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Welcome to ChapterDesk

A local writing studio for scene-by-scene story work with language models.

You do not chat with the model. You give a short direction for the next scene, read what comes back, and keep going. When a plot could go two ways, you fork the thread and keep both versions. When you want to read, you open the book view instead of the prompt.

ChapterDesk is for steering stories — not for claiming authorship. The model drafts the beat; you decide what happens next.

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Documentation

Looking for the searchable manual with screenshots and walkthrough videos? The full docs site lives at https://aschoerk.github.io/chapterdesk/.

This wiki is a mirror of the same manual — everything linked below is also there, with search.

Start here

New to ChapterDesk? Begin with these:

• Getting Started with ChapterDesk
• Download & Install
• Concepts: Topic, Environment, Story, Direction, Chapter
• Write Your First Chapter
• Delete and Restore Sections

Features

• Books (Environments) and moving stories
• Organize with topics
• Personas
• Continuations and the navigation bar
• Section actions and the context menu
• Read your story as a book
• Illustrate your chapters

Settings & reference

• Settings: Appearance, Providers, Tasks and Prompts
• Frequently asked questions
• Privacy

All manual chapters

• Story lore — canon for every prompt

This manual is generated from the ChapterDesk end-to-end test scenarios, so the screenshots always match the current app.