A story continuity tracker that writes itself from your episodes

What continuity actually means in a short series

Continuity is not only whether the coat is the same colour. In a serialized story it is mostly knowledge: who knows what, and when they learned it. The moment a character acts on information they should not have, the story breaks. Most continuity errors in generated video are of this kind, and they are invisible to a tool that only sees one scene at a time.

The tracker here is a document per series with three parts: a running summary, a list of characters with dated notes, and a list of threads with open or resolved status. It is written in plain text so you can read it in ten seconds before writing a beat.

Drafted deltas, not rewrites

After you write an episode's synopsis and cliffhanger, one credit asks the drafter for the delta: not a new ledger, but the additions. Which character learned what. Which thread opened, moved or closed. A refreshed story-so-far. The proposal arrives merged into a preview of the ledger, side by side with the current version, and you edit it before saving. Saving is free; so is editing by hand at any time.

Because the drafter is told to be literal and to invent nothing the synopsis does not state, the proposals are conservative. If you want a thread opened that the synopsis only implies, add it yourself.

• Per-character notes, up to twelve each
• Up to sixteen characters and twenty-four threads per series
• Threads carry the episode number they opened in
• Monospaced ledger panel, editable inline

Where the ledger is used

Every drafting call reads it: take prompts from beats, full episode outlines, and the delta draft itself. A take draft returns the list of ledger facts it relied on, which is the quickest way to spot a stale note. If a draft cites "Kiyoko has not told anyone about the pager" and she told Bartek last episode, the ledger is behind and you fix it before rendering.

The ledger never goes to the video model. It shapes the words; the words go to the model.

Keeping it honest over a season

A ledger that is never pruned becomes noise. Resolve threads when they close so the open list stays short. Trim character notes that no longer matter. The tracker keeps the last twelve notes per character, so the oldest fall away as new ones arrive; if an old note still matters, fold it into the summary. A good ledger reads like the notes a careful script supervisor would keep, not like a wiki.