Reference Library

Give every idea somewhere to belong.

Keep world rules, history, research, images, notes, links, and unruly fragments together, then connect the facts that matter to the scenes where the audience learns them.

Coming soonMac App Store

Explore the Library

Not every good idea needs to become a scene. None of them need to get lost.

01Gather

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02Establish canon

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03Think visually

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04Use in scenes

A home for every kind of thinking

Keep the material behind the story close to the story itself.

Use the format that fits the idea in front of you. The Library stays flexible while giving important facts a path into the Plan.

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Worldbuilding

Cultures, organizations, technologies, beliefs, laws, objects, species, customs, and the rules that hold them together.

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Whiteboards

Open visual spaces for mood boards, relationship maps, thematic clusters, images, and ideas that resist tidy lists.

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Notes

Free-form pages for research, questions, fragments, longer reference material, and possibilities you are not ready to settle.

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Reference timelines

Historical and contextual events placed relative to one another, whether or not they appear directly as scenes.

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Index cards

Flexible, searchable boards of titled cards with notes, images, and categories for sorting a body of research or ideas.

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Attachments & links

Supporting documents and useful web links saved alongside the project, organized into categories and ready to preview.

Build a world that keeps its promises

Separate what’s interesting from what’s true.

Develop the parts of the world that deserve their own record, identify the truths and limits the story shouldn’t contradict.

Canonical factsRecord the fixed truths that characters, scenes, and AI tools need to respect.

ConstraintsDefine what a technology, culture, law, object, or belief can and can’t allow.

Connected world elementsLink organizations, customs, places, objects, and people so the world reads as a system rather than a glossary.

Develop only as much world as the story needs—while keeping its important rules clear.

Some ideas need space

Think visually before the idea becomes orderly.

Arrange text and images on open whiteboards. Move, resize, and layer material until the relationship becomes visible—without forcing discovery into a database too soon.

Build mood boards and visual research collections
Map relationships, themes, factions, or competing ideas
Upload images or add them from a web address
Keep exploratory material beside the structured story bible

Connect reference to the story

Decide not only what’s true, but when the audience learns it.

World elements, historical events, and index cards can become Plan exposition elements, turning background material into a deliberate reveal.

01Build the sourceA world element, historical event, or reference card.

02Make it availableChoose Use in Scenes when the information matters to the telling.

03Place the revealConnect it to the scene where the audience encounters it.

04Check the progressionSee whether setup, knowledge, and payoff arrive in the right order.

The Library preserves everything behind the story. The Plan controls what reaches the audience.

Keep discovery and continuity in the same project.
Explore freely, establish canon when it matters, and reveal information deliberately.

Keep the world behind the words

Save all the sparks.
Know which matter.

Give all your research, worldbuilding, images, and stray ideas a home.