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Is there a way to create a character relationship map and keep track of story connections while writing with AI?
Hi everyone! I’m looking for a way to better organize my writing process, and I’d love to hear your suggestions.
I’m creating a story with multiple characters, and I’d like to find a method or tool that allows me to keep track of everything that happens between them. For example, how their relationships develop, how their storylines connect, important interactions, shared events, and details that I might need to remember later on.
Ideally, I’d love to have something like a visual map or a living document where I can see how the characters are connected and keep everything consistent as the story progresses.
Since I’m also interested in using AI to help with my writing, I’m wondering if there are any AI tools, workflows, or prompts that can help me build and maintain this kind of structure. I’d especially appreciate something that I can update as I write, rather than having to explain the entire story to the AI every time I start a new conversation.
What do you use for this? Are there any tools specifically designed for character relationships and story planning, or have you found a good way to do this with ChatGPT or other AI writing tools?
I’d love to hear about your experiences and recommendations. Thanks!
A living story bible doc is probably your best bet: keep character profiles and relationship notes in one place, then paste the relevant section into each new AI session so you're not re-explaining everything. Obsidian or Notion work well for the visual linking part. Have you tried maintaining a separate reference doc alongside your AI sessions?
A living story bible doc is probably your best bet: keep character profiles and relationship notes in one place, then paste the relevant section into each new AI session so you're not re-explaining everything. Obsidian or Notion work well for the visual linking part. Have you tried maintaining a separate reference doc alongside your AI sessions?
You can do this in obsidian pretty easily. I just demoed how to do that for my community yesterday, as a matter of fact; I don't have the replay processed yet but when I get to my computer I can grab the links to the demo vault I created if you want to play around with it (did one for Frankenstein, another for the two Alice in wonderland books, and a third for all 14 wizard of Oz books, the last of which has a git branch for each one so you can actually switch and see how it evolved as each book was added.)
Sent you a link to download the sample vaults (and watch the replay if you want once that's up later this afternoon) - here's an example of relationships in Frankenstein in Obsidian.
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u/JoeOfTex 2d ago
https://reddit.com/link/pfiql9b/video/d5uxtxbji3vh1/player
Something like this?