Creating Universes on Notebook.ai
Track multiple stories at once by organizing your ideas into just the universe they belong in.
Creating universes on Notebook.ai is easy.
To get started, just click Universes under the "Worldbuilding" header in the site sidebar. You'll be able to see or edit all of your existing universe pages and create new ones at any time. You can also customize your Universe template for all of your pages here.
Search your universes
If you've got a lot of universes, 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 universe.
You can also filter your universes using tags, favorites, and more!
Private by default
Your ideas are valuable. Every universe 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 universe page you want, however you want, whenever you want.
Universes are free to create
Free users can create up to five universes on Notebook.ai.
Notebook.ai's free tier was designed to be more than enough for most creators, with Premium pages serving as a way for more advanced worldbuilders to further flesh out their rich worlds in even more detail.
language Get a head start with a detailed, customizable universe template
You can fill out as little or as much as you'd like on every new universe. 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 universe page.
Templates are also fully customizable across every universe in your notebook.
You can browse the default template for universes here; just click a category to see the questions it starts with.
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NameWhat is this universe's name?
DescriptionHow would you describe this universe?
GenreWhat genre best describes this universe?
TagsThis field lets you add clickable tags to organize your universes.
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OriginHow did this universe originate?
HistoryWhat is this universe's history?
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Laws of PhysicsWhat are the laws of physics like in this universe?
Magic SystemWhat is the magic system like in this universe?
TechnologyWhat is the level of technology like in this universe?
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InspirationWhat were your major sources of inspiration for this universe?
NotesWrite as little or as much as you want!
Private NotesWrite as little or as much as you want!
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Universes allow you to invite others to help contribute on your fictional worlds.
More universe features
Universes are available to create for free. Once you've created a page, it's yours forever! The following features are always enabled for all Universe pages to help you build the wonderful world in your head.
AVAILABLE ON ALL PAGES
photo_library Upload images to your universe
Universes 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 universes around the site!
50MB
free for all users
+10GB
for Premium subscribers
AVAILABLE ON ALL PAGES
vpn_lock Focus on pages 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 universes 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.
AVAILABLE ON ALL PAGES
language Craft your perfect universe piece by piece with personalized, smart writing prompts
Once you've started creating a universe or two, you'll start noticing our worldbuilding tool asking you personalized questions about those universes around the site.
Whenever you write an answer to any of these prompts, they'll automatically be saved to the relevant field on your universe notebook page and you won't be asked the same question again.
favorite We're here to stay.
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total Universes created
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Universes recently created
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language Write smarter with your world at your fingertips.
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 universes 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 universes 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 universes to the individual scenes that are relevant to them.
- description Create unlimited documents and link your universes to them.
- auto_stories Group your notebook pages together in new ways by adding them to Collections.
- ballot Share your universes to your followers or to the world to get comments and feedback.
- language See in a single place all the timelines, documents, collections, and other pages your universe is linked to.
Universes are just one of the 29 types of worldbuilding pages available on Notebook.ai.
Create your first universe today!