Museiki
Every character, place, faction, item, and glossary term gathered into encyclopedia articles — built from what you have already written.
Museiki reads your story world the way a reader would. It takes the cards and glossary entries you have already filled in and lays them out as encyclopedia articles — a title, a lead, the sections you wrote, a quick-facts box with the portrait or crest, and numbered references back to your research. There is nothing new to maintain: it is the same records, read as an encyclopedia rather than as a form.
Museiki — an article with its quick-facts box and index
- 1Open Museiki from the app menu (the ChapterMuse wordmark), or press Ctrl G and click Open Museiki.
- 2Choose a universe, and narrow to a single book with the book filter if you want.
- 3Pick a subject from the A-Z index on the left — it scrolls, and never navigates away.
- 4Follow an underlined name in the prose to jump to that subject’s own article.
- 5Use Add term for a piece of lore that has no card of its own.
What an Article Holds
- A title with its rule, any “also known as” names, and a line giving the kind — plus pronunciation, status, and how often it is used when the subject is a glossary term
- A quick-facts box floated to the right carrying the portrait — or, for a faction, its heraldic crest — with the prose wrapping around it
- The lead, then your own profile sections, then a gallery of any other images
- Numbered references to the research documents attached to that subject
- An “Appears in” footer showing the books and universes the subject belongs to
One Subject, One Article
A character does not get one page for their card and another for every glossary entry about them. Aliases, nicknames, and descriptive terms fold into that subject’s single article, so the encyclopedia reads like an encyclopedia rather than a card index.
- A term that names an entity folds into that entity’s article as an alternative name
- A descriptor shared by many characters — a species, for instance — keeps its own article rather than folding into whichever character it was read from
- A faction’s motto folds into the faction it belongs to
- Spelling approvals from Chapter Check are dictionary entries, not subjects, so they never become articles
Reading Across Your World
- Story-world names inside an article are underlined and link straight through to that subject’s page; the index scrolls to the item as you land on it
- Highlighting is scoped to the universe you are reading, so a name in one world never links into another
- Open a reference and the research document opens right there in the main view, with a back button to return to the article
- The contents index at the top of an article scrolls you to a section rather than leaving the page
Where It Lives, and How to Change It
- A standalone page from the app menu, and a drawer you can open anywhere — press Ctrl G, then Open Museiki
- Scoped to a universe, with a book filter for narrowing to one manuscript
- Articles are edited at their source: open the entity’s sheet, or the glossary term, and Museiki follows
- Add term creates a card-less glossary entry — a language, a law, a coined word — with as many titled note sections as it needs
- Duplicate glossary entries can be merged from the glossary panel, choosing which text wins on any field where they disagree
- Export the whole encyclopedia, or just the pages you tick, from Export then Museiki
Museiki is the fastest way to find the gaps in a world. Read a few articles as a stranger would: the ones that stop after a single line are exactly the parts of your world that are still only in your head.