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Keep your story's structure consistent

Each guide teaches one workflow end to end: why it matters for the story, and exactly how to do it in Lokee. They follow the app as it is today, including where it works differently on desktop and on the web.

Written by Paweł Arent, the creator of Lokee.

  1. Setting up a story bible that scales: types, fields and relationships before the world grows

    A story bible template that still works at 300 entries: which entity types, fields and relationship types to set up first, shown on a real Lokee vault.

    15 min read · Updated October 11, 2026

  2. Three kinds of “when”: what is true, when it happened, when the reader learns it

    Narrative order vs chronological order vs what is true now: keep the three apart and flashbacks, reveals and rewrites stop turning into continuity errors.

    14 min read · Updated October 11, 2026

  3. Record changes instead of overwriting them: a character's history you can read back

    How to track character changes over time in a story bible: record each change at a moment, read the history back, and keep the card's present intact.

    14 min read · Updated October 11, 2026

  4. Plan your plot with story events and the changes they cause

    Build a cause and effect plot outline in Lokee: nest events, place them in world time, link causes, and record what each one changed in your cast.

    14 min read · Updated October 11, 2026

  5. Run a continuity check before every draft: what each finding means and how to fix it

    Find continuity errors in a novel before a reader does: what each Lokee finding means, how to fix it, and a ten-minute routine to run before every draft.

    13 min read · Updated October 11, 2026

  6. Keeping a mystery fair: clues, alibis and reveals in two orders of time

    Plot a fair-play mystery in two orders of time: the crime as it happened and what each chapter tells the reader, with alibis a consistency check can break.

    14 min read · Updated October 11, 2026

  7. Building a calendar and timeline for an invented world

    Build a fantasy calendar for your invented world, date births and battles in it, and keep the chronology straight even when the dates come last.

    14 min read · Updated October 11, 2026

  8. Alternate histories and branching timelines without corrupting canon

    Branch an alternate history timeline from one moment in Lokee, test a what-if and keep canon untouched: what a branch inherits and how to delete it.

    13 min read · Updated October 11, 2026

  9. Family sagas and succession: lineage, doubt and inheritance over time

    Build a family tree for writers' sagas: parents and partners, alleged and disputed lines, titles that pass at a moment, and the one warning the tree gives.

    13 min read · Updated October 11, 2026

  10. Mapping a world that changes: borders, rulers and wars

    Keep one fantasy map with changing borders: reshape a border from a moment on, hand a province to a new ruler, and replay a war front by front in Lokee.

    13 min read · Updated October 11, 2026

  11. Following characters across the map, chapter by chapter

    Track character locations in Lokee: record each move at its moment, read trails, compare two moments and catch anyone who is in two places at once.

    14 min read · Updated October 11, 2026

  12. From a sketch to an editable atlas

    Digitize a hand-drawn map in Lokee: import the scan, review what was found, fix borders, link places to your story bible and grow it into an atlas.

    14 min read · Updated October 11, 2026

  13. Turning an existing draft into a living story bible

    Build a story bible from your manuscript: import the draft, let Lokee propose characters, places and dated events, review every item, then tidy and check.

    12 min read · Updated October 11, 2026

  14. Reading your relationship graph to find plot holes

    Find plot holes before readers do: focus, filters, clusters and the graph at a past moment show isolated characters, unearned betrayals and missing scenes.

    11 min read · Updated October 11, 2026

  15. Working with co-authors, editors and beta readers

    Co-writing a novel in Lokee: invite a co-author or editor from the vault, hear about every comment, and give beta readers a clean reading view.

    14 min read · Updated October 12, 2026

  16. How to start worldbuilding for a novel: five decisions, one session, and a story bible that stays small

    Start from the story's questions, not an encyclopedia. The five decisions that pay off first, a first-session worksheet and what to leave fuzzy on purpose.

    14 min read · Updated October 11, 2026

  17. Worldbuilding while you write: answer the world's questions as the scenes raise them

    Worldbuilding tips for novelists mid-draft: the smallest rule that settles a scene, escaping the research rabbit hole, exposition discipline and a weekly habit.

    14 min read · Updated October 11, 2026

  18. How to organize worldbuilding notes: from scattered files to one system you can search

    Entity, note or field? Aliases, folders, tags and links; moving old notes in; and what a good-enough story bible looks like at 50, 300 and 1,000 entries.

    15 min read · Updated October 11, 2026

  19. How Lokee helps with worldbuilding: an honest tour of what it does and what it leaves to you

    Lokee as worldbuilding software, module by module: entities, graph, timelines, maps, the Writer, import and the consistency check, and what each leaves to you.

    13 min read · Updated October 11, 2026