Node types & slots

As your lore grows, even one character's details end up scattered, and checking an age means digging through notes. In your World, a node type — characters, places, factions — decides the fields to fill, its slots, and every node of that type — one character, one place — fills the same ones, so any piece of lore is always in the same place.

Say your Characters type has an “Occupation” property and a “Personality” section. Vincent's occupation and personality go in the same spots as Raon's; each node just fills in its own values.

Making a node type

The World starts empty.

1. Make node types to suit your work, or ask the agent to make them.
2. When you make one, choose its Kind: a Graph type, which shows relations as a picture, or a Board type, which lays things out in order.
3. Run Organize World on your manuscript or conversations, and characters, places, and lore are filed as nodes of the right types.

Adding a slot

There are two kinds of slot: a property for a short fact, such as age or occupation, and a section for longer free-form writing, such as background or history.

1. Press a node's ⋯ and, under Slot, choose Property › or Section ›.
2. For a property, set its value type: Plain · Number · Select · Node relation.

A slot you add appears on every node of that type, not just on Vincent.

Putting lore in the right field

Even for one character, things you'll look up in different ways go in different places: you compare ages in a table, read a personality as prose, and skim what changed in which chapter in order. Put each in its place from the start and you know where to look when you need it.

• Short facts — Vincent's age, occupation, affiliation: values you'll compare in a table go in properties.
• Long writing that always holds — appearance, personality, background that's true anywhere in the story, like “quiet and loyal”, goes in the section text.
• What changes as the story goes — what a character gains, loses, or learns, like finding out Raon is his brother, builds up in story order in that section's progression.
• Short values that differ by chapter — an age, an allegiance, a ruler that changes partway: don't overwrite them; give them a property start and end.
• Ties between nodes — family, faction, rival: link them with a relation property so they become lines in the graph.

Finding a node by another name

To have a node recognized when the text calls it by a nickname or a shortened name, register search keywords.

1. Choose Search keyword in the node's ⋯.
2. Press and add the nickname or short name.

Search and the agent both use these keywords.

Linking another node

Type [[ in section text to link another node. A node's backlinks gather the places where other nodes' text links to it.

Going back to where lore came from

Lore added by Organize World keeps the manuscript passage or conversation behind it as its Source. When you wonder “where did we decide this?”, you can go straight back.

1. Press the small chip beside a property or section — a page number like 07 for the manuscript, a page icon for a document, a chat icon for a conversation.
2. The Source panel shows where it came from, who added it, and when.
3. Press a name to open that place.

How do I set up characters?

Make a Graph node type such as “Characters” (or ask the agent to), and give each character a node of its own. Put short facts like role, age, and appearance in properties, longer writing like background in sections, and how the character changes as the story goes in that section's progression. Join characters like Vincent and Raon with relation properties and the type's graph becomes a character map.

• A number property can be a range or an approximate value, and can take a unit.
• Several properties can be gathered into a group.
• Deleting a slot removes it from every node of that type. How to bring a deleted slot back is in History & Restore.
• A paragraph written from a conversation carries a chat mark, and pressing the conversation row in the Source panel opens it.
• When Organize World rewrites a paragraph, the sources already on it stay.