Settings Inquiry

Inquiry Tab

The Inquiry tab controls how Inquiry scans your vault, saves briefings, writes action notes, and manages prompts and corpus thresholds.

For the operating guide to the Inquiry View itself, see Inquiry.

Briefings And Auto-save

• Briefing folder: Where Inquiry markdown briefings are stored when auto-save is enabled (default Radial Timeline/Inquiry/Briefing).
• Embed JSON payload in briefings: Includes the validated Inquiry JSON payload in the saved briefing.
• Auto-save Inquiry briefings: Save a briefing automatically after each successful Inquiry run.

Action Notes

• Write Inquiry action notes to scenes: Append Inquiry action notes to the target YAML field on hit scenes.
• Action notes target YAML field: Frontmatter field to receive Inquiry action notes (default Pending Edits).

Inquire Session History

• Inquire session history: Controls Inquiry View rehydration only. It does not affect saved Inquiry Briefs.
• Remember up to: Select how many recent sessions to keep for Inquiry View rehydration (10, 30, 60, or 100; max 100).

Inquiry Sources

• Inquiry class scope: Limit which YAML classes Inquiry can scan (use / to allow all classes).
• Inquiry scan folders: Limit scans to specific vault paths. Supports wildcards and / for vault root.
• Class enablement & scope: Toggle which classes are scanned and whether they apply to Book and/or Saga scopes.

How Inquiry Identifies Books

Inquiry uses two methods to identify which folders are books:

1. Folder name: Folders named Book 1, Book 2, and so on are automatically recognized as books.
2. Outline metadata: Any folder that contains an Outline file with scope: book in its YAML frontmatter is recognized as a book regardless of the folder name.

Example:

---
class: Outline
scope: book
---

The Outline file can be anywhere inside the book folder, including subfolders such as Plot/.

Inquiry Prompts

• Default prompts: Built-in prompt slots for Setup, Pressure, and Payoff zones.
• Custom questions: Add and reorder custom prompts per zone. Pro unlocks extra slots.

Note

The behavior of these prompts in the live view is documented in Inquiry.

Corpus (CC)

• Thresholds: Tune the word-count tiers (Empty, Sketchy, Medium, Substantive) used in Corpus cards.
• Highlight completed docs with low substance: Flags completed notes that remain in Empty or Sketchy tiers.

Note

See Corpus & Material Modes for how Inquiry uses these settings in actual runs.