Characters & world: entity tabs & reference

What an entity tab is #

Characters and Setting are there from the start. Each holds entries — a character, a place — and each entry is a page you build yourself.

The layout is three columns: your entries on the left, the blocks inside the entry you are looking at in the middle, and the page itself on the right.

Blocks #

Pages are built from blocks, so a character and a magic system do not have to look alike. Fields for the things you will look up later, Text for prose, plus Image, Chart, Arc and Divider.

An arc is a set of named steps with notes — useful for a character's change across the book, and each step can be pinned on its own.

The add-block menu on an entity page, listing Fields, Text, Image, Chart, Arc and Divider. — The six block types available on any entity page.

Text blocks and the document editor #

A text block can be opened as a full document — same editor as the manuscript, with the whole formatting toolbar and its own word count.

Back returns you to the entity page. The block and the document are the same thing; there is no importing or copying between them.

A text block opened as a full document, with a back button, the block name as the title, a word count, save state and the full formatting toolbar. — The same block, opened full-width.

Custom tabs #

The + at the end of the tab bar adds more tabs: a timeline, charts, a research tab, or one you name yourself. The same menu hides tabs this book does not need, so the bar carries only what is relevant.

Research is available on every plan. Further custom tabs are part of Plus.

The add-tab menu listing Timeline, Charts, Research, Magic, Religion, Symbolism and Custom. — Ready-made tabs, or one you name yourself.

Images #

The Images tab is the project's own store of pictures. Anything uploaded there can be used on an entity page, in front matter, on a cover, or inserted into the manuscript from the toolbar.

Upload once, use anywhere: the same portrait can sit on a character page and in the reference panel without being uploaded twice. Storage and per-image size are governed by your plan.

Pinning to the reference panel #

Any block worth keeping in view has a pin on hover. Pinned things appear in the reference panel beside the manuscript, and stay there between sessions.

Scenes pin from the outline, and pin their synopsis — the plan for the scene, not its draft. Prose pins from the manuscript instead.

The pin control on an entity block, shown beside the globe and expand icons. — The pin appears on hover.

The reference panel #

Each pinned item is a collapsible block you can resize by dragging its bottom edge. Notes you create in the panel are real documents — they appear under Papers and survive being unpinned.

Citations share the panel. Write the note, choose endnote or footnote, then place the marker where your cursor is.

The reference panel beside the manuscript with a photograph pinned as visual reference and a scene synopsis pinned beneath it. — A visual reference and the plan for the scene, beside the scene.