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Series, kinds and the public share link: what the library can do

By Thomas Lovas Lokoy · Published 16 October 2026 · 6 min read

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Everything you generate lands in one place, the library. This tutorial explains what you will find there, how the three multi-article modes differ from a single article, and exactly what the Publish button does. As with the other tutorials, it describes the code as it runs today, not a roadmap.

The four kinds

Every article carries a kind, shown as a small badge on its card:

  • Single — one article from the "New article" form.
  • Series — one part of a planned three-to-five-part arc. The badge shows the part number.
  • Batch — one of several unrelated topics written in a single run.
  • Rewrite — an existing article of yours brought up to date.

The library's "type" filter uses those four, plus "Everything". A second filter covers status: Completed, Generating or Failed. There is a search box over titles and topics, and a row of chips showing your twenty most-used tags on completed articles; clicking one filters to that tag. Results come newest first, 24 to a page, with the newest article shown large.

Each card shows the kind badge, a funnel-stage badge where one applies, the cover image (or a colour gradient seeded from the article id when no licensed image was found), the title, the excerpt, the date, the word count, the reading time, and a "Published" marker if the article has a public page. A failed article says so on the card, with the reminder that no credit was charged.

Series (Pro and above)

A series starts from a seed topic of 3 to 300 characters, an optional audience or niche note of up to 500 characters, a parts slider from 3 to 5, a length per part, a voice and a model. The form shows the cost before you start: parts multiplied by the model's credit price, next to your balance. If the balance is short, the button is disabled, and the server refuses the request as well.

Planning happens first and is not charged. A Sonnet call returns a series title and, for each part, a real article title, a one-sentence angle describing what only that part covers, and a funnel stage. The planner's rules: no two parts may answer the same question, titles must be real titles rather than chapter labels (no "Part 1:", no "Introduction"), stages run from awareness early to decision late, and at least one part must be a decision-stage piece. If the plan comes back with fewer than two usable parts, nothing is created and nothing is charged.

With a plan in hand, the series row is created and the parts are written one after another in the background. On plans with research, one keyword brief is researched once for the seed topic and shared by every part, so the parts do not compete for the same phrase. Each part is a full article in its own right, charged as it is written, with the series context in its brief: it is told which part it is, what the other parts cover, to stand alone for a reader arriving from search, and to refer to at most two sibling parts and only where that genuinely helps.

The series page refreshes every five seconds and shows each part as Queued, Writing…, Failed, or its finished word count. A failed part does not stop the others; running out of credits does, because every later part would fail the same way. If the run is interrupted and makes no progress for 20 minutes, it is closed out: unstarted parts were never charged, and the one in progress is refunded. Finished parts show "Part n of a series" on their article page with a link back to the series.

Batch (Studio and above)

Batch is for topics that have nothing to do with each other. You list between 2 and 10 of them, one per row; Studio allows 5 per run and Agency 10. Duplicate topics are removed before anything starts and are not charged. Each topic is researched (where your plan includes research) and written on its own, with a cover image, exactly as a single article would be, and tagged with the Batch kind. The cost is shown as topics multiplied by the model's credit price before you start.

Rewrite (Pro and above)

Paste an article of yours of between 200 and 60,000 characters, optionally with its original URL. The length defaults to the original's word count, or 600 words if the original was shorter. The brief the writer receives is explicit about the job: keep the argument, the examples, the conclusions and the voice; fix anything that has gone stale, and where the current fact cannot be verified say what was true and when rather than silently keeping the old claim; add the sections the original is missing and the questions from the keyword brief it never answered; cut the padding; restructure into the funnel shape; and produce a finished replacement, not a summary or a commentary. The result carries the Rewrite kind and, if you supplied one, the source URL.

The public share link

On any completed article, "Publish" creates a public page. The address is built from your topic: lower-cased, anything other than letters and digits replaced with a hyphen, cut to 80 characters, with "-1", "-2" and so on appended if that address is already taken. The page lives at aiorbit.site/p/ followed by that slug, and the article page then shows "View public page" and "Unpublish" in its place.

The public page renders your title and the Markdown, carries Article structured data, and ends with a small "Generated with AI Orbit" line. It is cached for 60 seconds, so an edit to the underlying article can take up to a minute to show there.

Two deliberate choices are worth knowing about:

  • The page is marked noindex, follow. The content belongs to you, and the place for it to rank is your own site. A share page is for showing a client or a colleague, not for competing with the copy you publish. The /p/ path is also excluded in robots.txt, and share pages are never listed in the sitemap.
  • A page that does not exist returns a real 404. If a slug is unpublished or mistyped, the response is a 404, not a soft "not found" inside a 200 page.

"Unpublish" clears the slug and keeps the article. Publishing again rebuilds the slug from the topic, so it will usually be the same address unless someone else has since taken it.

Publishing has one more effect inside the product. Your twelve most recently published articles are the list of internal link targets handed to the writer on your next article (Starter and above), as described in how AI Orbit researches and writes an article. An article you have not published cannot be linked to, because the writer is only allowed to link to pages that exist.

Export and delete

"Download .md" gives you the article as Markdown with a short front matter block (title and date). "Download .ts" exports the same article as a TypeScript module in the article format used by NorwegianSpark's own sites; most people will never need it, but it is there. "Delete" asks a second time ("Really delete?") and then removes the article permanently, including its public page.

Where the limits are

Series needs Pro, Batch needs Studio, Rewrite needs Pro. Series starts, batch starts and keyword-brief previews share a cap of five per hour per account. The pricing page lists each plan's ceilings, and credits, plans and limits explained walks through what happens to your balance in each mode.