How to use this
Use the glossary to understand Guide words
Each term has a short definition and links back to the Guide pages that explain it in context.
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Card
A saved part of a world, such as a person, place, object, event, group, rule, or idea.
Used when: an idea needs somewhere clear to live.
Read with: What Is a Card?
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Draft
Private working material that can still be shaped, edited, and connected.
Used when: an idea is inside Canon Garden but not yet accepted as canon.
Read with: How an Idea Becomes Canon
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Canon
What is currently true in a world.
Used when: the creator needs to know which version of an idea still counts.
Read with: What Canon Means
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Ready for canon
A reviewed state showing that the current evidence is ready for the creator's explicit decision.
Used when: the material has been checked, but canon has not yet been applied.
Read with: How an Idea Becomes Canon
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Apply to canon
The creator's explicit decision to accept the exact reviewed state as canon.
Used when: Ready for canon should become Canon applied.
Read with: How an Idea Becomes Canon
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Canon applied
The accepted state is durable, protected, and recorded with history.
Used when: a reviewed Card has become accepted canon.
Read with: How an Idea Becomes Canon
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Canon Ledger
The history of meaningful accepted changes in the world.
Used when: the creator needs to know what changed and why.
Read with: How an Idea Becomes Canon
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Creator ownership
The principle that the world belongs to the person creating it.
Used when: the creator keeps control of the world.
Read with: What Canon Garden Is
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Fragment
A useful piece of an idea that is not complete yet.
Used when: the creator has something worth saving, but not enough to turn it into a full part of the world yet.
Current Studio note: a fragment can be saved as a simple General Card until the richer Fragment system exists.
Read with: How Fragments Become Ideas
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Relationship
A meaningful connection between two parts of a world.
Used when: one idea affects, belongs to, depends on, knows, changes, or explains another idea.
Read with: How Ideas Connect to Make a World
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World Detail
Surrounding evidence that helps a Card become clearer and easier to use.
Used when: a place, person, object, event, or idea needs information about where, when, conditions, effects, or who knew.
Read with: Why World Details Matter
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Validation
A check that can point out missing, risky, stale, or contradictory material without deciding canon for the creator.
Used when: the creator wants to know whether something is ready to review.
Read with: How an Idea Becomes Canon
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Public projection
A safe selected view of world material prepared for public readers.
Used when: private material must not be shown directly.
Read with: What Canon Garden Is
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Predictive Guidance
Evidence-backed guidance that can surface one useful clarification, connection, consequence, or pressure from the creator's own world material.
Used when: the system has enough evidence to show a useful next creative move without changing the world automatically.
Read with: Roadmap