How to connect and organize information?

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@Ayanami

I decide that for the narrative at one point it’s a good idea to make one of the recurring characters have a disability. Now I have to find all scenes where this character has a relevence. Please note that this may also include scenes where the character is not mentioned by name.

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@Ayanami

Imagine I want to rename a character (especially minor side characters). At the moment, I am able to drag and drop their character document into the scene and have them linked. However, renaming the document does not rename the link. So I’d have to search-replace the character name manually, which can be tricky depending on the actual name.

In the use case you’ve described, you could also simply use project replace.
Edit / Find / Project Replace
→ Replace the old name with the new name and voilà. Links should still work properly after that, but would read the new character’s name (or whatever the change was).

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@Ayanami

Having a map of characters with their relationships would be awesome. Who’s related with whom, friends, enemies, and so on.

Check out Scapple
https://www.literatureandlatte.com/scapple/overview

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In this post linked below I explain how I manage complex linking across multiple documents with exact in-text locations within them :

Link Specific Text from One Document to Another?

I’ve improved the method a bit… I redesigned it using a character attributes style. So that handles removing the location tags from compile if desired. It also takes care of the comments/footnotes issue in the simplest way, as well as operating outside of the inline annotations, allowing the location tags to be treated 100% apart from any other built in switches. Thus allowing to compile with inline annotations, comments, footnotes, while removing the tags that might serve no purpose in a compi…

There is a another post of mine previous to this one a bit upthread, in case it ain’t clear enough, but I don’t think it is essential.

It is worth also reading posts from @AmberV (posts from this same thread) who handles the matter somewhat differently. (But in a fashion that’s just as functional — if not perhaps even more ? —, as far as I can tell.)