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Getting started

Sign in

Section titled “Sign in”
  1. Enter your email address and choose Send code.
  2. Find the one-time code in your inbox and enter it in Weave.
  3. Choose Verify.

Use Change email if the address is wrong. If a code is rejected, request a new one and use the most recent message.

Create your first project

Section titled “Create your first project”

After your first sign-in, enter a project name and choose a starting point:

  • Worldbuilding starter is recommended. It adds Character, Place, Faction, Event, and Item node types, plus Connected to, Located in, Member of, Owns, and Participates in relationship types.
  • Blank structure adds no node or relationship types.

Both options include the Gregorian project timeline calendar. The starter adds reusable types, not sample nodes, so the project contains only your own world data. Choose Create project when you are ready. Both starting points open on Entities, where you can add nodes and connect them.

A project is a separate world with its own nodes, relationships, types, Scopes, layouts, calendars, and time. Every project starts with a read-only Global Scope containing all of its nodes. Projects created later through New project use the same Worldbuilding starter and Blank structure choices.

If the account already has projects, select one from the onboarding screen. You can switch projects later from the project picker at the top of the sidebar. Existing projects open on their current workspace page.

Add a first entity

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Start on Entities:

  1. Open Entities in the sidebar.
  2. Choose Add node.
  3. Choose an existing node type, or type a new type name to create one.
  4. Enter a name and any properties the type asks for.
  5. Choose Create node.

The same node can appear in Entities, query results, the timeline, Scopes, and layouts. Those pages use shared graph data, not copies.

Connect two nodes

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Once the project has at least two nodes:

  1. Open either node from Entities.
  2. Choose Add connection.
  3. Choose From this node or To this node.
  4. Select or create an edge type, then choose the node at the other end.
  5. Fill any type properties and choose Create.

Weave calls the stored connection an edge in a few controls and a relationship in user-facing descriptions. They refer to the same thing.

Where to go next

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