Help
How every screen works, step by step with the labels you see in the app, and the ideas behind canon, evidence, conflicts and impact. In the app, the ? button on any page opens its help here.
Start here
- 1Sign up and open a sampleCreate an account, set up your studio and first project, then try a sample story or bring your own lore.
- 2Review the AI’s candidatesDecide on the facts the AI proposed: accept them into canon, correct them first, or reject them with a reason.
- 3Browse canonEvery fact a person accepted, each linked to the exact passage it came from, as a list, a relationship graph and a story timeline.
- 4Settle conflictsScan accepted canon for timing, travel, relationship, detail and world-rule clashes, then judge each possible conflict.
- 5See a change’s impactRewrite one canon fact and see which facts and documents it may touch, up to 2 hops away, before anything in canon changes.
Documents and writing
Import, read, write and record the sources canon comes from.
- HomeYour project at a glance: the workflow from import to change impact, the next step to take, your drafts and the latest documents.
- LibraryEvery source document at its latest version: upload, organise into folders and tags, and see which canon cites each one.
- ReaderRead a source document with line numbers, find words, and turn selected words into facts, entities, notes, research or a continuity check.
- HistoryEvery version of a document, who added it and how, and a passage-by-passage comparison that shows which canon to re-check.
- Script vs recordingCompare a voice take with the script it was read from, line by line, and see which changed or added lines clash with canon.
- WriteWrite or paste a document in the app, keep it as a private draft, check it against canon, and save it to the story as a new version.
Canon workflow
Review candidates, keep canon, settle conflicts and plan changes.
- ReviewDecide on the facts the AI proposed: accept them into canon, correct them first, or reject them with a reason.
- CanonEvery fact a person accepted, each linked to the exact passage it came from, as a list, a relationship graph and a story timeline.
- EntitiesA wiki page for every character, place, item, faction and event, made automatically from accepted canon or added by hand.
- Entity pageEverything about one character, place or thing: what canon says, its timeline, relationships, appearances, images and team notes.
- ConflictsScan accepted canon for timing, travel, relationship, detail and world-rule clashes, then judge each possible conflict.
- ChangesRewrite one canon fact and see which facts and documents it may touch, up to 2 hops away, before anything in canon changes.
- TasksRe-review the documents an applied canon change may have affected: assign them, set due dates, track status and leave comments.
- NotesEvery note in the project, pinned to the words it is about: questions, fixes and references for your team.
Ask, research and tools
Questions, outside research, AI runs, measurements, the audit log and export.
- AskTeam conversations about your story: Canon answers from accepted canon with sources, Research looks up the real world and never becomes canon.
- ResearchAsk how the real world works and get an answer with checked sources and calculations, kept as a note for the team. Never canon.
- Agent activityEvery AI run in the project: which agent, what it was about, each step it took, and what people did with the result.
- MetricsScore the project against a small hand-labelled gold set and see every model call: the developer view of how the AI behaves.
- Audit logThe append-only history of imports, proposals, human decisions and canon changes, in plain sentences. Nothing here can be edited.
- Export & shareHand the story bible to writers, voice directors, localisation or a publisher: Markdown, PDF, EPUB or a read-only link, accepted canon only.
Studio and settings
Your studio, profile, team, projects and agent access.
- Studio settingsName your studio, see your plan and find the tabs for your profile, team, projects and agent tokens.
- ProfileChange your name, your log-in email and your password, and see your role in this studio.
- TeamSee who is in the studio, change roles, and invite people with single-use links.
- ProjectsEvery story world in the studio: create a project, open one, and set its medium, art style, research profile, conflict defaults and entity types.
- Agents & APICreate API tokens and connect an AI agent or MCP client to this project, to read canon, run checks and propose candidates. A person decides what becomes canon.
How it works
The ideas behind the screens.
- Roles and permissionsWhat owners, admins, editors and viewers can do in a studio and its projects.
- Candidates and canonThe AI and agents only propose candidates. A fact becomes canon when a person accepts it, and every decision keeps a name.
- Evidence and verbatim quotesEvery canon fact rests on a quote that appears word for word in a source passage. A quote that isn't there blocks the fact.
- Conflict rulesThe narrow checks CanonTracker runs over accepted canon, what each one catches, and how hard and soft conflicts are judged.
- Change impactBefore a canon fact changes, see which facts and documents (scenes, lore, quests, dialogue, recordings) it may touch, up to 2 hops away, with the path and evidence for each.
- Versions and re-checkSources are never edited in place: a changed file is a new version, and canon that cites an older version asks to be re-checked.
- Merges and identityWhen two entity pages are the same person, place or thing, a merge makes them one and everything downstream follows.
- GlossaryThe words CanonTracker uses, each in a sentence or two.
- Keyboard shortcutsEvery keyboard shortcut in CanonTracker, from the same list the app uses.