QEDHabits that pay off
Five small habits that let the app carry the remembering, none of which ask you to think like an engineer.
Habits that pay off
You can already start writing
You can write a whole book having read nothing but the first page of these docs. These few habits just let the app do more of the remembering.
1. Write the scene and let it read
The biggest habit is the one that is no work at all. Write. The engine reads each scene as you go and keeps the ledgers: who was present, what was promised, what was revealed.
You declare almost nothing and it infers almost everything. There is no data-entry mode, because there is no data to enter. There is only the story.
2. Name people the same way
The one thing that genuinely helps is consistency. Call her Mara, not Mara in one chapter and "the girl" in the next. Mismatched names are close to the only thing the engine cannot reliably untangle on its own.
An example will be someone with lots of alias or titles, like Wanderer, Harbinger, Scaranara, Kunikuzushi, Kabukimono.
Maybe you NEED different characters calling him differently. If two spellings do get read as two people, they can still be merged afterwards, but it is easier not to need it.
Write down only what you actually know
A character page wants very little: a line of voice, what they want, a secret they keep.
In practice, each of your character page should look like a Fandom or Wiki link. But you do not have to dump the entire encyclopedia, his background, grandmother story to the page. It is just for YOU to reference.
Blank is a real answer. It means undecided, and the app is comfortable with undecided. Fill in what is true and leave the rest empty.
Let it flag rather than fix
When the app raises a hand and says a character has drifted from her page, or that a thread opened and never closed, treat it as a question and not an instruction.
Read it, then decide. Half of these findings are your story working as intended or that the app isn't as smart as you Grand Architect.
Ask the AI things
The ledgers exist to be queried. Once you have a few chapters, the fastest way to see where you are is to ask, either through the panels or the chat:
- What plot threads are still open?
- Who knows about the secret, and when did each of them find out?
- Are there contradictions in what I have written so far?
- How has this character changed across the story?
Where to go next
The App Guide covers the panels themselves. The Content Guide covers what belongs in a scene versus a world page. The Cheatsheet is the whole format on one screen.