Location/item properties
The Location/item properties view opens in the right pane when you select a location or an item in the tree.
Title and description
Title and description are displayed in an editable “index card”.
The editing of the title can be completed by pressing the Enter key.
Changes to the description are applied when the mouse is clicked
anywhere outside the text input field.
AKA
This entry field is for alias names. Editing can be completed
by pressing the Enter key.
Links
Expand or collapse this frame by clicking on the label.
This is a list for image and research document links.
Although novelibre holds some character/location/item data, it is not the right application for extensive world building. For this, you may want to use more powerful software, like Zim Desktop Wiki. In this case, novelibre allows you to create links to the text files that will take you quickly to the right places in the wiki.
Or you have collected some images that could inspire you when writing. Then simply create links to these images to open them with your system’s standard image viewer.
Tip
If you have collected several images for a character in a folder that your standard image viewer can browse through, a single link to any image file is sufficient.
The links are displayed in a list in the order they are entered.
- Add Link
When clicking on
, a file selection dialog opens. The selected
file will be added to the link list.Hint
By default, the dialog shows image files. For other file types, change the selector in the lower right corner.
Windows Explorer Screenshot
- Remove Link
When clicking on
or pressing the Delkey, the selected link is removed from the list.- Open Link
When double-clicking on a link, or clicking on
,
the link is opened with the standard application for the link’s file type.Hint
If you want to open certain linked files with another application than the standard application, you can provide a novelibre “launcher” setting. For this, just create a text file named launchers.ini in the
.novx/configdirectory (where all configuration files are stored). Here you can assign applications to the file extensions.Zim desktop wiki pages are a special case. For this, the Zim program is assigned to the .zim extension.
This example shows a setting that makes novelibre open text files with the Zim Desktop Wiki application instead of the standard text editor:
[SETTINGS] .zim = C:/Program Files (x86)/Zim Desktop Wiki/zim.exe
Windows Explorer Screenshot
“Sticky note”
The yellow text area is for notes. Changes are applied when the mouse is clicked anywhere outside the text input field.
When the “sticky note” of a location or item contains text, “N” is displayed in the tree view as a reminder. If the branch of a chapter with sections containing notes is collapsed, the “N” is displayed in the chapter row.
Note
The “sticky notes” are only for working with novelibre. They are not meant to be exported into a document.