won't pretend to be certain. If she's unsure, she says so.

Tip: Type /help in chat to see what Nisaba can help with on the screen you're on. See Chatting with Nisaba.

Good to know#

  • You never name a capability. Describe what you want and she figures out how.
  • The more of your project she can see, the sharper she is. Even a rough synopsis or a few character notes gives her more to work with.
  • Heavier work uses more of your plan. Conversation and questions are light; drafting scenes and running coverage use more. The app shows your usage in the footer.