This walks through the Wiki from an empty canvas to a linked, working reference. If you want to know what the Wiki is first, start with What is the Wiki?.
Open your story and click Wiki in the tabs across the top.
The fast path: generate it from your chapters
If you already have chapters written, don't start by typing.
Click Generate Wiki. It reads the full text of every chapter in the story and builds categories, entries, and connections from what's there. Existing work is never overwritten — generation only adds.
It runs in the background. Close the dialog, keep writing, and watch progress in the bottom-left corner. It costs nothing.
When it finishes you'll have a populated canvas to correct rather than a blank one to fill. Read through it — it works from your text, so it'll be roughly right and occasionally wrong, and fixing an entry is faster than writing one.
The manual path
1. Add a category
A new story's Wiki starts completely empty — no categories at all. Entries have to live in a category, so this is always the first step.
Click Add Category. Pick a type (Characters, Locations, Systems, Factions, Organizations, Other) and give it a name.
The type controls the icon and colour; the name is free text. Don't feel confined to one category per type — "Main Cast" and "Antagonists" can both be Characters, and they'll stay visually consistent while staying apart.
2. Add entries
Each category card has an Add entry button in its footer. Give the entry a name and a short description.
Write the description even when it feels redundant. It's what shows in the @mention hover card and on the public page, so a one-line "Captain of the Vale guard, lost her sword arm at Aldmere" is worth more later than a blank you'll have to click through.
Click an entry to open it. Inside you can:
- Write a full body — as long as you want, formatted like a chapter.
- Upload an image.
- Add sub-entries for things that belong to it.
- Manage its connections.
- Toggle whether readers can see it.
3. Connect related entries
Drag from the handle on one entry card to another. That's a connection: a stated relationship between two things.
Connections show up in each entry's Connections list, where you can also remove them. Use them for the relationships you'll actually forget — who betrayed whom, which sect a technique belongs to. Connecting everything to everything tells you nothing.
4. Arrange the canvas
Drag cards anywhere. Positions are saved, so build the layout that matches how you think — factions in clusters, a timeline left to right, whatever holds.
The minimap and zoom controls sit in the corner for when it grows.
Linking entries from your chapters
This is the part that makes the Wiki pay off, and it's the part most authors never find.
In the chapter editor, type @ and start typing a name. Matching entries appear; pick one and it drops in a link.
Hover it any time afterwards to see that entry's description without leaving the chapter. That's the whole point: checking a detail mid-sentence costs you nothing, so you actually check instead of guessing.
Readers don't see any of this. To them it's plain text — the name, no link, no hover. @mention is an authoring tool. Use it for your own recall, not as a reading feature.
Mentions are saved when the chapter saves.
Publishing entries for readers
Your Wiki is private. Every entry is invisible to readers until you say otherwise, one entry at a time.
To publish one, open it and switch on Make public.
Two things to know:
- Your story must be published and public first. Until then the toggle is unavailable.
- It's per entry, on purpose. Publish the pantheon and the map; keep the entry explaining who the traitor is to yourself.
Once at least one entry is public, readers get a Wiki page for your story and an "Explore the Wiki" link on the story page. With nothing public, the page simply doesn't exist.
A workflow that holds up
- Write a few chapters first. Don't build a Wiki for a story that doesn't exist yet — see why worldbuilding should come last.
- Run Generate Wiki once you have material.
- Correct what it got wrong and delete what you don't need.
@mentionnames as you write new chapters.- Add entries when you invent something, not in a separate session later — the Wiki you keep is the one you update in the moment.
- Publish the entries that help readers and hold back the ones that spoil.
Next
- What are plot threads? — for tracking arcs rather than things.
- How to track characters across a long serial — the craft side.