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0:00Hello everyone. Welcome to a new video
0:02about Raptorite. And in this video,
0:04we're going to unpack what makes this
0:06free AI platform really so great, as
0:10well as how to start getting started in
0:142025. This video is meant to be just an
0:16intro only, and I will be going much
0:18deeper on this platform in the future,
0:21so stick around for that. But to get
0:23started, um the the way Raptorite works
0:25is that it's actually part of the Future
0:27Fiction Academy uh platform, I guess you
0:30could call it. And they are primarily an
0:32educational platform. They weren't
0:34really intending originally to start
0:36putting out software, but they did. And
0:38it's actually turned out to be a really
0:40popular option right up there with the
0:43big heavy hitters like Sudorite and
0:46Novelcfter, except that Raparite is
0:49completely free. at least free for the
0:51software itself. The AI words that come
0:54through it are totally different. So
0:55that's why when you come to
0:57raptorite.com or you can use the link
0:59down below, it is an affiliate link, but
1:01uh I mean it's free, so I'm not getting
1:02much of a commission from it unless you
1:04go on to buy other stuff. Um but uh
1:08that's why when you come here, you'll
1:09see this log into Raptor right via
1:11Teachable. Uh you might not actually see
1:13this the first time you come here. This
1:15might just be for me. Uh but all you
1:17have to do here is select register for
1:19free and this will give you free access
1:21to Raptorite. Now uh you will also get
1:24free access to a course walking you
1:26through how to use Raptorite. Uh so you
1:29don't even need me necessarily to to
1:32give you that instruction because it's
1:34all right there. Um but hopefully my
1:38additional
1:39tutorials here on the channel will be of
1:41help to you in in that regard. So, uh,
1:44once you've gone ahead and registered
1:45for free, you'll be able to get in. Now,
1:47when you log in, you might see something
1:50like this, or it might look a little
1:51different, but, um, that's because
1:53Future Fiction Academy recently updated
1:55Raptorite, so it's now called Raptorite
1:57Plus. And Raptorite Plus comes with a
2:01cloud storage option cuz before it was
2:03just all stored in your browser, and
2:05there were some issues with people
2:06losing their their work and everything
2:08like that. it. This is still a program
2:10where I recommend every time you're done
2:13with it to make sure to back up all your
2:15files somewhere, whether that's Google
2:17Drive or Notion or whatever you use. Um,
2:20but you can go ahead and say open Nexus
2:23and it'll bring you to their Nexus cloud
2:24manager where you can convert old legacy
2:27projects if you've been working in
2:28Raptor right before. You can, you know,
2:30update all your cloud projects and
2:32everything. And then you can go here to
2:33return to Raptorite Plus. All right. So,
2:35when you first log into Raptorite, it'll
2:37look something like this. uh assuming
2:40that you've done all of the updates and
2:41everything and and that's and you've
2:43gotten past that. And there are a couple
2:44of things that you need to do right off
2:46the bat when we're just starting out.
2:47Probably the most important of them is
2:49to go right here and make sure we're
2:51inputting your open router API key. So,
2:54uh like I said, Raptoride itself is
2:56completely free. You don't have any
2:57overhead costs with it. Um but you will
3:01have to pay for your AI words that you
3:04generate. assuming you're using a paid
3:07model. You can actually use free models
3:09inside of Raptorite, in which case
3:12everything will be completely free. But
3:13the free models tend to be as good as
3:16what you pay for, which is nothing. So
3:18they're not really that great, most of
3:20them, but you can sometimes get a few
3:22that do really well. So to get this, you
3:24go to your Open Router account. I've
3:25done videos on Open Router in the past.
3:27It's a very important third-party
3:29platform that I strongly recommend you
3:32take a look at. Um, but you can get
3:33there at openouter.ai. AI. We use this
3:36also for Novelcfter. I also use it in my
3:38automations. So, I strongly recommend uh
3:41checking out Open Router and making an
3:42account. And once you've created an
3:44account, you can come up here and go to
3:47keys in the top right corner. And here,
3:51this is where you can create an API key.
3:53So, just click on create API key. Maybe
3:56name it something like Raptorite
3:59uh plus or something like that or just
4:02Raptor write API.
4:04Um, go ahead and leave the credit limit
4:07open. Um, and make sure there's no ex
4:10expiration, unless you want there to be
4:12an expiration, and hit create. And then
4:14it'll give you this big long string of
4:16numbers. If you want to continue using
4:19this in the future, make sure you save
4:21this somewhere. Um, it's not necessarily
4:24something you have to do because you can
4:26always create a new API key if you have
4:27to, but it you will not be able to get
4:30this exact number again. So, copy it and
4:34let's go back to Raptorite and paste it
4:37in here under open router API key. And
4:40that's all you need to do. Uh, you're
4:42pretty much done now. So, that is the
4:44most important thing to get set up with
4:46Raptorite because if you don't do that,
4:47you won't be able to use AI inside of
4:49Raptorite. Uh, so now that that's in
4:52there, you can now connect to Open
4:54Router to actually generate your words.
4:57All right. So, let's take a brief tour
4:59of Raptorite or Raptorite Plus so you
5:03can get a sense for what you can do
5:05here. And there's there's uh it's a very
5:08simple program, but it's pretty powerful
5:09in what it can do with its simplicity.
5:12Uh, in fact, I actually consider it to
5:14be the closest thing to the automations
5:17that I build, just in a more tactile
5:21form. Uh, so it's not as complex as
5:24Novelcfter is. Um, but you don't
5:26necessarily need all of that complexity.
5:29Um, so, uh, anyway, that that's just my
5:32my little brief blur about it before we
5:35get started. So, on the side here, you
5:37will see a couple of different things.
5:38We have AI, we have settings, we have
5:41projects, and we have prompts. Uh,
5:43prompts is another new feature here in
5:45Raptorite Plus, which I think you will
5:46really like. But let's first get here to
5:49AI. First of all, we need to pick what
5:52models we like. Um, first of all, the
5:55FFA Future Fiction Academy has their top
5:5710. You can select what those are here.
6:00Uh, so these are the favorites of FFA,
6:03and I find that these are the ones that
6:04I use the most as well. Uh, Sonet 4.5
6:08is, uh, probably my go-to for most
6:11things, as well as Gemini 2.5 Pro is
6:14another one of my favorites. Uh, some of
6:16these are are great for other
6:18situations. The only one that I that is
6:20not here that I like a lot is Claude
6:22Opus, but I only really use that one for
6:24one purpose, which is writing a first
6:26draft because Opus is a expensive model
6:29to run. So, let's say, hey, I actually
6:31would like to have Opus on there. You
6:33can actually start starring your
6:36favorite models. So, if you go to here
6:37to this button, model favorites, you can
6:40go through the list of models, and
6:41there's a whole bunch of them available
6:43on uh on Open Router, and go through and
6:46actually mark down which ones are your
6:48favorites. So, like I said, I I really
6:50like Opus 4.1. I like Sonnet 4.5. I like
6:54Gemini 2.5 Pro, and for less expensive
6:57stuff, I rather like 2.5 2.5 Flash as
7:01well. Those are my favorites, uh, for
7:03now at least. So, I'll go ahead and set
7:05save and then I can always add any more.
7:07Now, if I come down here to where it
7:09says favorites, I have that list of my
7:11favorite models here. So, that's a
7:12really handy thing to do there as well.
7:15Uh, also, if you select any one of
7:17these, so let's select Sonnet 4.5. You
7:19can adjust the temperature, the outer
7:22the output limit,
7:24uh, which I usually like this set for as
7:27high as it'll go. Uh you can select how
7:30many me reasoning tokens you want it to
7:32have if you want it to allow uh for
7:35reasoning. So we can go ahead and set
7:36that to 800 or so. And you can just do
7:39this for each model as you go along. And
7:42actually these settings will stay the
7:44same no matter which model you use. Some
7:47of them like I know um the cloud models
7:50have different temperature settings than
7:53other models. So you might need to
7:55adjust this depending on what you do. I
7:58typically keep most of my models at one.
8:00I rarely see
8:02a good use case to increase it or lower
8:05it. Sometimes there are good reasons,
8:07but for the most part, you can get by
8:09with your temperature at one. Also, here
8:11among the models are FFA's favorite
8:14spicy models, uh, which we've got a
8:16couple of good ones in here. Some of
8:18these are a little outdated in my
8:20opinion. I've tried like some of these
8:22here at the bottom like Mythamax um and
8:25Midnight Rose and yeah, I I don't see
8:28them as being quite as good, but these
8:30ones up here, Mistro Medium, Gro 4, AON
8:321 are all excellent uh for not safe for
8:36work stuff. There's also a list of free
8:38models here. Again, you get what you pay
8:40for, but there are usually some good
8:42free models here. The Quinn models are
8:44are decent, so you can take a look at
8:45those there. Uh or you can just select
8:47all models and then you'll have option
8:49to look through everything. But this can
8:51be a little overwhelming on just how
8:52many models there are here. So I
8:55usually, you know, just pick my
8:56favorites, go to my favorites, and I can
8:59now just navigate between those. All
9:01right, so we're pretty much done with
9:03everything here that we need to look at
9:05on the AI tab. So let's look at the
9:08settings. There isn't much to cover
9:10here, but there is a visual theme that
9:12you can kind of go through. Right now,
9:13it's just set to fantasy. If you want
9:15like pastels, you can get some like
9:17slightly different options here. Aqua
9:20Forest, which is kind of a darker one.
9:23Dracula, kind of like that as as a dark
9:26theme. Uh but let's just bring it back
9:28to fantasy, just the regular one. Um you
9:31can turn you can decide whether to turn
9:32on hotkeys or not. And generally, you're
9:35going to want these on. Uh these are the
9:37hotkeys that you will want to use to
9:39actually start writing inside of
9:40Raptorite.
9:42And you can change these. So you can
9:43change it to different things. Right now
9:45it's just this backslash that is to
9:47request something from the LLM. Uh as
9:50well as the equals sign to confirm. So
9:55those are just the ones you'll use to
9:57kind of ask the AI to continue writing
10:01and confirm that you want to insert what
10:04it gave you essentially. Uh and you can
10:06change these within reason. There's only
10:08a couple of options uh just depending on
10:11what you like, but they picked those as
10:13the default because those aren't used
10:14very often in like regular typing. All
10:18right. And then you don't really have to
10:20worry about these utilities too too much
10:22at this moment. So now let's go to
10:24project. And project is pretty
10:26self-explanatory. This is where you set
10:27up your project. So you can go here and
10:30we can just name this uh I'll just name
10:33it test project for now. I will
10:35eventually actually I'm planning on
10:36writing a nolla inside of Raparite as
10:39well as in all of the other platforms.
10:41You've already seen me in my live
10:42streams do one with uh just chat bots.
10:46I'm going to be doing one here inside of
10:47Raptorite. So I'll have that later, but
10:49for now let's just call this u test
10:52project. And then you have different
10:54documents inside of this test project.
10:56So this one's just called main or excuse
10:59me, I had this I had this wrong. So this
11:00this main is the folder and you can
11:03create different folders and adjust how
11:06you want them uh situated and then
11:09within each folder then you can create
11:12new documents inside of them and you'll
11:14see they all have these different
11:16things. So now I can rename this like
11:18let's just call it characters and we can
11:21go to this one. It's asking me it's it
11:24is telling me that it needs to sync
11:26everything before you switch which is
11:29fine. Just hit switch now. Add another
11:32one that we'll call it world building.
11:35And let's say I decide, you know what? I
11:37don't want really want this in that
11:39folder. You can just move things up
11:41here. If we right click on main here,
11:43maybe we could just call this like
11:45prewriting. Okay. And then this one
11:48here, we can call it chapters
11:51or maybe act one or act two, you know,
11:54that sort of thing. And you can
11:55structure these however you want. All
11:57right. So now I have this set up kind of
11:58like I would do it personally. Uh I have
12:01brain dump, I have characters, I have
12:02world building, I have synopsis and an
12:05outline. Uh there's nothing in these
12:07yet, but I'm just kind of getting things
12:08set up for later. You might also want
12:10something like like a plot template. You
12:13know, I I often like to include a
12:16template for my plot when I'm creating
12:18my outline. Uh that's something we could
12:20put here. You could also put something
12:22like let's say writing sample. Okay, so
12:26these don't necessarily need to be
12:28written by AI. I can take samples of my
12:31own writing, stick it here inside of
12:33writing sample and now I have that
12:36available as a resource that I can bring
12:38into the prompt when I want. All right,
12:40so that's the basics idea basic idea
12:42behind the projects. Um the nice thing
12:45about this also is you can turn these on
12:47or off. What that does is it shows you
12:50that um these will be available to the
12:52AI when you prompt it next. So you're
12:54giving the AI context of these different
12:57things. So let's say like if I'm
12:59constructing the outline, I want this
13:01plot template thing turned on because I
13:03want it to be able to access that plot
13:05template while it's helping me create
13:07the outline. However, it this isn't
13:10necessarily something I want when I'm
13:12writing a first draft, in which case I
13:13would turn that off and probably turn on
13:15something like characters and world
13:16building and the outline instead. So
13:19that's just an idea of like how those
13:22work. And it's really, it has this
13:23really nice toggle here that makes it
13:25super easy to know like what you're
13:27doing. You also have this little button
13:29here in the corner where you can just go
13:32ahead and toggle that and it'll toggle
13:33everything on or off. So, you can toggle
13:36everything in the folder on or off if
13:37you want. All right, last but not least,
13:39let's take a look at prompts. So, by
13:41default, it has two prompts here. The
13:43continue and the revise prompt. Let's
13:46and you can actually click on these and
13:48see what they have. So, the continue
13:49prompt goes something like this.
13:51Continue the story below without
13:52repeating the story unless it is for
13:54literary effect, including only the
13:56text. Include only the text you are
13:58adding. You should read what is before
14:00the tag and match the same style and
14:02tone so the next text fits into the
14:04narrative properly. Then the revise one
14:06says you will be doing a revision of
14:08text within the passage tags and you
14:10will include only text and not tags.
14:12Follow any instructions found in between
14:14these two brackets instead of the
14:16passage. Additional context if
14:18available, ignore if not present. So,
14:20this is where it might add the extra
14:22documents and stuff like that that you
14:24have turned on. And you can also add in
14:26additional instructions for the revision
14:29uh if available and ignore if not found.
14:31But let's say you wanted to have your
14:33own prompt here. To do that, you can
14:35just go here to add prompt and enter in
14:37your prompt here and then hit save and
14:39you will have your own prompt. So, let's
14:42just do a really simple one like
14:43summarize
14:45the selection in one sentence. And I'm
14:48probably not doing this perfectly, but
14:50let's go ahead and say one sentence
14:53summary and hit save. So, if we go to
14:56say a website and I just grab all of
14:58this content here. Uh, this is my own
15:00website, so I'm okay doing this. Put it
15:02all in here. Okay. So, I didn't quite do
15:06this perfectly. So, first of all, I need
15:09to add in the selected text code. So,
15:12you have to just insert that here. So,
15:15this is a little bit more advanced for
15:17some of you. You don't necessarily need
15:18to get into this yet. Um, but I'm going
15:21to say we're going to change this to
15:23summarize the selected uh passage in one
15:27sentence. And we probably don't need
15:28this additional context for this
15:30particular type of prompt. So, we're
15:31just going to take that off. But, we're
15:33going to go ahead and hit save. Now, if
15:35I select this entire article here, and I
15:38just go to one sentence summarizer and
15:40then hit this button right here, it
15:42should down here at the bottom. It says
15:45this art article comprehensively
15:46explains the hero's journey narrative
15:47structure detailing both of Joseph
15:49Campbell's original 17 stage monomith
15:51etc etc. So it did in fact uh it was
15:55able to read the thing and it was able
15:57to give me that one sentence summary. So
15:59now if I like this I could just go ahead
16:01and hit insert. I could also hit try
16:03again and now that is in there. All
16:06right. Now let's actually start writing
16:08something. So, uh, I'm going to create
16:11some brackets like this. And I'm just
16:14going to say start a chapter,
16:18um, with a young
16:22girl named Alice walking into a room
16:26where a bunch of board
16:30room members are waiting for her. She
16:34has a presentation to give and she is
16:37very nervous. All right. Obviously, if I
16:41were writing a a proper thing, I would
16:44go through and make sure I have all of
16:46my outline and everything set before I
16:48get to this point, but we're just
16:51starting here. So, I'm going to select
16:53this and then I'm actually going to hit
16:55the revise button here and run that. I
16:58can add additional instructions if I
17:00want. I don't have any right now. So,
17:01I'll go ahead and hit submit. And here
17:04it is starting the story already. It's
17:07got a couple of cliches in here like
17:08there's a Chen uh last name. Uh very
17:12common thing there. It also made her 12
17:14years old, which is interesting. Uh but
17:16yeah, so we already went and did that.
17:18And now I could always just take this
17:20revise and change it a little bit. But I
17:24we can just say I like this. And I can
17:27say okay, insert. I could also hit
17:29replace, which is in this case is
17:31exactly what I want to do because I
17:33don't want this section here to still be
17:36there because this was more the command
17:38that I wanted it to do. So instead, I'm
17:39going to hit replace and it will replace
17:41that command that I asked it to revise.
17:44Right? So the revision is not just
17:46revising something. It's also a good way
17:49to actually
17:51uh take a look at the commands that
17:53you've given it and have it actually
17:56create the next chapter essentially or
17:58create the next part of the chapter. Uh
18:00so that's essentially how you use
18:02Raptoriite. Now there's more that we
18:04could talk about here but really I want
18:06to keep this as more of an introductory
18:08thing. So uh we're going to go ahead and
18:11stop for now. But this is definitely a
18:13program I recommend because a lot of
18:15people don't have a whole lot of money
18:16and so having a free tool like this is
18:18great, especially one that is as
18:20versatile as Raptorite. I think there
18:22are some bits of it that are a little
18:24bit trickier to get used to um that
18:28aren't quite as intuitive, right? But
18:31then once you learn them, you know, like
18:33how to start a prompt and everything
18:34like that, it becomes super easy, super
18:37easy to do. Um and and I do recommend
18:41this one strongly if you are tied uh if
18:45your budget is tied up or anything like
18:46that. I will say compared to the others,
18:48Novelcfter is a little bit more advanced
18:51um which is a good thing for some people
18:54for for others it can be like a a case
18:56of analysis paralysis where you don't
18:59actually get a whole lot of writing done
19:00because you're so busy filling out a
19:01codeex or something. Uh secondly, there
19:04is Sudarite and Sudorite is good as
19:06well, but they have their own way of
19:08doing things and it is not nearly as
19:10flexible as Raptorite or Novelcfter is.
19:13Uh it's also way more expensive and I'm
19:15not really a fan of the model. So there
19:17are different reasons why you would want
19:18one or the other. I do think Raptorite
19:22is a solid one though. They will all
19:23work. But Raptor Raptorite has become a
19:26popular favorite inside of my my
19:28community, which by the way you can see
19:30down below. Uh we do uh a a quarterly
19:34book in a month challenge and we're in
19:36the middle of one right now as I'm
19:37recording this and um uh Col who's the
19:41guy who leads us in that challenge. He
19:43uses Raptorite pretty much exclusively.
19:45A lot of the instruction that he gives
19:47you is in Raptorite um which of course
19:49can be adapted for other programs, but
19:52you know it's become very popular inside
19:53of the group and so I and so I
19:55definitely recommend it for uh for those
19:57of you just starting out especially.
19:59Now, you may be wondering why this is
20:01free. And again, Future Fiction Academy
20:04is more of an educational platform. Um,
20:06and they make their money from other
20:08courses that you may or may not buy. So,
20:11you can see here in my account, there's
20:12a couple of uh courses that I've already
20:16opted into, but they have and some of
20:19which are free, like uh their basics
20:20course and uh their, you know, Raptorite
20:23basics course. It's all free. But if you
20:25log into what we've got here, you can
20:28see there are quite a few courses in
20:30here. Uh some of which are rap about
20:32Raptorite, some of which are unrelated
20:34to Raptorite. Like we've got one here
20:35about the software plotter. Uh which
20:38some of you may have heard of. There's
20:41others um uh all kinds of different
20:43topics. So this is how you support them
20:45if you like what they're doing with
20:46Raptorite is going to one of these
20:48courses and trying them out. We got
20:50translations with AI. We've got writing
20:52a series with AI. all kinds of different
20:54things. And so if you want to check
20:55those out, you can. But if you don't
20:57want to spend any money, Raptorite is
20:58completely free along with the course on
21:00how to use it. So go ahead and check out
21:01my link down below and check them out.
21:03And I will see you in the next