Custom Variables

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Hey,
I’m sorry if this feature is already existent/requested, but I could find anything. So here it goes:

How about having a place to insert variables for words that you use often, but which might be subject to change? For example character names in a story or names of fictional places, items etc…

I think it would be a very handy feature when making up a new story. By the way: Is there a way to implement pages with a string of code/a link like in php? Don’t really know what I would use that for, but I’m sure that someone will have a use for it.

Once again sorry if this request is redundant.
Lukas

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This request has been mentioned before, but it won’t be introduced for some time (if at all).

You can basically achieve this functionality though, by using a unique identifier throughout, and then search and replace all. It is entirely text based, and pretty easy to do - so long as you take care of possessives etc.

eg. X => Bob, X’s => Bob’s… most of the time a direct replace will work, but beware of differences (depending on how you punctuate).

Matt