Worldbuilding Changes Needed

I recently came over from an outdated platform to this solution and found that the main component of Sudowrite is amazing and light years ahead of your competition, especially when I tested out several other options writing just under 100,000 words in 3 different programs.

However I am hesitant to move my current character information over. There seems to be a lack of functionality in your worldbuilding component. Even an antiquated system such as Scrivener provides more organization context within the worldbuilding format. Don’t get me wrong, comparing Sudowrite to Scrivener is similar to comparing night and day. Sudowrite is superior for writing in every way 1990’s vs 2020 technology. I would ask that some attention is given to the worldbuilding before you fall behind to another competitor as I have sampled some better worldbuilding management features from other programs.

Your worldbuilding component has a great foundation with the ability to shut off visibility in each field from the AI. Its also easy to change field names or add traits. But compared to your competition that is the extent of your superiority. Once I started adding new characters and spell skills and their tiers, I found myself scrolling endlessly down a list of names and fields. What I am looking for is an organizational process to manage both the world and the characters.

I have 2 books as old school fantasy novels and 2 books as LITRpg as their sequel. And here lies the problem, with one of my LITRpg characters. I have 18+ field boxes. 6 for current spells 6 non-visible fields for spell progression, background, behavior, family (No tie in option in sudowrite), Growth field for life altering events, field for plot exposed both visible and non visible, tie in boxes from the prequel books. So 19-20 fields?

What Sudowrite’s needs is more organization within characters and worldbuilding. The suggestions I am mentioning are because I was unable to find fixes in your help and through you tube tutorial videos which most are outdated by a year. If I could suggest a few fixes.

• Adding in filters, If I want to look up historical events or LITRpg messages that I created a worldbuilding box for. I can select the custom name in the filter and it will bring up all those option. In the fantasy books in Scrivener, I have 221 characters with less than 30 that are ongoing characters. Scrolling in the current sudowrite aspect would be difficult. There I just select a drop down arrow and I pull up the characters while I am writing. Click on that character and I have more drop down options. and so forth.

  • A multiple filtering option for LITRpg if possible. For example LITRpg, filter that category and then subcategory system messages, achievements, warnings from spell misfires for example.

• Characters need to be easier to manage. I don’t need to see a character that is part of a plot line from book 1 not appearing until book 5. Even though I am adding references to that character mentioned as I write. That character doesn’t need to be scrolled through every time I look for a supporting character. In Sudowrite in 109,000 words I currently have 14 characters that I don’t need to see for another book or 2. I have 21 worldbuilding events that are hints at future events. 11 LITRpg events, 6 cities I mentioned with characters referenced in them, 4 academies that are at this time only as references with professors who came from those schools and talks infrequently about them. These are things I don’t need to constantly fill my list and I should have a process to move them to avoid them from cluttering my field of my main story plot characters but easily accessible to add notes into as they are referenced.

  • In Squibler I had a drop down option to pull cities down, then I have buildings, people, events, misc characters (incase I need a name of someone later on) and I can drop those fields down to find who or what I am looking for add the notes and done. In Sudowrite, I have to scroll through all the characters or fields to find it. Maybe an option to put it into future events so it removes it to another field like worldbuilding, characters, outline, synopsis

• Spell management- Killer option in Sudowrite. I think Dabble and Squibler were made by the same guy as I tested them as they are very similar but Dabble had a plot management tool which is similar to Sudowrites but A lot more easier to use and build. With every character having spells in my books (for the most part) Having to scroll through the fields is painful. In dabbler I click on the plots window and then the characters, click on the character and one of the blocks or sticky notes is the the spell fields. I open it. I have a blocks with the current spells, horizontally 1-6 and below them I have a block (closed or a single sticky note) with the spells future progression. In Squibler, I click the character name, go to the spell, click the spell and it moves me from the writing window to the spell information. Then I click on the chapter I was writing and I have my information but its not always fluid in the supposed process. In Sudowrite, I open another window on PC, scroll to the spell (I have it in both character and worldbuilding because 20 fields were too much to scroll through to get that one spell information. And I open it up and get the information. When I update it in Sudowrite I update both the character and the worldbuilding spell.

  • Maybe drop down fields under the character to choose what I am looking for?