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Export & share

Hand the story bible to writers, voice directors, localisation or a publisher: Markdown, PDF, EPUB or a read-only link, accepted canon only.

Where Sidebar → Export & share

Export & share in The Ashbell Pass sample: format, scope and section choices on the left, download counts and buttons and read-only links on the right.

What you see

  1. What goes inThe Format (Report, Story bible as a book or Manuscript), the Scope (Whole project, Selected entities or One folder), the sections to include and Include portraits.
  2. DownloadCounts of canon facts, entities and sources (or documents and words for a manuscript), then Download Markdown, Save as PDF or Book as PDF, and Download EPUB for book formats.
  3. Read-only linksActive links with their scope, expiry and how often they were opened; turned-off and expired links below. Create link makes a new one.

Download the story bible

  1. Under Format, keep Report for facts with their source quotes.
  2. Pick a Scope and tick the sections you want. Open conflicts (not canon) is on by default and labelled as not canon; clear it to leave them out. Editorial notes are marked "not canon" and are off by default.
  3. Choose Download Markdown for a .md file (a .zip with an images folder when portraits are included).
  4. Or choose Save as PDF, then pick "Save as PDF" as the printer in the print dialog.

Make a book or the manuscript

  1. Under Format, choose Story bible as a book (cover, contents, a chapter per kind of entity, citations as notes) or Manuscript (your documents, latest versions, in reading order).
  2. Pick the Scope; a manuscript covers the whole project or one folder.
  3. Choose Book as PDF and print it with A4, default margins and headers and footers off, or choose Download EPUB.

Share a read-only link

  1. Set up What goes in the way you want the link to show it (links share the report, not the manuscript).
  2. Choose Create link, give it a Name for who it is for, and pick when it Expires: 7 days, 30 days or never.
  3. Choose Create link, then Copy link right away: the link cannot be shown again.
  4. Send it; people open it without signing in and see only this bible.

Turn off a link

  1. Under Read-only links, choose Turn off on the link.
  2. Confirm with Turn off link; anyone who opens it now sees that the link is not available.
  3. Lost a link? Turn it off and make a new one.

What an export holds

  • Accepted canon only, every fact with the exact source words it rests on. Sample canon is marked as such.
  • Facts citing an older source version are flagged in the export.
  • A shared link shows no drafts, candidates, notes, team members or other projects.
  • PDFs always print in the light theme.

Who can do what

Viewer
Download Markdown, PDF and EPUB exports.
Editor, admin, owner
Also create read-only links and turn them off.

Roles are per studio. Roles and permissions has the full list.