Lore

Lore is your story's memory — the characters, places, factions, objects, and ideas worth keeping straight. Each item is an Entry: a title, a Markdown body, and whatever fields its type carries. Entries link to each other, and when you turn AI on, they're the material it draws from — so the effort you put into lore pays off both as a reference for you and as context for the model.

This guide covers day-to-day use of entries. Designing your own entry types and fields is the Custom fields guide; letting a fact change partway through the story is Mutations.

The Lore pane

Open the Lore pane and you'll see your entries, grouped by type — all your Characters together, then Locations, and so on, each group showing a count. A Search entries, #tags, aliases box at the top filters as you type. A fresh project shows "No entries yet."

The way entries are grouped and ordered is itself a view, and the pane's view switcher lets you change it — see the Views guide.

Add an entry

1. Click + (Add entry) at the top of the pane.
2. In the New entry popover, pick a type — Character, Location, or whatever your project defines. (If the list is empty, you haven't defined any types yet; see Custom fields.)
3. The entry is created — titled "Untitled entry" — and opens straight away, ready to rename and fill in.

If AI is on, the popover also offers Brainstorm new… with a ✨ Draft <Type> option, which drafts an entry with you in a chat instead of from a blank page.

Write the entry

An open entry has three parts:

• A Name at the top — what the entry is called (used everywhere it's referenced, and for detecting mentions of it in your prose).
• A Markdown body — the description, history, voice, notes; write as much or as little as you like.
• A Details rail beside the body, holding everything structured about the entry.

Details: type, fields, and aliases

The Details rail is where an entry's structured information lives.

• Type — the rail's head shows the entry's type as one line: its name (Character, Location…), its icon when the type has one, and a small caret. You set the type when you create the entry, but you can change it any time: click the head and pick another type; the fields below update to match. Edit type… at the foot of that list takes you to the type's definition (that's Custom fields territory).
• Fields — everything the type defines: tags, references, a colour, and any custom fields, grouped into sections.
• Aliases — a list of alternate names ("The Salamander" for a character named Ivo). Aliases matter beyond bookkeeping: the app watches your prose for each entry's Name and its aliases, so a character referred to by a nickname is still recognised — underlined in the editor, and offered as context to the AI.

Link entries together

Relationships between entries are reference fields. Where a type has one (a character's home, a scene's POV, a faction's members), Details shows a picker: open it, choose the target entry (or several), and it's linked. Linked entries show as rows you can click to jump straight to them.

Links are two-way to read. On any entry, the References section of Details lists its incoming links — every entry that points at this one. So opening a location shows you every character who calls it home, without your having to maintain a list by hand. Those rows are clickable too; "No incoming references." means nothing points here yet.

Mentions in your prose

You don't need a special syntax to reference lore while writing. Type a character's Name (or one of their aliases) in a scene and the app detects it automatically, underlining the mention. This is also how the AI knows which entries are relevant to what you're actually writing — it offers the entities it found, so the model gets the right context without you attaching anything by hand.

There's no [[wiki-link]] or @mention to learn; just write, and keep your aliases current so nicknames are caught. How those mentions turn into the lore an AI chat receives — and the per-entry Context policy that keeps a spoiler out of it — is covered in What the AI sees.

Notes the AI always sees

Some notes aren't about one thing in your world but about how all of it works: a magic system, a calendar, how names are formed. Set such a note's Context policy to Always include and the AI receives it with nearly every prompt, whether or not anything names it (the exceptions are in What the AI sees).

Naming conventions are the common case. If you want the names the AI invents to fit your world — how a family name is built, what ships or inns are called — keep them in a note of their own and set it to Always include. Draft scene, Continue and the brainstorm prompts then see it whenever they coin a name. Keep naming out of a style note: a style note says how the prose reads, and the style builder leaves naming out of it (see How your prose is steered).

Tags

Tags are a light, cross-cutting way to organise — protagonist, chapter-3, needs-revision. A tag is an entry in its own right, of its own kind — a Tags field on an entry just holds references to them. Open a Tags field's picker and pick from the tags that already exist; type a name that matches nothing (case is ignored) and the picker offers Create "‹name›" to mint it on the spot.

The Tags pane (≡ menu → Manage all tags…) lists every tag, grouped by vocabulary, each with a count of how many entries carry it. From there you can open a tag to rename it, recolour it, merge it into another tag, or delete it. Merging keeps every entry that carried the old tag — they now read, filter, and count as the tag you merged into.

Organising a large world

Beyond grouping by type, the Lore pane's view switcher can filter, group, and even nest entries into trees — characters under their faction, sub-locations under a region — by following the reference fields you've filled in. That's all done with Views; there are no folders to manage.

Where to go next

• Custom fields — define the entry types and fields your world needs.
• Mutations — let a fact change partway through the story without leaking the future into earlier scenes.
• Views — filter, group, and nest your lore however you think about it.