Write the story. Keep the world it comes from.
One workspace, three columns: what you are working through on the left, the page in the middle, and everything that page mentions on the right. A novel, a serial, a world, a campaign - the same three columns, holding whatever you keep.
Departure from Halden
The gate of Halden opened the way it always did, with a groan that carried across the toll road and out over the frozen marsh.
Alice counted the carts ahead of her and decided the line would take until dusk. She had three seasons of ash in her ledger and one promise left to keep.
The gatekeeper knew her face, which was either an advantage or the end of everything, depending on which rumour had reached him first.
Everything the scene mentions that also has an entry. Open one to read or edit it.
A novel. Chapters and scenes on the left, the draft in the middle, and the people and places this scene mentions on the right. Four modes - Write, Plan, Notes, Review - and the same four wherever you are.
House Veren
Veren holds the Toll Charter, and through it the only legal road across the frozen marsh. Everything the house has, it has because of that one document.
They keep a second ledger in Halden, which is where the trouble starts: the tolls it records were never collected.
The same panel, read the other way: every scene and entry that mentions this one.
A world. The same window, no story open: entries by category on the left, the entry in the middle, and on the right every scene and entry that mentions it. Nothing was added to Codex to make this view; you switched modes.
The Ashfall Vigil
The party arrives while Brother Talon is still ringing. He will not stop for them, and he will not answer to the Warden's name.
If they say they came from Halden, he opens the gate. If they say anything about the charter, he closes it and sends a runner.
The table knows the bells mean a death, not a summons. They do not know whose.
Talon's name came from a player. Keep it; it is better than mine.
Notes stay with the scene, so what the table already knows is beside what happens next.
A campaign. Sessions where chapters were, tonight's scene in the middle, and your notes on the right, attached to the scene rather than to a file somewhere else. Prep, run, and write up in one place.
Four things worth stating before you sign in.
Install Codex on your own computer, or use the hosted version. It is the same Codex either way, with the same features, and you can move your work from one to the other whenever you like.
Accounts open by invitation while the work is young. Ask for one and you get an answer - yes, or when - rather than a place in a queue nobody describes.
Every scene, entry and note exports as a plain markdown file, in the folders you see in the app. Open the export in any editor and it still reads as your book.
The assistant is a panel you open, and it never writes into your draft until you accept an edit. Turn it off in settings and nothing else changes: Codex is a complete writing tool with the assistant off.
The handbook is open before you sign in: the keyboard shortcuts, how reading pages work, and how to run Codex yourself.
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