u/FSNeal

Idea Management Vault for Writers and World Builders

Idea Management Vault for Writers and World Builders

Built this idea management vault for writers and world builders concerned about continuity. Thought someone might find it useful.

The central conceit: you catch story and world ideas the messy, jump-around way they actually arrive and jot them down as quick notes called sparks. A co-pilot (free) prompt auto-tags them. Dataview makes indexes of all your sparks (organized and raw) so you can edit through them. Contradictions in your ides get auto-flagged. Ideas you reject get stored in an archive. Smart connection and graph give you relevance and connections.

Once you've made all your creative decisions and decided what's what, there's a catalog of all your (now approved) sparks. Another prompt runs a report for you on any character, place, the themes in your work, facets of your magic system — any story element really — and that pulls every idea you ever wrote about that topic onto one clean (canonical) reference page, organized by subtopic.

I use this vault to ease the burden of getting notes and ideas ironed out before starting in on drafting prose, and it also generates abbreviated cheat sheets of everything in a scene for use as a continuity reference while you're writing. Inspired by Luhmann's Zettelkasten.

Up on Git Hub

Screenshots (theme is Wasp)

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u/FSNeal — 6 days ago