Does character tracking work across books, or just the current one?

Across the whole series. Profiles, appearances, and relationships all live at the project level, so a character carries through every book.

What do you mean by relationships in both directions?

Two people don't always feel the same way about each other. Verkilo lets you set each side on its own, so trust one way and suspicion the other are both true at once.

Can a character be the lead in one book and a bit part in the next?

That's the point. You set how much a character matters in each book — main, supporting, or minor — and each book's notes hold what they're doing there. Read the entries in order and you're reading their arc.

I plan with the Snowflake Method. Can I keep per-book character synopses?

Yes. Each book's character notes are free-form rich text — a full synopsis, a goal and a secret, or two quick sentences. The field doesn't care how you plan.

Product Tour · Writing a whole series

Know your characters, book after book

Profiles, a role in every book, every appearance, and shifting relationships — for your whole cast.

By book five a character is a different person than they were in book one — and you’re keeping dozens of them straight across thousands of pages. Verkilo remembers all of it, so you don’t have to.

Profiles

A real profile for everyone, and it grows with the character as the series goes on.

Role, a one-line summary, and open rich-text notes
Shape it as the character changes, book to book

A role in every book

A series character is one person playing different parts. The mentor of book one is the antagonist of book three; the walk-on in book two carries the finale.

Cast a character in any book and set how much they matter there: main, supporting, or minor
Write what they’re doing in that book, in your own words — their arc, their goal, a reminder not to spring the twist before chapter twelve
Cast ahead: assign a character to book four before you’ve written a scene of it
Scan their entries in series order and you’re reading the character’s whole arc

Every appearance

When you’re writing a payoff in book six, read the whole road that led there in one scroll.

Every scene they appear in, with synopsis and POV, grouped by book
Mention them in your prose and the list updates on its own
No side spreadsheet to keep in sync

Relationships

A betrayal in book three only lands if it lines up with the trust you built in book one.

Directional feelings: one can trust while the other quietly fears
Track how those feelings shift from book to book
Spot a mismatch while it’s still yours to fix

Common questions

Does character tracking work across books, or just the current one?: Across the whole series. Profiles, appearances, and relationships all live at the project level, so a character carries through every book.
What do you mean by relationships in both directions?: Two people don’t always feel the same way about each other. Verkilo lets you set each side on its own, so trust one way and suspicion the other are both true at once.
Can a character be the lead in one book and a bit part in the next?: That’s the point. You set how much a character matters in each book — main, supporting, or minor — and each book’s notes hold what they’re doing there. Read the entries in order and you’re reading their arc.
I plan with the Snowflake Method. Can I keep per-book character synopses?: Yes. Each book’s character notes are free-form rich text — a full synopsis, a goal and a secret, or two quick sentences. The field doesn’t care how you plan.