Manuscript intelligence
Turn a draft into a living Story Bible
Import a manuscript and Canonwise identifies characters, locations, organizations, items, relationships, and timeline events for your review.
AI writing that remembers your story
Write the next scene without losing track of the last fifty.
Canonwise is a novel-writing workspace that reads your manuscript, builds a reviewable Story Bible, and helps you write with the characters, timeline, and canon already in context.
Start from an idea or import an existing manuscript.
1Import or begin
2Review extracted story facts
3Write with story context
Built for long-form fiction
The assistant should remember the book, not just the prompt.
Canonwise keeps structured canon separate from draft text and AI output. You remain the person who decides what is true in the story.
Canon-aware assistant
Ask questions without losing the source
Answers distinguish approved story facts from manuscript evidence and generated suggestions, so an idea never quietly becomes canon.
Writing continuity
Continue from what actually happened
Draft the next scene with the previous scene, active characters, unresolved threads, and current story state close at hand.
Canon stays under your control
Analysis proposes. You approve.
Canonwise can suggest a new character, relationship, event, or world rule, but extracted information waits for review before becoming approved canon.
When facts conflict, the conflict is surfaced instead of silently choosing a version. Generated prose remains a draft until you apply and analyze it.
Explore all features →Your story, with its memory intact