Canon: What Your Book Has Decided
Canon is the set of facts your book has established as true. Proposed facts become canonical when you approve them. Canonical facts are binding on future generation. Superseded facts are preserved for history.
Why this is hard
Long manuscripts have problems that short documents do not.
Books accumulate facts. A character's eye color, a city's geography, a scientific claim, a timeline event. Without a canonical record, you cannot tell what is established truth and what was a draft idea you later abandoned.
Facts have a lifecycle. A fact proposed in chapter 3 might become canonical, get superseded by a later revelation, or conflict with something in chapter 15. You need to see not just the current state but the history of how each fact evolved.
Every extracted fact has a status: proposed, canonical, superseded, or conflicting. You approve proposed facts to make them canonical. Canonical facts are included in the context for future chapter generation. When a conflict arises, you resolve it by picking the canonical version or marking the difference as intentional. Superseded facts are preserved, not deleted.
You decide what becomes canonical. You decide how conflicts are resolved. You can see the full history of every fact. The system never promotes a fact to canonical without your approval.
What other Inkloom features interact with it
Continuity
Facts are extracted from your chapters into structured records with fact types, entity labels, confidence percentages, and source passages. Proposed facts promote to canonical with one click. Conflicts become cards. Nothing is ever silently resolved.
Context Trace
Every AI-made version in a chapter's History carries a Trace button. One click shows exactly what Inkloom knew when it created that version: the model, the prompt template and its version, the timestamp, and every context item with whether it was always included or retrieved by relevance.
Character Tracking
For fiction, Inkloom tracks characters, motivations, knowledge states, relationships, world rules, timeline events, reveals, motifs, and point of view. Each character can have up to 8 reference images for visual consistency across generated covers and illustrations. Character rename propagates across the entire project.
Open Loops
Track open loops, questions, and unresolved threads across the manuscript. Know what you set up and what you still need to pay off. The system reminds you before a loop is forgotten.
Relevant educational articles
What Is Book Continuity?
Book continuity is the consistency of facts, events, character states, timelines, and promises across an entire manuscript. It is what makes a book feel like one coherent work instead of a collection of chapters.
How to Maintain Continuity in a Novel
Maintaining continuity in a novel requires tracking character knowledge, timeline events, world rules, and open threads across hundreds of pages. Here is how to do it without losing your mind.
What Is a Manuscript Operating System?
A manuscript operating system is software that manages the evolving state of an entire book, not just the current document. It remembers what the book has established and ensures every chapter serves the same promise.
Voice Pass
Find formulaic patterns. Accept or reject each proposed change.
Give your manuscript a memory.
See how Inkloom maintains continuity across an entire manuscript, from first chapter to last.
Your book is bigger than a prompt.
Give it a memory.
Inkloom helps you plan, write, remember, check, polish, typeset, cover, and publish a coherent book from one integrated local-first environment.
$299 one-time purchase. Buy once. It is yours.