Purpose
A guide that teaches as you go
The Guide explains the thinking behind the app. It starts with creative problems, then shows the ideas that help solve them.
You should be able to read it before using the app and still come away with a better way to organise a world.
Start here
Start with these articles
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What Canon Garden Is
How loose ideas become a world you can return to.
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Why Worlds Get Hard to Keep Track Of
Why growing worlds get harder to remember and use.
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What Is a Card?
How individual ideas get a clear place to live inside a world.
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How Ideas Connect to Make a World
How ideas start to matter when they affect each other.
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What Canon Means
How to know which version of an idea currently counts.
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How an Idea Becomes Canon
The path from draft to review to explicit Apply to canon.
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How Fragments Become Ideas
How small pieces can become useful parts of a world.
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Why World Details Matter
How surrounding facts make ideas clearer and easier to use.
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Glossary
Plain definitions for the main terms, with links back to the articles that use them.
Writing rules
What this Guide is trying to do
- Start with the creative problem.
- Use short, clear paragraphs.
- Give concrete examples before abstract terms.
- Keep the creator in control.
- Teach one useful step at a time.
- Separate future concepts from what the current Studio can do now.