Characters, places, events, secrets, chapters — all of it stays linked. Come back after three weeks and the shape of the story is still there, instead of scattered across forty notes.
You remember the scene.RedThread rememberswhy it matters.
01 — 04
A thread appears. It finds another. The story holds.
why?
Writing down what happened is easy. Remembering what it cost is the hard part.
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0104
Return
Come back to the thread you left.
Open a story and the cast, the open threads, and the place you stopped are already in front of you. No streak to keep. No penalty for the months you were gone.
No streak. No guilt.
RT / 01 — 2026
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0204
Connection
Nothing sits in a folder alone.
Link a character to a family, an item, a place, an event. Then say how the link actually stands: active, strained, broken, past, rumored, or kept secret.
A relationship has a status, not just a label
RT / 02 — 2026
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0304
Understanding
Three ways to read the same events.
Timeline puts events in world order. Braid stands that beside your chapter order, so you can see what you are revealing out of sequence. Atlas gives each character a lane and draws their thread only where they are actually present.
Timeline, Braid, Atlas
RT / 03 — 2026
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0404
Remember
Search for what you half remember.
Describe the scene in the wrong words and it still comes up. The model ships inside the app, so this works on a plane — and it works in German as well as English.
Offline. English or German.
RT / 04 — 2026
Built on your device
Your story tool should not need your story uploaded.
0
required clouds
THE DRAFT STAYS WITH THE WRITER • THE DRAFT STAYS WITH THE WRITER
01
Local by default
Story data lives in SQLite on your device. There is no account to make and no server to trust.
02
Search stays private
The embedding model is bundled in the app. Turn off wifi and semantic search keeps working, because it never needed one.
03
Your archive moves
Export the whole story as one .rthread file. Back it up, carry it to another device, keep it after you stop using RedThread.
04
Analytics stay off
Usage analytics are opt-in and off by default. They never carry story text, entity names, or search terms.
Accounts required
0Open the app and start.
Cloud servers required
0Story data and search both run on-device.
Story archive
1 .rthread fileBack up or move the complete story in one file.
RedThread Pocket / iPhone companion
The storyleaves the desk.Not you.
Pocket is RedThread for the moments between desks: write, check the shape of the story, and carry the work home without an account or a cloud service.
iPhone-firstOn-deviceDeliberate handoff
REDTHREAD POCKET01
Write before it vanishes.
Notes and manuscript pages open into one calm, autosaving canvas.
REDTHREAD POCKET02
Trace every turn.
Follow the chronology and its alternate paths without leaving the scene.
REDTHREAD POCKET03
Return on purpose.
Bring the work home only when you ask. No background sync. No second library.
Secrets have keepers. Mark who knows, who suspects, and who believes the wrong thing entirely — then mark the chapter where it comes out, and what it costs.
