Clews

Make sense of what connects.

Knowledge rarely exists alone.

Everything begins with a Clew.

A person. A place. An event. An idea.

Anything worth understanding can become a Clew.

Clews project editor showing The Disappearance as a Clew with its Guilds, Threads, and description.

A Clew never stands alone.

Guilds give context.

Threads create relationships.

Clews editor showing The Disappearance with its Event Guild and the Thread relationship selector open.

Structure emerges from the connections.

See what connects.

Local relationship map in Clews showing The Disappearance connected to related Clews through named Threads.

Every Thread has a shape.

Extended relationship map in Clews showing multiple Clews and Threads across the project.

From one Clew to the whole project.

Start anywhere.

History. Worlds. Research. Systems. Organizations.

Clews template chooser showing starting structures for History, World, Research, System, and Organization projects.

Your project remains yours.

.clews: Portable projects.
PDF: Selected project documentation.
PNG: Thread Map images.

PDF export selection sheet in Clews showing selectable Guilds and Clews from a History project.

Clews

Make sense of what connects.

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