Global Scope Author's Note (GSAN) [v1.0.0]

What is This?

GSAN is a single system for managing your story's author's note on the global and local scales.

Who Would Use This?

• anyone who uses and enjoys Mid's Memory Manager
• anyone who finds themselves juggling the same information between most, or all, of your stories and is looking for an easy to use solution for managing, moving, editing, and replacing that information

How Does It Work?

GSAN divides the typical single author's note block into three distinct blocks (while using ## to comment out the syntax headers and footers, so the script adds ZERO extra context outside of what you write!)

Local Author's Note:

your manual local (per-story) author's note! everything written here is not touched by GSAN, and sits on top of anything the script may append.

Managed Author's Note:

'local' author's note built with the in-house Author's Note Builder. a system where the user is able to create "author's note chunks", which are pre-written data blocks you're able to add, remove, and rearrange seamlessly! no copy and pasting necessary!
[bonus: the chunks themselves are also global data! making an edit to a chunk will automatically adjust it across any other story where it's loaded]

Global Author's Note:

a togglable data block that remains persistent across ALL stories. able to be adjusted in any story, at any point, completely painlessly.

Known Caveats/Issues

• as of the initial release, there are zero known script and/or story breaking bugs
• however: when using the vanilla Author's Note text editor, remember your local changes MUST be placed above the [Managed Note] block. any changes within the editor that aren't above the [Managed Note] block will be wiped upon the next context build, even if they appear to remain in the editor.
• and as always: make backups! if you have a large global note block, i'd recommend keeping a backup in an empty story's local author's note.

To-Do List/Potential Update Plans

• nothing yet! feel free to leave suggestions in the comments and/or in the Mid's Memory Manager forum post in the NAI discord server