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The idea A codex is the bible of your world: the characters, places, things, factions, rules, events and maps, each with a page of its own, and each page knowing what is true where and when. Write keeps one per universe, so every series set in that world reads...

Why a book has to belong somewhere A codex lives in a universe, and a book reads the codex through its series: if the series is in the universe, every book in it sees the codex, and every entry can say "this is true in book 3" by name. Until a series is in a u...

Opening the codex From the Library, Manage → Codexes, then Open codex beside the universe. You'll land on a page with a search box in the middle and the entry types down the left—Characters, Places, Items, Factions, Rules, Events, Maps, Other, each with a coun...

The Codex button In the editor's toolbar, beside Notes, there's Codex. Click it and a rail opens on the right with the heading In this scene: every codex entry whose name or alias appears in the scene you have open, the most-mentioned first, with a small ×coun...

Why the codex has calendars Some facts are only true for a while. A captain holds a rank until she's promoted; a city stands until it falls; a character is twelve in one book and forty in the next. To say when a fact applies, the codex needs a way to write dat...

The problem a codex solves In book 1 the ship is called the Intrepid and Tanis is a lieutenant. By book 4 the ship has a new name and Tanis commands it. A spreadsheet gives you one cell per fact and makes you choose. The codex lets a field hold the general ans...

The built-in types are a starting point Every universe begins with Characters, Places, Items, Factions, Rules, Events, Maps and Other, each with a sensible handful of fields. Many worlds need more: ships, spells, species, clues, deities. The codex lets you add...

What Mentions does Every entry page has a Mentions box. It searches your manuscripts for the entry's name and every alias, and lists each scene where one appears—so you can see every page a character walks through, every time a ship is named, every place a cit...

Start small You don't need a codex to keep track of a book. The notes panel in the editor is a perfectly good place for a character sheet, a map of the town, a list of rules you've made up—and notes have two things that make them a small codex of their own. Ta...