Everything your story needs to exist.
Six interlocking tools built for the way writers actually think. Not documents, not cards — a structured world that grows with your story.
Characters
The soul of your cast.
Full character sheets with Big Five personality traits, custom fields, backstory, and a visual relationship web. Track every role, alias, and arc across your entire story. Characters are first-class entities — not just names in a list.
- Big Five personality trait sliders
- Custom field types: text, date, number, enum
- Visual relationship web with typed connections
- Aliases, nicknames, and alternate identities
- Backstory and private notes
Events & Chronicle
Time, ordered and searchable.
Log every event in your narrative, from a whispered betrayal to a continent-shaking battle. Track participants, causes, consequences, and narrative arc across volumes and eras — in any order you choose to write them.
- Multi-volume and multi-era timelines
- Participant tracking with role tags
- Causes, consequences, and follow-up events
- Chronicle view: linear or nested
- Link events to characters, places, and items
Secret Ledger
The lies that drive your plot.
Every great story runs on secrets. RedThread's Secret Ledger tracks not just what happened — but who knows, who suspects, who's been deliberately misled, and who has no idea. Four keeper statuses map the full epistemic landscape of your plot.
- Four keeper statuses: Knows, Suspects, Misled, Unaware
- Secrets linked to events, characters, and groups
- Automatic cross-reference across all keeper assignments
- Private notes per keeper entry
- Filter by secret, by character, or by status
Worlds & Maps
The geography of your imagination.
Define the worlds your story inhabits — from a single city to a galaxy of civilizations. Nested places build your geography from continent down to street. Pin locations to maps and annotate them with lore, history, and events.
- Multiple worlds per story
- Hierarchical place nesting: world → region → city → district
- Map upload with pinnable locations
- Lore fields, history notes, and atmosphere tags
- Place-linked events, characters, and items
Families & Groups
Power structures made visible.
Noble houses, factions, guilds, and cults are first-class entities in RedThread. Track membership, hidden loyalties, leadership hierarchies, and the web of influence that shapes your world's politics.
- Groups as first-class entities (not just tags)
- Membership with start dates, roles, and hidden flags
- Family trees with generational depth
- Faction rivalries and alliances
- Group-linked events, places, and secrets
Species & Items
The fabric of your world.
Define the species that populate your world — their traits, culture, physiology, and history. Catalog the artifacts and relics that move through your narrative, with full provenance, powers, and current whereabouts.
- Species with biological and cultural traits
- Character-species linking with subspecies
- Items with provenance chains
- Legendary / mundane / cursed classification
- Item location history: who held it, when
Your story in four moves
Create a story
Give your story a name, a cover, a world. RedThread gives it a home — organized, searchable, and ready to grow as your narrative expands.
Build your cast
Add characters with full sheets: personality traits, custom fields, backstory, and a relationship web that shows exactly who knows who — and how.
Chronicle events
Log what happens, who was there, and what it means. The Chronicle view organizes events across volumes and eras — forward and backward through time.
Weave the secrets
Track the hidden truths that drive your plot. Who knows, who suspects, who's been misled. The Secret Ledger keeps every lie straight.
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