Your world, your machine. A local-first desktop tool for game writers and designers who want structured worldbuilding without cloud lock-in. Plain markdown you own forever.
NWF treats every entity as structured data with typed properties and a relationship graph. Not documents in a binder. Not wiki pages behind a login wall.
All data lives on your machine. No cloud accounts, no subscriptions, no telemetry. Your world is yours. Open any folder as a vault and start building immediately.
Every entity is a plain .md file with YAML frontmatter. Portable, version-controllable, readable by any text editor. You're never locked in. Put your worlds in Git, sync them with Dropbox, or open them in VS Code.
A WYSIWYG rich text editor with a data-first property header. Every entity displays a high-density metadata grid alongside a Wikipedia-style thumbnail. Functional, not decorative. Add custom fields with typed popovers: Text, Number, Select, Date, or Relationship.
Type [[ to link any entity to any other. Autocomplete finds entities instantly. Click to navigate. Backlinks are tracked automatically and rendered as connection chips on each entity. Your world becomes a navigable web of references.
Visualize your entire world as an interactive node graph. Entities are color-coded by type — characters, locations, items, notes. Click to navigate. See clusters, connections, and orphaned entities at a glance.
First-class support for Characters, Locations, Items, and Notes. Each type has dedicated structured fields — faction, status, and aliases for characters; region and population for locations; rarity and value for items. Your schema adapts to your world.
Split your workspace into side-by-side editor panes. Drag tabs between panes. Reference one entity while editing another.
Cmd+K to instantly find and open any entity across your vault. Fuzzy search across thousands of indexed entries.
Chronological visualization for entities with timeline data. Plot story arcs and historical events across your world.
Premium dark mode with glassy design system. Backdrop-blur popovers, borderless inputs, zinc palette. Full light theme too.
Full vault management from within the app. Create folders, move files, rename entities with visual drag indicators and ghost previews.
Import images from anywhere on your machine. Assets are copied into the vault, keeping everything portable and self-contained.
Add any field to any entity. Choose from Text, Number, Select, Date, or Relationship types. Rename or delete properties inline.
Right sidebar shows all files linking to the current entity plus a heading outline for jump-to-section navigation.
NWF is offline, private, and built specifically for narrative structure — not generic note-taking behind a login wall.
NWF treats entities as structured data with typed properties and a relationship graph, not just documents in a binder.
No cloud dependency, no subscription, no feature-gating. Plain markdown you own forever. No account required.
NWF adds a typed entity layer, structured property editors, and a purpose-built UI for worldbuilding on top of the markdown vault concept.
Local-first worldbuilding app. No account required, no cloud dependency. Your markdown files, your vault, your machine.
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