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A character name probably came up at least once in the document you wrote earlier. Pull that name out into a sheet. Sheets hold the details of things that recur in the story, like people, places, and organizations.

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Making one straight from the document

Drag to select the character name in the body, right-click, and pick Character under Create sheet. The selected text becomes the sheet title as it is, and that spot in the body turns into a mention pointing at the new sheet. It reads the same, but the two files are now linked. The screen does not move to the sheet, so you can keep writing. Press Open in the notification and you go there then. You can also open New Sheet from More at the right of Project in the sidebar.
The right-click menu is open with a character name selected in the body, and the “Create sheet” submenu shows Character, Event, Organization, Item, Location, Worldbuilding, and Other.
The right-click menu is open with a character name selected in the body, and the “Create sheet” submenu shows Character, Event, Organization, Item, Location, Worldbuilding, and Other.

The menu that turns a name selected in the body into a character sheet.

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Organizing the details with properties

Open a sheet and there are two rows under the title: Category and Description. Properties are the rows you add on to those. Make one row each for the entries you keep going back to look up about that character, like Age or Affiliation. Press Add Property and a dropdown opens. Pick a type, write a name, then press Create. The types are Text, Tags, Documents, and sheets by category. That last type takes other sheets as its value. Hang an Organization sheet on Affiliation and you jump straight there from it. If writing them out yourself is a bother, use Choose from template. It holds the entries in common use, like Name, English Name, Hanja Name, Title, Age, Affiliation, and Abilities.
A character sheet with three or four properties filled in, the “Add Property” dropdown open, and the “Choose from template” submenu showing Name, English Name, Title, and so on.
A character sheet with three or four properties filled in, the “Add Property” dropdown open, and the “Choose from template” submenu showing Name, English Name, Title, and so on.

Adding a property by picking from the template.

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From the second character on it gets faster

Make a sheet under another sheet and it inherits the property layout of the one above. Only the names, types, and order carry over; the values are empty. Build the protagonist’s sheet well and make the supporting cast under it, and every character ends up with the same entries in the same order. Tag properties go one step further. Across sheets in the same category, tag properties with the same name gather their values and offer them as candidates. From the next character on, you pick the Abilities tags rather than typing them. Next it is time to lay the story out on a plotboard.