A brief history of Notebook.ai

I’m Andrew, and those that know me know I relentlessly spend all of my time pursuing my passions in both writing and coding. This is my 8th year participating in National Novel Writing Month (and hopefully 4th year winning!), and every year I’ve itched a little more to build a tool to help creatives build the rich worlds their stories are set in. A year ago I took a huge leap and registered my first company, Indent Labs, to develop smarter writing software for authors.

Indent Labs quickly released Dactyl in January and followed up with Retort in March, two very powerful backend APIs to empower other developers to build smart writing tools. Since then, my friends and I working on Indent’s open source software have been hard at work on the next big step towards the future of writing: Notebook.ai.

Create rich characters

You know that old notebook tucked away with all your ideas over the years? Notebook.ai is kind of like that, except with a handful of benefits inherent to moving to a digital form:

Your universes are always available , from any device, at any time.

, from any device, at any time. Your ideas are secure and backed up ; they’ll always be there for you.

; they’ll always be there for you. You own 100% of your content. Notebook.ai happily stores it for you.

Rather than digging out a notebook the next time you get an idea for a character, give Notebook.ai a shot. You can jot down freeform notes or outline structured details about the new being you’re creating.

If you don’t have an idea in mind already, you can use Notebook.ai anyway. Upon creating a new character, the notebook will ask about how they look, what they believe in, what motivates them, where they came from, and a myriad of other easily-answered questions that are fun to answer and develop your characters little by little.