Plotlines

A plotline is a thread running through your book — the main quest, a romance, a slow-burning betrayal. In your Book Wiki, a plotline is a minimal thread: an ordered list of the scenes that carry it, so you can see how the thread moves and jump along it.

Unlike characters and locations, a plotline is not something that "appears" in a scene. A scene belongs to a plotline. That difference is why plotlines use ordered membership rather than appearances.

Open plotlines from the Book Wiki tool in the activity bar.

The card

A plotline shares the wiki spine — name, aliases, summary, description, tags, notes — so you can describe the thread however you like and filter it by tag along with everything else. See Search and tags.

On top of the spine, a plotline tracks a status:

Status	Meaning
Introduced	The thread has begun.
Developed	It is being carried forward.
Paused	Set aside for now.
Resolved	The thread has closed.

Building a thread

You build a plotline by adding scenes to it, in order.

Add a scene to one or more plotlines — a scene can belong to several threads at once.
Order the scenes so the membership reflects how the thread unfolds across the book.
See how it moves by reading the ordered list of scenes on the card.
Jump between scenes in the thread to follow it from beat to beat.

Because membership is ordered, the plotline reads as a sequence: you can walk the revenge thread scene by scene without it being tangled up with where its characters merely appear.

Membership vs. appearance

These are two different links, and keeping them apart keeps the wiki honest:

A plotline uses ordered membership — scenes are steps in a thread.
A character or location uses an appearance — it is present in a scene. See Characters and locations.

A character can appear in a scene that belongs to a plotline without the two being the same relationship.

Safe and recoverable

Plotline cards are project files: they travel with the project and are backed up. Deleting one sends it to Trash — it leaves lists, search, export, and AI context, and links to it never dangle. Restore brings it back. See Safety and recovery.