Build the world
Create people, places, events, creatures, objects, cultures, beliefs, histories, and ideas. Start small and add detail only when it becomes useful. If a fragment is useful, the current Studio can hold it as a simple Card.
The idea
A creative home for worlds that become detailed
A world may begin with one person, one place, one mystery, or one impossible idea. Then it grows. Characters gain histories. Places acquire neighbours. Beliefs split. Journeys need distances. Stories create consequences.
Canon Garden helps a creator hold that complexity without turning creativity into database work. The system can carry the structure while the creator sees one useful next step.
Currently a private creator pilot.
Canon Garden Guide
Learn how to organise imaginary worlds
The Guide starts with creative problems, then teaches the ideas that help a world become easier to hold, connect, review, and continue.
The next learning layer will add Canon Garden Foundations, a Practice World, progressive section modules, and exact Help links inside the private product.
The current promise
Make the world. Keep the truth clear.
Canon Garden is made for long-running books, series, comics, tabletop projects, games, and other creative work where the world needs to stay understandable as it changes.
Connect the pieces
Show who knows whom, what happened where, what caused what, who owns an object, which places are linked, and how one part of the world changes another.
Keep canon clear
Track draft ideas, review evidence, accepted truth, uncertainty, secrets, changes, and possible conflicts without letting the system decide canon automatically.
Review before accepting
Move material through a controlled review path before applying it to canon. Ready for canon is separate from Apply to canon.
Use world evidence
Guidance should use the world itself as evidence: source material, truth states, relationships, uncertainty, and consequences already present in the work.
Plan places and journeys
Record spatial meaning such as direction, distance, containment, adjacency, routes, regions, barriers, and travel relationships without forcing a map first.
Share safely
Keep private work private, choose what may be public, protect secrets and spoilers, and inspect what other people will actually see before publication.
Prepare reader pathways
Future public surfaces should help readers enter and understand selected parts of a world through safe, creator-approved routes and doorway pages.
Stay creator-owned
The creator remains the author. Canon Garden can organise, check, question, connect, teach, and explain; it must not silently invent or promote canon.
Spatial worlds
Know where things are before deciding how they should look
Canon Garden is not an RPG or a world simulator. It is not intended to become a full cartography, game, or simulation application. Its job is to understand useful spatial truth: direction, distance, containment, adjacency, routes, regions, barriers, and travel relationships.
That information can support story journeys, continuity checks, and future map-oriented views without forcing the creator to rebuild the world from scratch.
Creator control
The world stays yours
Guidance should use the creator's own world, choices, connections, and canon as evidence. The creator remains the author.
- Draft freely before deciding what becomes accepted truth.
- Review exact evidence before applying canon.
- Use guidance when it is useful and keep it quiet when it is not.
- Let checks point out possible problems without letting the system decide canon automatically.
- Keep private material separate from deliberate public output.
- Export work and use guarded closure, recovery, and deletion controls.
Simple roadmap
Where Canon Garden is going
The current priority is to make the existing creator product safe, understandable, learnable, and usable without assistance before adding another advanced surface.
Build and connect
Create worlds, make and edit Cards, add structured details, connect material, edit relationships, and review the resulting world structure.
Accept canon safely
Validation feedback, review toward canon, explicit Apply to canon, accepted snapshots, and Ledger history are already part of the private system.
Complete the Private Beta Foundation
Add reliable Sign out, shared navigation, three-world capacity, protected account lifecycle, clearer Story World structure, progressive learning, and unaided creator proof.
Show useful guidance
The deterministic Predictive Guidance runtime is built. Its creator-facing display comes after the private beta foundation passes.
Talk a world into structure
World Conversation should let a creator speak naturally, inspect proposed structure, correct it, and save it through existing creator controls.
Use connected world evidence
Story, chronology, geography, knowledge, reveal, recovery, genre, and controlled connected-world tools should all read from protected canon evidence.
Open richer world spaces
Later work may add richer world homes, collaboration safeguards, portable formats, doorway pages, paid additional capacity, and wider creator-controlled publishing.
The main principle
Complexity in. One useful next step out.
The system can hold many Cards, relationships, histories, checks, visibility rules, story signals, and future world-use evidence. The creator should not have to face all of them at once.
Complexity should reduce to one useful next step.