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What the app does, your first universe, and uploading a manuscript.

• What is Who Where When?Who Where When is a web app that keeps a novelist's story bible, checks it for continuity errors and can publish a spoiler-safe reader wiki.
• How do I create my first universe?Create a universe for your series, or open the sample, then add books, entries and a calendar. Here's what each step does.
• How do I upload my manuscript?Upload a .docx, .md or .txt file to a book and Who Where When splits it into chapters, counts appearances and suggests names to add.
• Does Who Where When work for a single novel?Yes. A standalone novel gets its own universe with one book. Everything works, though the reader wiki can only hide spoilers book by book.

Entries, facts, events, the timeline, family trees, maps and the continuity check.

• How do entries, facts and sources work?Entries are the people, places and things in your series. Facts record details about them, with dates, a source chapter and a quote.
• How do in-story dates and custom calendars work?Set your world's months and eras in Settings, then type dates like "3 Frostmoon 412" on facts and events. Here's how dates are read and ordered.
• How do events and the timeline work?Add births, battles, journeys and other events with dates, places and participants. They appear on a zoomable timeline with a lane per character.
• How do family trees and relationships work?Link entries with relationships like parent of, member of or rival of. Who Where When draws a relationship graph and family trees from them.
• How do I add maps and pins?Upload a map image of your world, drop pins on it, and link each pin to a place or other entry in your story bible.
• How does the continuity check work?Who Where When checks your bible on every change for conflicting facts, deaths, births, two places at once, ages and duplicates.

Using ChatGPT or Claude with the prompts, importing replies, and connecting your AI directly.

• How do I use ChatGPT or Claude with the prompts?Copy a prompt built from your bible, paste it into ChatGPT or Claude with a chapter, then import the reply. Here's each prompt and when to use it.
• How do I review and import an AI reply?Paste an AI reply into Import, check new entries, facts and conflicts, choose what to keep, and save it as one change you can undo.
• How do I connect Claude, ChatGPT or another AI? PROAdd https://whowherewhen.app/mcp as a custom connector in Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok or Le Chat, and your AI can read and update your story bible directly.

Co-authors, change history and undo, and the spoiler-safe reader wiki.

• How do I invite a co-author?Invite co-authors, editors or assistants by email as an Editor or Viewer. Everyone sees changes live, and History shows who changed what.
• How do History and undo work?History records every change to a universe, who made it and where it came from. Undo reverses a change without overwriting later edits.
• How do I publish a reader wiki? PROPublish a companion wiki for readers from Settings. Readers pick how far they've read and only see what's been revealed by then.

Signing in, privacy, backups and exports.

• How do I sign in to Who Where When?Who Where When has no passwords. Enter your email and open the one-time sign-in link we send you. Here's what to do if it doesn't arrive.
• How do I back up and export my story bible?Download a full JSON backup you can restore, or a Markdown folder for Obsidian. Restore replaces a universe with a backup's contents.
• Is my manuscript private?Your bible and chapters are private to you and the people you invite. Who Where When doesn't send your text to an AI unless you do.