Navigating the UI

This page covers the main areas of the MythTapestry interface so you can orient yourself quickly.

Dashboard

After logging in you land on My Worlds. From here you can:

Open any of your worlds, or pick up exactly where you left off — see Choosing a World
Create a new world
Reach your profile, AI model preferences and subscription from your account menu

Once you open a world, its Overview looks like this:

A world open in MythTapestry: the sidebar carries the world switcher and its state chips, a Jump to row, the seven views, the container library, and Manage and Settings pinned at the bottom; the main area is titled with the world's name over an eyebrow of genre, entity count and last-updated, followed by the world description, entity counts, and a list of recently edited entities

The top bar is always visible and contains:

Item	Description
MythTapestry logo	Click to return to My Worlds
Theme	Pick one of six themes: three dark (Cosmic Weaver, Sylvan Grove, Twilight Ember) and three light (Light Weaver, Verdant Dawn, Arctic Mist)
Help	Documentation opens these pages in a new tab, Discord takes you to the community, and Send Feedback reports a bug or asks for a feature
Your initials	Your account menu: who you are signed in as, Profile settings, and Sign Out

On mobile, these items are accessible from the hamburger menu.

World view

Once you enter a world, the layout changes to a sidebar + main content arrangement. The sidebar has four zones, and your library is the one that scrolls — so a world with two hundred chapters can never push your navigation off the screen.

┌─────────────────────────┐
│  Verenthia          ▾   │  ← Which world, and its state
│  All Sources · Live     │
├─────────────────────────┤
│  Jump to…      Ctrl K   │
│  ▾ VIEWS                │  ← Fold these away on a short screen
│  Overview               │  ← The seven views. Always here.
│  Entities               │
│  Graph · Timeline · …   │
├─────────────────────────┤
│  Books                  │
│    Chapter One          │  ← Your library. The only part
│    Chapter Two          │     that scrolls.
│  Campaigns              │
├─────────────────────────┤
│  Manage                 │  ← Configuration, and the way out
│  Settings               │
└─────────────────────────┘

Which world, and its state — the world switcher, plus a strip of chips saying which sources count, what point in world-time you are looking at, and whether AI is on.

The seven views — Overview, Entities, Graph, Timeline, Maps, Media, Chat. Pinned, because they are how you leave wherever the library scrolled you to.

Your library — every container type with its trees, children and scenes. This is the scrolling zone. It always keeps a minimum height, so it can never be squeezed away to a couple of rows; on a very short window the views scroll and Manage and Settings stay put.

Manage and Settings — pinned at the bottom, always one click away.

The state chips

Under the world’s name sit three chips. Their job is to answer, without you opening anything, the question what am I actually looking at?

Chip	Default	What it does
All Sources	all sources counted	Filters the world to one canon — see Canon
Live	the world as it stands now	Views the world as of any past moment — see Viewing Your World in Time
AI off	no AI features enabled	Shows which AI features are on for this world

A chip turns gold when its value is not the default. This matters more than it sounds. A world filtered to one canon and dated to the year 812 used to look exactly like an unfiltered live one — you could spend twenty minutes wondering where half your characters went. Now the sidebar says so.

Click any chip to change it. Each one opens a small popover in place.

Jump to anything

Press Ctrl K (⌘K on a Mac), or click Jump to… at the top of the views, and type.

It searches your entities, your containers and the seven views at once. Typing ash finds Ash Orcs, Ashborn and Ashenmere, each labelled with its type and shown with that type’s icon; typing graph takes you to the graph. Arrow keys move through the results, Enter goes, Escape closes.

The Jump to palette open over a dimmed world page, with 'ash' typed in the search box and eight results listed beneath it — Ash Orcs (Species), Ashborn (Language), Ashborn Wastes (Organization), Ashen Hand (Organization), Ashenmere (Location), Ashenmere (Language), Ashenmere Islanders (Species) and Korak Ashborn (Character) — with the first one highlighted

At thirty entities the sidebar tree is perfectly good. At four hundred it is not, and this is what you will end up reaching for.

World switcher

The world switcher at the top of the sidebar shows the name of your current world. Click it to:

Switch to a different world
Navigate to the worlds list to create a new world

What the AI chip tells you

The AI chip reports how many of the world’s AI features are switched on.

State	Chip reads	Meaning
All off	AI off	No AI features are enabled — the default for new worlds
Some on	AI 2/3	Some features are enabled
All on	AI on	All AI features are active

The three features it counts are:

AI-powered detection — Smart Detection switched on and set to use AI rather than local GLiNER. GLiNER alone doesn’t count: it runs on our own server and costs nothing.
Relationship suggestions — AI proposes connections between entities from your writing
Chat Widget — shows a floating chat bubble for quick AI conversations

Hover over the chip to see the count spelled out. Click it to jump straight to Smart Detection on the World Settings page, where you can change detection and relationship suggestions. The chat widget has its own Chat section further down the same page.

The seven views

Pinned above the library, in the order you are most likely to want them.

Item	Description
Overview	World summary with stats, recent activity, and quick links
Entities	Browse, search, and manage all entities (characters, locations, items, etc.)
Graph	Interactive knowledge graph showing entities and their relationships
Timeline	Multi-entity tracks view for comparing lifespans, relationships, and world events on a shared time axis (details)
Maps	Living maps that draw your places and people from the graph and move through time (details)
Media	Image gallery for your world’s visual assets
Chat	Full-page AI chatbot with session management — ask questions about your world

Your library

Each root container type gets its own collapsible section. The default types are:

Section	Purpose
Books	Novels and stories — contains chapters, which contain scenes
Campaigns	TTRPG campaigns — contains sessions, which contain segments
Encyclopedia	Knowledge domains — contains articles

Each section shows its containers as a tree. You can expand containers to see their children and content units. A + button on each container lets you quickly create new child items.

Folding a section now sticks. Close Campaigns because you are writing a novel this week, and it stays closed as you move around the app and when you come back tomorrow — it is remembered per world, so a section you fold in one world stays open in another.

On a short screen — a 13” laptop, or a browser with a lot of toolbars — the views, Manage and Settings claim their space first, and your library gets what is left. That can be four or five rows, which is not enough to work in.

Click the Views header, above Overview, to fold the seven views away. That hands their space straight to your library, and the fold is remembered until you click it again. Ctrl K still reaches every view while they are folded, so nothing becomes unreachable — and the same header works in the collapsed icon rail, as a small caret above the icons.

Nothing folds itself. The sidebar will not rearrange as you resize the window.

Manage

Eight configuration screens, behind one Manage row at the bottom of the sidebar. Click it and they fly out. While you’re on one of them, Manage stays highlighted, the way any other row marks the page you’re on.

They live behind a row rather than in the list because you will open Calendars a handful of times and your chapters a thousand — and the eight of them used to take up the same vertical space as eight chapters, in the same scroll.

The Manage row at the bottom of the sidebar, highlighted, with its flyout open beside it listing Entity Types, Relationship Types, Bulk Relationships, Content Types, Calendars, Date References, Canon, and a greyed-out Conflicts

Item	Description
Entity Types	Configure which entity types are available and their subtypes
Relationship Types	Browse and manage the relationship type catalog
Bulk Relationships	Create many relationships at once between entities
Content Types	Configure content unit types (scenes, segments, articles)
Calendars	Create and manage custom calendar systems
Date References	View all temporal references extracted from your content
Canon	Manage canon sources for multi-canon worlds (details)
Conflicts	Track contradictions and continuity issues (coming soon)

Settings

The Settings link is pinned at the bottom of the sidebar so it’s always accessible. It opens the World Settings page where you can configure:

Demo data
Writing environment (typography, colours)
Smart detection (method, timing, thresholds)
Chat widget
Economy, and Inventory & Equipment
Export & Import
Danger zone (world deletion)

Click the Collapse button at the very bottom of the sidebar to switch to icon-only mode. This gives you more room for content editing and graph exploration.

In collapsed mode:

The world switcher shows a globe icon — click to go to the worlds list
The state chips become icons, keeping their gold non-default colouring
Jump to… becomes a magnifying glass, and Ctrl K still works
All navigation items show only their icons with tooltips on hover
Your books and other library entries show their initials, so The Folding Empress reads FE; hover one for its full name
Manage becomes a wrench; its flyout still opens with every label
Settings remains accessible as a gear icon

On smaller screens, the sidebar is hidden by default. Tap the menu button (top-left) to open it as a slide-out drawer. A bottom navigation bar provides quick access to the most common pages.

Page headers

Most pages have a page header with the page title and action buttons (e.g. “Create Entity”, “Save”). Secondary actions appear to the left of the primary action.