A plot thread is one storyline running through your story. The romance. The war with the northern sects. The slow reveal of who your protagonist's father was.
Plot Threads is the tab where you lay those out as tracks and fill each with the events that make it up. Where the Wiki holds the things in your story, Plot Threads holds the shape of it.
Where it is
Open a story and click Plot Threads in the tabs across the top, between Wiki and Paywall. There's also a Plot Threads card on your story dashboard.
How it's built
A thread is one arc. It's a horizontal track with a name and a colour. "Kess and the Envoy." "The Sixth Seal." One per storyline you're carrying.
Events are the beats on that track. Each event has a title, an icon, a colour, and a description you can write in full. "They meet." "She lies about the ring." "The lie surfaces."
Events can nest. An event can hold sub-events, so "The Siege of Aldmere" can expand into the specific scenes that make it up. You can go as granular as you find useful and collapse it when you don't.
Events can reference your Wiki. Inside an event's description you can @mention Wiki entries, so a beat can point at the character or artifact it turns on.
Drag events to reorder them along the track.
What it's for, honestly
This is a map, not a monitor.
It holds exactly what you put in it and tells you nothing back. There's no link between an event and a chapter, and no open/resolved status on a thread. It won't warn you that you seeded something in chapter 3 and never paid it off — it doesn't know your chapters exist.
That's worth saying plainly because "plot tracking" often implies software that watches for dangling threads. This isn't that. It's a place to see your arcs, in one picture, laid over each other.
Which is genuinely useful, and it's most useful for a specific problem: when you're forty chapters into a serial carrying five storylines and you've lost the sense of which ones have gone quiet. A glance at the tracks shows you the romance has had one beat in twenty chapters. Nothing told you that — you saw it.
When to use it
Worth it if you're running multiple storylines at once, writing out of order, planning where an arc lands before you write it, or coming back after a break and needing to reload where everything stood.
Probably not worth it if you're writing one linear storyline and holding it comfortably in your head. A diagram of a straight line isn't telling you anything.
Next
- How to use plot threads — the step-by-step.
- What is the Wiki? — for the people, places, and systems themselves.