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PlotWeave is a local-first story bible for fiction writers. It tracks your characters, timeline, maps, items, relationships, lore, and continuity as your story evolves, stitches your scene prose into a manuscript, can build a whole world from a draft or an AI assistant, and can carry a series forward into a sequel.
Everything is stored privately in your browser (IndexedDB). No account, no backend, no internet connection required. Run it in a browser or as a desktop app.
This wiki mirrors the illustrated User Guide in the repository. The guide has screenshots; the wiki is organised for looking one thing up.
| Page | Description |
|---|---|
| Installation | Run PlotWeave in a browser or as a desktop app |
| Getting Started | Create your first world, timeline, event, and character |
| Core Concepts | The time cursor, snapshots, and inheritance — read this first |
You don't have to start from an empty world.
| Page | Description |
|---|---|
| The Library | Download story bibles built from published books |
| Reading Mode | Follow a book without being spoiled; hand your own world to a beta reader |
| Import a Manuscript | Turn an existing .md or .txt draft into a world in one step |
| Generating with AI | Build a world — or just a cast, a map, or your lore — with any AI assistant |
| Sequels | Fork book one into book two, carrying the cast and setting forward |
| Page | Description |
|---|---|
| World Dashboard | The bird's-eye view, writing progress, deadlines, and projections |
| Timeline & Events | Chapters, events, multiple timelines, and timeline relationships |
| Corkboard | Index-card view of the whole story; drag scenes to restructure |
| Manuscript | Read and export your book; find & replace, scene history, focus mode |
| Structure Board | Check the story against Three-Act, Save the Cat, or Hero's Journey |
| Page | Description |
|---|---|
| Characters | The cast, per-event state, and the Goals tab |
| Character Arc Grid | The whole cast across story time as a spreadsheet |
| Maps | Custom maps, sub-maps, floors, routes, regions, and character pins |
| Items | Objects, per-event placement and condition |
| Relationships | The graph, and how a bond changes over the story |
| Lore | Your world's reference wiki, with reveal events |
| Factions | Organisations, memberships, stances, and territories |
| Knowledge | Who knows what, and when they learn it |
| Page | Description |
|---|---|
| Continuity Checker | Contradictions, travel impossibilities, and dangling threads |
| Chapter Diff | Exactly what changed between any two moments |
| Cast Balance | Who is actually carrying this book |
| Plot Threads | Subplot cadence, gaps, and dangling threads |
| Motifs & Themes | The same, for symbolism rather than plot |
| Writer's Brief | Everything true at this moment, in one panel |
| Story Playback | Watch the cast move through the world |
| Search | Find any entity, event, or lore page instantly |
| Calendar & Ages | In-world dates, character ages, and the calendar view |
| Page | Description |
|---|---|
| Undo, Redo & Recent Changes | Stepping back through your edits |
| World Settings | Themes, travel modes, targets, database health, folder sync |
| Export and Import |
.pwk / .pwb backups, merging, and HTML export |
| Themes | The nine visual styles |
| Keyboard Shortcuts | Complete shortcut and interaction reference |
| Troubleshooting | Common problems and how to resolve them |
Everything in PlotWeave is read relative to an event. The pill next to the world name and the event bar along the bottom are two views of the same time cursor. Move it, and every screen answers "what is true at this exact moment?" — where each character is, what they carry, who is alive, which places are ruined, how relationships stand.
Changing the cursor never edits your story. See Core Concepts.