Narrathred: free, local, plotter-centric tool for novelists (and web serial writers)

I’m a hobby writer who’s hard Team Plotter and tends to start getting tangled about 20k words in…and Google docs got kinda shady...and also I’m a dev. So basically this was inevitable. https://narrathred.com **What is it?** A browser-based plotting and manuscript tool for novelists and web serial writers. You build your story out of characters, locations, threads and events, link them together, and see how they interact along a timeline. Then you write the manuscript in the same place, so everything stays connected and helps keeps one source of truth. * Free, no cookies, no account, no scraping or data mining possible * Your work stays in your browser, and everything works offline once loaded\* * Works on desktop and phone, and saves to your own .nthred files in iCloud Drive, Google Drive or Dropbox * Plotter-centric: connect all the things! \*After loading, and as long as you’re not using the maps or validating a calendar. **What does it do?** * **Events and timeline:** every event in one table, a calendar view, dependencies between events, and custom calendars with daylight hours. (My own novel has twin suns, nine 40-day months and 20-hour days. Narrathred handles it fine, I have regrets.) * **Characters, locations and plot threads:** each linked to the events they appear in, to help keep continuity straight across the manuscript. * **Writing:** a rich-text editor with sections, statuses, targets, comments, search, sprints, beat templates and progress tracking. * **Notebook:** notes and world-building as nested pages. @ mention a character, location, thread or another page to link things together. There’s a quick reference built from page summaries, and it’s all searchable from inside the manuscript. * **Import and export:** import a .docx or .txt. Export to Word, Markdown, plain text, RTF, EPUB, PDF or HTML. * **Tools:** see where threads, characters and locations are distributed along the timeline, map events and manuscript against story structure, easy eyeball on what's been left dangling. * **Web serials:** release cadence, buffer target and installments. * **Agent-friendly-ish:** there’s no direct AI integration, but there’s an agent API and an llms.txt, so if you use Claude in the browser or similar, it can read what’s there more easily. * **More? Probably?** Honestly, I’ve lost track. (Yes, yes, changelog, but this is a side project and logs are for the day job 😄) **Want a demo?** You can have one! Two, actually - enjoy (some of) A Christmas Carol from the start screen in either novel or web serial mode. **Feedback welcome** This is me sharing my toys, I use it and I'll keep using it, but a few other people have been interested so I'm chucking it out there in case it would help anyone else. If you do have a play, I’d love to know what’s confusing, what’s missing and what you wish it did, especially if you’re writing something tangled. Bug reports and “...what?” are as useful as feature ideas. There’s a Discord server if that’s your thing. https://narrathred.com