Entries and categories

Keep each character, place and thing in an entry of its own, and find it in a moment.

The Story Bible lists its entries by category: characters, places, things, organisations, or any categories your book needs. Click an entry to read or edit it in the editor, with italics, bold and everything else the editor offers. Click a category to fold it away, or Option-click to fold them all; the category you’re in stays at the top as you scroll.

Adding entries

Click + at the top of the Story Bible, or choose File → New Story Bible Entry…. Give the entry its name, as the story writes it, and choose its category, or New Category… to start one. Add any other names it goes by, and the entry opens in the editor, ready to write.

Renaming, moving and deleting

Right-click an entry for its menu. Rename… renames it right there in the sidebar, and Move to Category moves it to another category, or a new one. Delete… moves it to the Trash, and Versions keeps it too, so Find in History can bring it back. In a series, Septangular reminds you before deleting that every book shares the entry.

Other names

An entry can list the other names the book uses for it, such as a nickname, a title or a married name (“Lizzy”, “Miss Eliza Bennet”). Hover over an entry to see them; they’re shown under its name in the editor, too.

Plain files

Each entry is a plain Markdown file, one per entry, in a folder for its category, so you can also write and keep entries in any other program. To start one from something you’ve noted down, write it as a note and use Turn into Story Bible Entry.