Manifest types

Stable identifier, a UUID.

The name shown to the writer.

The file's name inside audio/, extension included.

Path under the project, normally audio/<fileName>. For a pack, the first clip.

File size in bytes.

MIME type of the stored bytes, for example audio/mpeg.

Container/codec, e.g. 'mp3' | 'wav'.

Playback length in milliseconds, when known.

ISO language the text was synthesized in.

Voice id used to synthesize (provider voice id or native engine voice name).

OS-native engine or a cloud API.

Provider that produced an api-origin asset (e.g. 'openai', 'elevenlabs').

Id of the project doc/file this audio narrates, when generated from one.

Location in the file tree (parent path + name). Set when the audio lives in the tree.

When the narration was generated. Typed Date, so it serialises as ISO-8601.

Content hash, used to tell whether the narration still matches its text.

When present, this asset is a PACK: an ordered sequence of clips played/mixed gapless. A simple asset (single file) has no segments; relativePath/fileName then point at the lone clip. For a pack they point at the first clip (compat).

Stable identifier of the clip, a UUID.

Path of the clip's bytes under the project (audio/<id>.<format>).

Clip length in milliseconds (derived once on synthesis, not re-decoded).

Container/codec the engine ACTUALLY produced for this clip. Not always what was asked for: the native engine ignores the requested format (macOS always yields m4a/AAC), so the pack's own format is derived from this rather than from the request.

Silence (ms) inserted BEFORE this clip when playing or mixing, which is how a pause is rendered.

Source text range in the annotated doc this clip was synthesized from.

Voice id used (catalog id or native engine voice name).

Emotion the clip was synthesized with, matching the ttsEmotion mark in the text.

Expressive params used, kept for incremental regeneration.

Sound tags applied to the clip, matching the ttsSoundTag nodes in the text.

Content hash (text + voice + emotion + params) for incremental regeneration.

Stable identifier, a UUID. What other elements refer to it by.

The element's name, and what the app matches against when it highlights the prose.

Which kind of element this is. The tag that decides which interface applies.

Free text description, the main body of the element.

The element's portrait image, as a fileName or relativePath into images/.

The element's banner image, as a fileName or relativePath into images/.

Tags the writer attached, used for filtering.

Colour chosen for the element, as CSS. Also used to highlight it in the text.

When the element was created, epoch milliseconds.

When the element last changed, epoch milliseconds.

The writer's own notes about the element, kept apart from description.

Fields the writer added to this element alone. See .

Whether the writer pinned it to the top of the list.

The same value as the data-bookmark-id of the node in the document.

The entry whose text holds the anchor.

Quick access slot, 0 to 9. Absent means a bookmark with no shortcut.

What the writer called it. Absent means the panel shows a generated label.

A cache of where the node is, refreshed when the file is saved. It orders the panel and makes next and previous work without opening files. The document node is always the truth. Undefined means not reconciled yet. Null means reconciled and no node was found, so the bookmark is unresolved: it is shown marked as such and never deleted on its own.

Epoch milliseconds. Required by the most-recent-wins merge in sync.

Soft delete. Without it the sync merge resurrects deleted bookmarks, because merging never removes: an item present on only one side is kept.

Which row or column it labels, zero based.

What it says.

Colour of the header, as CSS.

Stable identifier of the cell.

What the cell holds, one of the values.

Id of the thing the cell stands for, when its type points at one.

Where the cell sits on the board, zero based.

The cell's text.

Project asset (tintero-image://<key>) or a plain remote URL typed by the user.

AudioAsset.id in Project.audioAssets. Audio is always a project asset, never a remote URL.

PdfAsset.id in Project.pdfAssets.

Colour of the cell, as CSS.

For a checkbox cell, whether it is ticked.

A heading for the cell.

Links from this cell to elsewhere in the project. See .

Tags on the cell, used for filtering the board.

The cell's status, matching one of the project's configured statuses.

Notes pinned inside the cell. See .

Stable identifier, a UUID.

What the writer called this board.

How many rows the board has.

How many columns the board has.

The cells that hold something. Empty squares are simply absent.

When the board was created, epoch milliseconds.

When the board last changed, epoch milliseconds.

Labels down the side of the board.

Labels across the top of the board.

Whether headers are shown at all. The two per-axis flags below override it.

Whether the column headers are shown. Undefined falls back to showHeaders.

Whether the row headers are shown. Undefined falls back to showHeaders.

Whether the first column stays put while the board scrolls sideways.

When set, the only cell types this board allows.

Which kind of board it is: freeform, or shaped like a plot grid.

Stable identifier of the reference itself, not of what it points at.

Which array of the project to look targetId up in.

Id of the chapter, doc, character or worldbuilding element being pointed at.

Id of the this stands for.

The character's name.

Always character, which is what puts it in the element union.

Stable identifier, a UUID. Fixed once the character exists.

The name the character is known by, and what the app matches against in the prose.

Given name, when the writer split the name up.

Family name, when the writer split the name up.

The character's pronouns, as the writer wrote them.

Other names they go by, which are also matched against the prose.

The old two-part description. Superseded by physicalDescription and psychologicalDescription and kept only so older projects still read. New code writes the two flat fields.

What the character looks like, as one block of text.

The character's portrait, as a fileName or relativePath into images/.

The character's banner image, as a fileName or relativePath into images/.

Where the character sits in the characters panel's own folder tree.

Sort order within its folder, ascending.

What the character is like inside, as one block of text.

Colour used for the character, as CSS. Also what highlights them in the text.

Gender, as free text rather than a fixed set.

Age, as text, since a world may not count years the way ours does.

When they were born, in the world's own calendar, so free text.

Where they were born, as text. Migrated into worldbuilding.locations as well.

Their trade, as a plain name. Superseded by worldbuilding.occupations, which holds ids, and still written alongside it.

Their species, as a plain name. Superseded by worldbuilding.species.

Their faction, as a plain name. Superseded by worldbuilding.factions.

Every tie between this character and the world. See .

What they are like, as short pieces of text.

What they want, as text.

What they are afraid of, as text.

Where they come from, as one block of text.

The writer's own notes about them, kept apart from the description.

Tags the writer attached, used for filtering.

When the character was created, epoch milliseconds. Fixed once set.

When the character last changed, epoch milliseconds.

Ties to other characters. See .

Other versions of this character. See .

Stable identifier of the variant within its character.

What the writer calls this version.

What makes it different, in the writer's words.

Where it sits in the list of variants, ascending.

The fields that differ from the character. Everything absent is inherited unchanged.

When the variant was created, epoch milliseconds.

When the variant last changed, epoch milliseconds.

Ids of the elements this character belongs to.

Ids of the elements they belong to.

Ids of the elements they hold.

Ids of the elements tied to them.

Ids of the elements they follow.

Ids of the elements they can use.

Ids of the elements they speak.

Ids of the elements they use.

Ids of the groups they belong to.

Ids of the groups they lead.

Ids of the groups they founded.

Ids of the groups they used to belong to.

Ids of the groups they used to lead.

Ids of the deities they follow.

Ids of the deities they act for.

Ids of the deities they serve as clergy.

Ids of the deities that oppose them.

Ids of the deities that have blessed them.

Ids of the deities that have cursed them.

Ids of the deities they used to follow.

Ids of the creatures they have tamed.

Ids of the creatures they hunt.

Ids of the creatures they protect.

Ids of the creatures they have met.

Ids of the creatures that travel with them.

Ids of the creatures bound to them.

Ids of the items they own.

Ids of the items they made.

Ids of the items they found.

Ids of the items they guard.

Ids of the items they used to own.

Ids of the items they are looking for.

Ids of the events they took part in.

Ids of the events they were central to.

Ids of the events they brought about.

Ids of the events they saw.

Ids of the events done to them.

Ids of the events they came out of well.

Stable identifier, a UUID.

What the writer called the collection.

When the collection was created, epoch milliseconds.

When the collection last changed, epoch milliseconds.

Its members, in the order the writer arranged them.

Id of the or .

Which of the two it is, since ids alone do not say.

Always creature. The tag that says which interface applies to this element.

What sort of creature it is.

How it acts towards people.

How much it understands.

How long it lives, as text.

Where it lives, as text.

Ids of the elements where it lives.

What it eats.

How often it is met, extinct included.

How it looks, as text.

What it can do, as text.

What it cannot stand, as text.

Roughly how big it is.

Whether it can be tamed at all.

What is unusual about it, as text.

How each species in the project regards it.

Where it has been seen, as text.

Ids of the elements where it has been seen.

What it means to the people of the world, as one block of text.

Typical size, as text, alongside the coarse size band.

How they live together, as one block of text.

Who has met it, as text.

Who has tamed it, as text.

Who hunts it, as text.

Who protects it, as text.

Stable identifier, and the key the value is stored under in customFields.

Internal name of the field.

What the writer sees beside the input.

What kind of input it is, which decides what the stored value looks like.

Grey text shown in the empty input.

Help text shown under the input.

What a new element starts with in this field.

Rules the value is checked against.

For a relationship field, what it may point at.

Where the field sits in the form, ascending.

Whether the field has to be filled in.

Shortest accepted value.

Longest accepted value.

A regular expression the value has to match, as a string.

Not one of the built-in kinds. Holds the template's own type string.

Id of the this element follows.

The template's name, copied here so the element reads on its own.

The template's icon, copied here.

The template's colour, copied here.

The values, keyed by the id of the in the template.

Stable identifier, and what an element's customType points at.

What the writer called this kind of element.

What it is for, in the writer's words.

Icon shown for elements of this kind.

Colour used for elements of this kind, as CSS.

The fields elements of this kind have. See .

When the template was created, epoch milliseconds.

When the template last changed, epoch milliseconds.

Archived templates stay in the file so their elements keep their labels.

Tags on the template itself, not on its elements.

Bumped when the field list changes, so older elements can be recognised as older.

Always deity. The tag that says which interface applies to this element.

What sort of divine being it is.

What it is the god of, as text.

Where it stands morally.

How much power it has, relative to the rest of the pantheon.

What it looks like when it appears, as one block of text.

Its symbols, as text.

The dates in its calendar that matter.

Its followers, as text.

Ids of the elements that follow it.

Its clergy, as text.

Ids of the elements that serve as its clergy.

Its temples, as text.

Ids of the elements that are its temples.

Objects tied to it, as text.

Ids of the elements tied to it.

Who it opposes, as text.

Who stands with it, as text.

Id of the deity it descends from, which is how a pantheon's family tree is built.

Ids of the deities that descend from it.

Who worships it, as text.

Ids of the elements that worship it.

Ids of the elements it belongs to.

The stories told about it, as text.

What is said to it, as text.

What is given to it, as text.

How it shows itself in the world, as text.

How involved it is in mortal affairs.

What it demands of its followers, as text.

Who acts in its name, as text.

Ids of the deities it is at odds with, as picked from the project.

Ids of the deities it is allied with, as picked from the project.

Stable identifier of the field within its element.

What the writer called it.

What they put in it, always as text.

Whether it is shown as a single line or a box.

Always faction. The tag that says which interface applies to this element.

What kind of faction it is.

What it believes, as text.

What it is trying to achieve, as text.

How it is organised internally.

What it holds, as text.

What it can draw on, as text.

Ids of the factions it is allied with.

Ids of the factions it is at odds with.

Ids of the characters or elements who lead it.

Ids of the characters or elements who belong to it.

When it was founded, in the world's own calendar, so free text.

Whether it still exists.

How far its reach goes.

Stable identifier, a UUID.

Where the saved text is: files/<location>.json, alongside live content.

What the writer called this version, or the automatic label it was given.

When the version was taken, epoch milliseconds.

The writing mode the text was in when it was saved.

Stable identifier, a UUID.

What the writer called this flowmap.

Its nodes. Position is on the node itself, so the order here means nothing.

The arrows between them.

When the flowmap was created, epoch milliseconds.

When the flowmap last changed, epoch milliseconds.

Stable identifier of the connection.

Id of the the arrow leaves.

Id of the the arrow reaches.

What the arrow looks like, and which way it points.

Text drawn on the arrow.

Where on the source node's edge the arrow starts.

Where on the target node's edge the arrow lands.

Colour of the arrow, as CSS.

Stable identifier, and what a connection's fromNodeId and toNodeId point at.

The text in the node.

Horizontal position on the canvas, in pixels.

Vertical position on the canvas, in pixels.

What shape the node is drawn as. Not a fixed set: a custom string is allowed.

Colour of the node, as CSS.

A small label above the node's text ("DECISION", "ACT II"). The writer types it. It sits where the shape's type name used to be drawn, which told nobody anything. Without it the node shows only label.

Padding inside the node, in pixels, chosen by hand. Without it the shape's own padding applies, set in SCSS: every shape needs its own, since a circle has to keep its text off the curve, but the value that suits three words smothers one.

Longer text kept with the node and shown when it is opened.

Colour key for a note node: yellow, green and the rest, rather than CSS.

Id of the project document tied to this node.

Id of the project character tied to this node.

Id of the project worldbuilding element tied to this node.

For a todo-list node, its items.

Node width in pixels, when the writer resized it.

Node height in pixels, when the writer resized it.

Anything a node type keeps that has no field of its own. Shape depends on type.

Always group. The tag that says which interface applies to this element.

What sort of group it is.

How many belong to it.

Id of the it sits under, when it is part of a larger body.

How it is led, as one block of text.

Ids of the elements that lead it.

Ids of the elements that belong to it.

What it takes to join, as text.

What members get out of it, as text.

What it always does, as text.

Where it meets, as text.

Id of the where it meets.

When it was founded, in the world's own calendar, so free text.

Whether it still exists, and whether anyone knows.

How far its reach goes.

What it is trying to achieve, as text.

What it does together, as text.

How rank works inside it, as one block of text.

What it holds, as text.

Ids of the elements it holds.

What it can draw on, as text.

Ids of the groups it is allied with.

Ids of the groups it is at odds with.

What it keeps quiet, as text.

How somebody gets in, as one block of text.

How the world at large regards it.

Ids of the elements it is connected to.

Where it is based, as text.

Stable identifier, a UUID.

The name shown to the writer, which is not the file name on disk.

The file's name inside images/, extension included.

Path under the project, normally images/<fileName>. See imageStorageKey.

File size in bytes.

MIME type of the stored bytes, for example image/png.

Pixel width, when it was measured.

Pixel height, when it was measured.

When the image was added. Typed Date, which means JSON.stringify writes it as an ISO-8601 string rather than the epoch milliseconds used almost everywhere else.

Hash of the bytes, used to spot a real change.

When the image metadata last changed, epoch milliseconds.

Position in the file tree, the parent's path plus the name, mirroring AudioAsset.treePath. Undefined means the image has no place of its own and shows up in the fixed Images folder.

Stable identifier of the note within its cell.

What the note is, which decides which of the fields below carry anything.

The note's text.

A heading for the note.

Colour of the note, as CSS.

For a checkbox note, whether it is ticked.

Project asset (tintero-image://<key>) or a plain remote URL typed by the user.

AudioAsset.id in Project.audioAssets. Audio is always a project asset, never a remote URL.

PdfAsset.id in Project.pdfAssets.

Always item. The tag that says which interface applies to this element.

What sort of object it is.

How rare it is, cursed included, since that is how the writer thinks of it.

What it is worth, as text, since worlds do not agree on currency.

What it does, as text.

What it does that is not ordinary, as text.

Where it came from, as one block of text.

Where it is now, as text.

Id of the it is in now.

Who has it now, as text.

Id of the element that has it now.

Who had it before, as text.

Ids of the elements that had it before.

What state it is in.

What it is made of, as text.

What it weighs, as text.

How big it is, as text.

What it takes to use it, as text.

What happens when it is used, as text.

What it cannot do, as text.

What it means to the people of the world, as one block of text.

Things that happened to it, written inline rather than linked to event elements.

Ids of the items connected to it.

Ids of the elements connected to it.

Ids of the elements connected to it.

Who made it, as text.

Who found it, as text.

Always language. The tag that says which interface applies to this element.

Who speaks it, as text.

How many speakers it has.

How it is written down, as text.

The family it belongs to, as text.

Its dialects, as text.

A small phrasebook the writer keeps with the language.

What the language means to the people who speak it, as one block of text.

Whether it is still in use.

Nearby languages, as text.

Always location. The tag that says which interface applies to this element.

What scale of place it is.

Id of the location this one sits inside, which is how the place hierarchy is built.

The climate, as text.

Terrain types, as words the writer typed.

How many people live there.

How the place is governed, as text.

Ids of the characters or elements who rule it.

Things worth mentioning about the place, as text.

What the place lives on, as text.

How it is defended, as text.

What threatens it, as text.

The place's history, as one block of text.

Notes on its culture, as one block of text.

Ids of the elements spoken there.

What they use for money, as text.

Things that happened here, written inline rather than linked to event elements.

Always magicSystem. The tag that says which interface applies to this element.

Where the power comes from, as one block of text.

What it cannot do, as text.

What using it costs, as text.

Who can use it, as text.

The traditions within the system, written inline.

Objects tied to the system, as text.

What is off limits, as text.

How the world at large treats it.

How somebody comes to be able to use it.

Stable identifier, a UUID.

The chapter this note is pinned to, or null for a note that belongs to the project.

The note's colour, which is also what the writer sorts and filters them by.

Where the note's text is: files/<location>.json.

The passage the note was attached to, kept so the note survives the text moving.

SHA-256 of the note's content file, used by sync.

When the note last changed, epoch milliseconds.

Always occupation. The tag that says which interface applies to this element.

What sort of work it is.

What it takes to do the job, as text.

What the people who do it tend to be like, as text.

Where it puts a person socially.

What it pays, as text.

What the work is like, as one block of text.

What training it needs, as one block of text.

Where the job leads, as text.

Nearby trades, as text.

Who tends to employ them, as text.

Which species tend to do it, as text.

Stable identifier, a UUID.

The name shown to the writer.

The file's name inside pdfs/, extension included.

Path under the project, normally pdfs/<fileName>.

File size in bytes.

MIME type of the stored bytes, in practice application/pdf.

Page count, when known. Filled in lazily the first time the PDF is rendered.

When the PDF was attached. Typed Date, so it serialises as an ISO-8601 string.

Hash of the bytes, used to spot a real change.

Position in the file tree, the parent's path plus the name, mirroring AudioAsset.treePath. Undefined means the PDF shows up in the fixed PDFs folder.

Stable identifier, a UUID.

What the writer called this grid.

Its columns, in the order they are shown.

How many rows the grid has. Cells beyond this are not shown.

The cells that hold something. Empty ones are simply absent.

When the grid was created, epoch milliseconds.

When the grid last changed, epoch milliseconds.

Banners across whole rows. Absent in grids made before they existed.

Stable identifier of the cell.

What the cell holds: nothing yet, a chapter, or a note.

Id of the the cell sits in.

Which row the cell sits in, zero based.

Id of the chapter the cell stands for, when its type is chapter.

The cell's text.

Colour of the cell, as CSS.

Stable identifier, and what a cell's columnId points at.

What the writer called the column.

Where the column sits, left to right, ascending.

Stable identifier of the banner.

Which row it sits ABOVE, zero based. A value equal to the grid's rowCount puts it at the very bottom, under the last row.

What the banner says.

Colour of the banner, as CSS.

How tall the banner is, in pixels. Absent means the default of 34.

Stable identifier, a UUID.

The name shown in the tree.

Display title. Usually the same as name.

Where the text is: files/<location>.json.

Position in the sidebar tree, a slash separated path of names.

When the document was created, epoch milliseconds.

When the document last changed, epoch milliseconds.

Saved versions. Optional here and temporary in practice, since a document picks them up mainly when live sync has to keep the server's copy of a conflict around.

Short summary of the chapter, written by the writer.

Longer synopsis, kept separately from summary and shown in the outline views.

Place in the reading order of the manuscript, ascending. Null or undefined sorts last. Separate from position, which orders the tree: the two can disagree on purpose.

Saved versions of this chapter. Each one keeps its own text under files/.

Character ids the writer took off the detected list for this chapter.

Character ids the writer added to the detected list for this chapter.

The character ids that end up counted as appearing here, after both manual lists.

Editorial status, matching one of the project's configured statuses.

Role in the exported book (a BookRole). Null or undefined means an ordinary chapter.

False takes the chapter out of the reading order without deleting it.

Scenes marked inside the chapter's text, mirroring its scene nodes.

Stable identifier, a UUID. What every other part of the project refers to it by.

The name shown in the tree, and the one the writer edits when they rename it.

Display title. Usually the same as name.

Where the text is: files/<location>.json, holding ProseMirror JSON. In practice this holds the same value as id, but it is the field to follow rather than the id, since nothing guarantees they stay equal.

Position in the sidebar tree as a slash separated path of names, built from the parent's path plus this entry's name. A node at the root is just its own name. The fixed panels prefix theirs with *characters* or *worldbuilding*.

When the entry was created, epoch milliseconds.

When the entry or its text last changed, epoch milliseconds.

The trail of editorial statuses this entry has been through, newest last.

Ids of other entries linked from this one.

SHA-256 of the content file, used by sync to tell a real change from a rewrite.

Colour chosen for the tree row, as CSS. Undefined means the theme decides.

Icon chosen for the tree row. Undefined means the default for the entry type.

Cached word count of the content file. A cache, so it can lag behind the text.

Keywords the writer attached to the entry.

Metadata fields the writer defined and filled in themselves.

Metadata the app writes about the entry, session and writing metrics among it. Never editable by the writer, unlike customMetadata. See system-metadata.util.ts.

Which editor this entry opens in: prose, screenplay or theatre.

Sort order among its siblings in the tree.

Stable identifier, a UUID.

The folder's name, as shown in the tree.

Its own path in the tree, which every entry inside it is prefixed with.

Colour chosen for the tree row, as CSS.

Icon chosen for the tree row.

When the folder last changed, epoch milliseconds.

Sort order among its siblings.

Id of the on the other end.

What this character is to them, in the writer's own words: "brother", "rival".

The detail behind the tie.

Whether the tie also holds in the other direction.

What the other character is to this one, when the tie runs both ways.

Which element types can be picked, by their type tag.

Whether more than one can be picked.

Always religion. The tag that says which interface applies to this element.

Ids of the elements it worships.

What it holds to be true, as text.

What its followers do, as text.

Its scriptures, as text.

Its ranks of clergy, written inline rather than as elements of their own.

Ids of the elements that serve as its temples.

The dates in its calendar that matter.

How many follow it.

How far its reach goes.

Where it stands with the other faiths in the project.

Stable identifier, matching the sceneId attribute of the node in the text.

What the writer called the scene. Absent means it is shown by its position.

The character whose point of view the scene is written from, or null for none.

Ids of the characters who appear in the scene.

Ids of the worldbuilding elements that appear in the scene.

What kind of scene it is, which is also what colours it in the editor.

The worldbuilding location the scene happens in, or null for none.

When the scene was created, epoch milliseconds.

When the scene last changed, epoch milliseconds.

Cached start position of the scene node in the document. The node is the truth.

Cached end position of the scene node in the document. The node is the truth.

The writer's notes about the scene, as plain text.

Always species. The tag that says which interface applies to this element.

How they look, as text.

What they can do, as text.

How long they live, as text.

Where they come from, as text.

Their culture, as one block of text.

Ids of the elements they speak.

What they eat.

Typical height, as text, since worlds do not agree on units.

How they organise themselves, as one block of text.

Ids of the elements common among them.

Ids of the species they are allied with.

Ids of the species they are neutral towards.

Ids of the species they are hostile to.

The status it moved to, matching one of the project's configured statuses.

When it moved, epoch milliseconds.

Always technology. The tag that says which interface applies to this element.

Roughly what era it belongs to.

What it is for.

What it does, as one block of text.

Who made it, as text.

Who uses it, as text.

How rare it is.

What it needs to work, as text.

What it does that nobody intended, as text.

Nearby technologies, as text.

What goes before the number: "Year", "Day", "Chapter". Empty means just the number.

The value of the first column.

How much each column adds.

Stable identifier of the block.

What the block stands for. Absent means document, which is what every block created before this field existed is, so nothing had to be migrated.

Id of the manuscript entry. Required when kind is document.

Id of the inside that entry, when the block is one scene rather than all of it.

Id of a worldbuilding element of type event. Required when kind is event. Half the structure of a novel is things that happen and are written in no chapter. The event already exists in the project, with its date and duration, and this is what lets it be placed on the line.

Id of a timeline that drills into this block.

Which column the block starts at.

How many columns it covers.

Colour of the block, as CSS.

Id of the project character tied to this block.

Id of the project worldbuilding element tied to this block.

Stable identifier, a UUID.

What the writer called this timeline.

Id of the timeline this one hangs off, when a block on that one drills into this.

The lanes, top to bottom.

Milestones of the whole story. A first turning point or a climax does not belong to one strand, so its line crosses every lane. The per-lane still exist for marking something inside one lane, which is now the exception rather than the rule.

Named stretches of the axis: acts, parts, seasons, whatever the writer decides. They turn a bare grid into something readable without forcing a column to be a date.

How the axis is labelled. Absent means columns numbered from 1, which is what timelines had before this existed. These are not real dates: the writer picks the metric ("year 8123 to 9123", "day 1 to 40", "session 1 to 12"), which is why a starting value and a step are all it takes.

Notes that have not been put on a lane yet.

Column width in pixels, when the writer set one.

When the timeline was created, epoch milliseconds.

When the timeline last changed, epoch milliseconds.

Stable identifier of the lane.

What the writer called the lane.

Whether the lane is folded shut.

Lane height in pixels, when the writer set one.

The blocks on this lane.

Notes pinned to this lane.

Milestones that belong to this lane alone, rather than to the whole story.

Stable identifier of the milestone.

What the milestone says.

Colour of the line, as CSS.

Which column it sits at.

Stable identifier of the note.

What the note says.

Colour of the note, as CSS.

Which column it sits at.

Stable identifier of the segment.

What the writer called it.

Which column it starts at.

How many columns it covers.

Colour of the segment, as CSS.

The day this row is for, epoch milliseconds at the start of that day.

Words written that day.

The daily target in force that day, kept so past days are not rescored later.

Always event. The tag that says which interface applies to this element.

What kind of event it was.

When it happened, in the world's own calendar, so free text rather than a date.

How long it lasted, as text.

Ids of the elements where it happened.

Ids of the elements that took part in it.

What led to it, as text.

What came of it, as text.

Who mattered in it, as text rather than as ids.

Other events it connects to, as text rather than as ids.

Why it matters to the world, as one block of text.

How much of the world knows about it, which is a plot fact rather than a historical one.

Stable identifier, a UUID.

What is being counted: words, chapters, characters, streak days and so on.

Over what period it is counted.

How many of type count as meeting the goal in one cadence.

The writer's own title. When absent the interface builds one from the other fields.

When the goal was created, epoch milliseconds.

The sync clock, updated on every change. Goals written before this existed fall back to createdAt. Incremental pull spots changes by timestamp, so a goal without one is invisible to it.

Soft delete. Archived goals are kept so a sync merge does not resurrect them.

The day this row is for, epoch milliseconds at the start of that day.

Minutes written that day.