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

Creating Religions on Notebook.ai

Organizing your world's beliefs into cohesive religions can lead to a more epic world for your readers.

Creating religions on Notebook.ai is easy.

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

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Search your religions

If you've got a lot of religions, 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 religion.

You can also filter your religions 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 religion 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 religion page you want, however you want, whenever you want.

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Religions are a Premium page

Religion notebook pages require an active Premium subscription to create, but users on free plans can view and edit their existing religion 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.

brightness_7 Get a head start with a detailed, customizable religion template

You can fill out as little or as much as you'd like on every new religion. 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 religion page.

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

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

  • Name
    What is this religion's name?

    Description
    How is this religion usually described?

    Other names
    What other names is this religion known by?

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

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

  • Origin story
    How did this religion first come into existence?

    Notable figures
    This field allows you to link your other Notebook.ai pages to this religion.

    Artifacts
    This field allows you to link your other Notebook.ai pages to this religion.

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

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

    Teachings
    What values does this religion teach?

    Prophecies
    What prophecies does this religion teach?

    Places of worship
    Where does this religion worship happen?

    Worship services
    What kind of worship services are common with this religion?

    Obligations
    What kinds of obligations are required of those who practice this religion?

    Vision of paradise
    What does the this religion vision of paradise look like?

  • Initiation process
    What does the this religion initiation process entail?

    Rituals
    What rituals are common with this religion?

    Holidays
    What are the this religion holidays?

    Traditions
    What traditions are common with this religion?

  • Practicing locations
    This field allows you to link your other Notebook.ai pages to this religion.

    Practicing races
    This field allows you to link your other Notebook.ai pages to this religion.

  • 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 religion features

Religions 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 Religion pages to help you build the wonderful world in your head.

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photo_library Upload images to your religion

Religions 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 religions around the site!

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free for all users

+10GB

for Premium subscribers

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vpn_lock Focus on religions 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.

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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 religions 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!

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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

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brightness_7 Craft your perfect religion piece by piece with personalized, smart writing prompts

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

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

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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 religions 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 religions 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 religions 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 religions to the individual scenes that are relevant to them.
  • description Create unlimited documents and link your religions to them.
  • auto_stories Group your notebook pages together in new ways by adding them to Collections.
  • ballot Share your religions to your followers or to the world to get comments and feedback.
  • brightness_7 See in a single place all the timelines, documents, collections, and other pages your religion is linked to.