Introduction
Write your novel and build its world in one place. Scenes, characters and timeline stay linked, co-writers join you live, and canon stays straight.
Plotra keeps your manuscript and the world behind it in one linked project, so you stop hunting through docs, spreadsheets and group chats for a detail, and catch the contradictions before a reader does. Think of Obsidian, built for stories, with more than one person in it: scenes, characters, places, a timeline and a plot grid, written together live. Plotra tracks what is canon, who knows which secret, and what readers know as of each book.
The quickest way to see it is to use it. Sign up, then start with a blank page or open a sample project and look around.
Start writing for freeEvery feature is on the Free plan. No card needed.
The hosted version has a Free plan with every feature, and a Pro plan at $10 a month for the whole workspace, not per person, with more room, more collaborators and hosted AI. Nothing to install and no server to look after. See Plans and billing.
Where to start
Guide
Using Plotra: the binder, links, views, working together, canon and the spoiler horizon.
Modules
The tools you switch on per project: world bible, releases, scripts, publishing and the rest.
Plans and billing
What is on Free, what Pro adds, and when it is worth moving up.
Deploying
How the hosted version is put together, service by service.
Self-hosting
For people who would rather run the servers themselves.
What you get
- Everything about your story, one click away. Notes link to each other with
[[wiki-links]], so the scene you're in leads to every character, place and secret it mentions. Backlinks, embeds, typed properties, tags and a graph come with that. See Links and backlinks. - A new angle when you're stuck. The same project as prose, a timeline, a storyboard, a corkboard, a plot grid, an outline or a relationship map, side by side in split panes. See Views.
- One draft, not five copies of it. Live co-editing with cursors, comments, suggestions and version history. Share a project by email with a viewer, a commenter or an editor. See Working together.
- A world that doesn't contradict itself. A canon status on every note, releases, and a spoiler horizon that shows the world as your audience knows it at a given book or session. Plus who-knows-what tracking and continuity checks that run on plain rules. See Canon and the spoiler horizon.
Who it is for
Plotra has eleven project types. Two lead the list:
- Novel and series writers who build worlds: one tool for the manuscript and the world behind it.
- Tabletop game masters: a wiki built at the spoiler horizon is the player-safe version of a campaign.
Script formats (screenplay, stage, comic, audio) and the production, interactive, localization and research modules are available to everyone.
Ask an AI about Plotra
These docs are written to be read by an assistant as well as by you.
- On any page, the Open menu under the title sends that page to ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor or Scira with a question ready to ask. Copy Markdown copies the page so you can paste it into any other assistant.
- For the whole docs, give your assistant
/llms-full.txt: every page in one plain-text file./llms.txtis the index, with a link to each page. - Any page as Markdown: add
.mdto its address.
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