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The default image used for all magics on Notebook.ai, but you can replace it with your own uploads.

Creating Magics on Notebook.ai

A source of magic often creates a multitude of spells, potions, and occasional trinkets.

Creating magics on Notebook.ai is easy.

To get started, just click Magics under the "Worldbuilding" header in the site sidebar. You'll be able to see or edit all of your existing magic pages and create new ones at any time. You can also customize your Magic template for all of your pages here.

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Search your magics

If you've got a lot of magics, you can quickly get around to the right one with Notebook.ai's full-text search. It searches your entire notebook for anything you wrote about that magic.

You can also filter your magics by tag, whether you've favorited that page, and which universe it's in.

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Private by default

Your ideas are valuable. Every magic you create in Notebook.ai is owned by you, completely private by default, and only accessible to you.

But of course, you also have full control over that privacy and can share any magic page you want, however you want, whenever you want.

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Magics are a Premium page

Magic notebook pages require an active Premium subscription to create, but users on free plans can view and edit their existing magic pages at any time.

Notebook.ai is your personal worldbuilding notebook; any page you create is yours forever and you'll never lose access to any part of it for any reason — even if you downgrade to a free account in the future.

flash_on Get a head start with a detailed, customizable magic template

You can fill out as little or as much as you'd like on every new magic. You'll see progress indicators every time you edit it to show where you can make progress on and our system will intelligently generate questions for you around the site that will automatically save your answers to the proper place on your magic page.

Templates are also fully customizable across every magic in your notebook.

You can browse the default template for magics here; just click a category to see the questions it starts with.

  • Name
    What is the name of this magic?

    Description
    How would you describe this magic?

    Type of magic
    What type of magic is this magic?

    Universe
    This field allows you to link your other Notebook.ai pages to this magic.

    Tags
    This field lets you add clickable tags to organize your magics.

  • Visuals
    What do the visual effects of this magic look like?

    Effects
    What effects does this magic have?

    Aftereffects
    What visual effects persist after this magic?

  • Positive effects
    What positive effects does this magic have?

    Neutral effects
    What neutral effects does this magic have?

    Negative effects
    What negative effects does this magic have?

    Conditions
    What conditions can this magic afflict?

    Scale
    How does the power level of this magic scale?

  • Morality
    How good or bad is this magic?

    Respectability
    How respected are users of this magic?

    Element
    What element is this magic most closely aligned to?

    Deities
    This field allows you to link your other Notebook.ai pages to this magic.

  • Resource costs
    What resource costs are required to use this magic?

    Materials required
    What materials are required to use this magic?

    Skills required
    What skills are required to use this magic?

    Limitations
    What limitations does this magic have? What can't it do?

    Education
    What needs to be learned before this magic can be used?

  • Notes
    Write as little or as much as you want!

    Private notes
    Write as little or as much as you want! Private notes are always visible to only you, even if content is made public and shared.

More magic features

Magics require an active Premium subscription to create. Once you've created a page, it's yours forever! The following features are always enabled for all Magic pages to help you build the wonderful world in your head.

AVAILABLE ON ALL PAGES

photo_library Upload images to your magic

Magics and other worldbuilding pages all come with a dedicated area to upload and showcase your own uploaded images.

The images you upload replace any default images the site uses, which makes your notebook truly feel yours when you see all of your fancy magics around the site!

50MB

free for all users

+10GB

for Premium subscribers

AVAILABLE ON ALL PAGES

vpn_lock Focus on magics from a single universe

Building entire fictional worlds is hard! And it gets even harder when you've got ideas that span multiple universes or worlds.

To help you focus on what's relevant, Notebook.ai lets you focus on a single universe at a time. This hides your notebook pages from all other universes and lets you work on your world without distractions.

To focus on a single universe, simply select it from the top-left dropdown of any page.

AVAILABLE ON ALL PAGES

group_add Invite others to collaborate

Notebook.ai lets you add an unlimited number of collaborators to your universes for free. Each one has full access to work alongside you on your magics and other pages within that universe.

If you have a Premium subscription active, your collaborators can also share all of your Premium perks while working in your universe, too!

AVAILABLE ON ALL PAGES

brightness_4 Work in light or dark mode

Protect your eyes at night by choosing between light and dark themes at the click of a button, available across the entire website.

An example of a writing prompt generated for user's fictional race

AVAILABLE ON ALL PAGES

flash_on Craft your perfect magic piece by piece with personalized, smart writing prompts

Once you've started creating a magic or two, you'll start noticing our worldbuilding tool asking you personalized questions about those magics around the site.

Whenever you write an answer to any of these prompts, they'll automatically be saved to the relevant field on your magic notebook page and you won't be asked the same question again.

favorite We're here to stay.

Notebook.ai has been around since 2016 and we're still growing. We're dedicated to making the best writing tool for authors out there — so we'll be around (and improving) for a very long time. Your magics are safe with us!

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When you're ready to start writing, Notebook.ai makes it easy to take the world you've built and keep it at your fingertips, ready to reference any time you need it.

Every account on Notebook.ai also includes unlimited document storage using our integrated editor that's full of smart features. You can link your magics and other worldbuilding pages to individual documents to see them directly inside the editor — making it easy to reference small details without losing momentum.

If you prefer to use another word processor, our page search makes it easy to look up any information you need about your world, letting you focus on the big picture story instead of fretting over the small details.

description Take your story to the next level with more integrated tools

Our other integrated tools allow you to build upon the foundation you lay from a world of magics and other notebook pages. Each feature offers new ways to enrich your world and write better stories within them.

  • timeline Start working on a timeline and add your magics to the individual scenes that are relevant to them.
  • description Create unlimited documents and link your magics to them.
  • auto_stories Group your notebook pages together in new ways by adding them to Collections.
  • ballot Share your magics to your followers or to the world to get comments and feedback.
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