Character timeline tracker
Track who your characters were, not only who they are.
Lokee records when each fact became true, so you can read a character — and the whole world around them — as they stood at any point in your story.
Try the demoWhat a character timeline tracker has to do
A character is not one set of facts. Aria is a smith, then a soldier, then a queen, and each of those is true — at a different point in the story. A tool that keeps only the latest version makes you reconstruct the earlier ones from memory every time you write a flashback. Lokee keeps the change itself: what the value was, what it became, and the moment it happened.
Record a change instead of typing over the truth
Editing a field replaces what was there. Recording a change adds to the record — “title: queen, from the Coronation onward” — and the earlier value stays, attached to the stretch of story where it held. Every field keeps a history you can open, and each entry can say why it changed: the event that caused it, or a note in your own words.
Dates optional. Order is what counts.
Most invented worlds have no usable calendar, and plenty of writers never want one. Lokee's chronology is an ordered list of moments — the Coronation, the Long Winter — that you arrange by hand. A date is an annotation on a moment, in a calendar you defined or in real dates, and it is never required. Where a date disagrees with your ordering, Lokee marks the disagreement and leaves both as you wrote them.
See a character as they were at any point
Set Viewing to a moment and the whole vault answers as of then: attributes, relationships, the graph. It is the difference between asking who a character is and asking who they were in the chapter you are drafting — and the second question is the one that stops continuity errors before they are written.
What is true, and what your reader knows
A fact can be true long before the reader learns it. Lokee keeps the two orders apart: your world's chronology, and the narrative order of the manuscript. Mark where the reader finds each thing out, and you can see what is still a secret at a given chapter — useful for planning a reveal, and for a series bible someone else will read.
Relationships that begin, change and end
Alliances break. Marriages end. A mentor becomes a rival. Relationships carry their own records, so the graph at chapter 3 is not the graph at chapter 30, and a relationship that ended does not quietly vanish from the history of the characters who had it.
Events, periods, and what they changed
Your event plan and your world chronology meet on one surface. An event can sit at a single moment or span a period — a war, a reign, a journey — and the changes it caused can be attached to it, so an event reads as a list of what it did and to whom.
Your own edits, and the contradictions
Two things are easy to confuse and must stay apart: what happened in the fiction, and what you changed about your notes. Lokee logs authorial revisions separately, so renaming a character is never mistaken for the character being renamed. Alongside it, a consistency check looks for contradictions — two records that disagree about a value, a change nothing can place, an ordering that argues with its dates — reports them, and changes nothing. Each class of check can be switched off in settings if it is not the kind of care your project wants.
FAQ
What is a character timeline tracker?
A tool that stores a character's facts together with the moment each one became true, instead of storing a single current version. That lets you ask what a character was like earlier in the story, and lets a change stay visible as a change rather than as an overwrite.
Do I have to give my world dates?
No. The chronology is an ordered list of moments you arrange by hand, and a date on each one is optional. Use a calendar you invented, real dates, a mix, or none at all. Where a date and your ordering disagree, Lokee flags it instead of picking one.
Can I track what the reader knows separately from what is true?
Yes. The world's chronology and the manuscript's narrative order are kept apart, and you can mark where the reader learns each thing — so a fact can be settled in the world and still be a secret on the page.
Does it work with my manuscript?
Yes. You write in the built-in editor with your story bible open beside the chapter, and existing prose can be turned into reviewable suggestions — including suggestions that a fact changed, which you approve or reject one by one.
Will it change my text, or “fix” my continuity?
No. Lokee never rewrites your manuscript, and the consistency check reports contradictions without resolving them. Each class of check can be switched off in settings.
Where does my data live?
In a folder on your own machine. Lokee is local-first: the vault is plain files you can read, back up and export. Cloud sync is optional and paid, and everything described on this page works without it.