Calliope

The Map & structure

Your book's memory, and its shape

The Map remembers who's who and what's true across a whole manuscript; structure keeps its parts and chapters in order. Both tend your book so you can hold the story instead of the bookkeeping — and neither ever writes a word of your prose.

The Map

Everyone and everything, remembered

The Map is your book's memory. Each fact — a character, a place, a fact — carries its aliases, its attributes, every mention across your chapters, and its memory states: what's true when, so a detail from chapter two doesn't contradict chapter twenty.

Ask who knew what, or where a name last appeared, and the answer is grounded in the real draft. The Map docs walk through facts, aliases, and memory states in full.

The Calliope Map showing a character with aliases, attributes, and mentions

Recognition

It notices the names as you write

As you type, Calliope recognises names already in your Map and quietly links them to their fact. Entity detection goes a step further: when a new character or place shows up, it proposes adding it — it only ever proposes, never decides for you.

And when the same person has crept in twice, find-duplicates spots the pair so you can merge them into one fact — aliases, mentions, and all. Your canon stays clean without you policing it.

Calliope recognising a name in the draft and linking it to the Map

Structure

The shape of the whole book

Structure holds your book's skeleton — parts and chapters you can quick-add, reorder by dragging, and tag with a status so you can see at a glance what's drafted, what's revising, what's done. It's the outline and the table of contents in one, always current.

Each chapter carries a synopsis, with a stale marker when the prose has moved on and the summary hasn't. A print format view even shows page counts, so you know how big the thing really is. See the structure docs for the details.

The structure view with parts, chapters, statuses, and synopses

Tends your canon, never your prose

Let the bookkeeping keep itself

The Map and structure carry the memory and the shape of your book so your attention can stay on the story. Everything they do lands in the canon, beside your writing — never in the writing. The pen stays yours.

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