World Building
A Codex that holds an entire world, and a series.
Characters, locations, factions, magic systems, lore, cultures, languages, timeline, glossary, lineages, regions, maps, storylines, and items, each with the fields that kind of entry actually needs. Tag a name from inside the manuscript and it stays linked to its entry everywhere it appears, across every book in the series.
One linked Codex
Every character, place, and made-up word, connected for good.
Highlight a name while you are drafting and link it to its Codex entry without leaving the page. It stays linked everywhere that name appears again, across every book in the series, so renaming a character is one edit rather than a search through 80,000 words.
What the Codex tracks
Real structure per category, not one generic notecard.
14 kinds of entry, each with its own fields
A magic system is not recorded the way a character is, so the fields differ; you are filling in a form built for the thing in front of you.
- Characters
- Locations
- Factions
- Magic Systems
- Lore
- Cultures
- Languages
- Timeline
- Glossary
- Lineages
- Regions
- Maps
- Storylines
- Items
World history, not just scene order
The Codex's own Timeline tracks your world's history; the war, the founding, the disappearance; distinct from the order your scenes happen to be told in.
Tag from your prose
Highlight a name while you're writing and link it straight to its Codex entry; no separate pass to keep a spreadsheet of names in sync.
One entry, everything it knows
Open a character and the rest of the book is already attached.
An entry is not a note. It holds the fields its category calls for, the scene the name first appears in, and every relationship you have recorded, each in your own words rather than a generic arrow. Change the name here and Calamus goes and finds it in the manuscript for you.
- Relationships listed on the entry itself, worded by you
- First Appears, so you can find where a name entered the book
- Rename in manuscript lists every mention with the sentence around it, and writes nothing until you confirm
- Fields that suit the category: a character has Allegiance and a POV flag, a magic system does not
- One Codex across a whole series, so book four agrees with book one
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