Managing observations

The main entity types (entities being characters, places, objects, and events) have observations associated with them. These are personal observations you have made yourself about the appearance, feeling, mentality, etc. of a character; about the appearance, sounds, feelings that it evokes, etc. of a place; and so on. These act like questionnaires for you to complete about your character, place, object or event before you started writing about it. They are the best way to get to know a character etc. before you begin writing.

The observations are created in each of the add new wizards - add new character, add new place, add new thing, and add new event. You can modify your observations in the properties window when you select any of these kinds of entity.

You may just want to stick to the predefined sets of questions. Alternatively you can add new categories of questions (like adding another sheet to a questionnaire) and you can add new questions within them (like adding another question to a sheet within the questionnaire).

For instance in the add new character wizard there is an observations page:

Reordering questions and categories of questions

You can reorder questions and categories of questions as you wish using the up and down buttons.