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Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/45106
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Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/45106
License name: CC BY-SA 3.0
License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

Something that may do SOME of what you want (the "binding" of character to event is what made me think of it) is **[ARCHIVOS](https://archivos.digital/)**.

Basically, you create story elements (people, places, events), and then declare the relationships between them. Things display in a "storyweb", timeline, and map. It's free to have an account for one "world". More info on how to set it up is here: [https://archivos.digital/getting-started-archivos/](https://archivos.digital/getting-started-archivos/)

So you may link Sally Brown to specific people (family, bosses, underlings), items (Sally-sword) and skills (cunning), and also link to her for each event she's involved with. And if the events have dates, they'll be on the timeline, so you can track her story chronologically.

(Apparently in v2, there'll be multiple timelines available, so you can track broadcast-date vs event-date (or have a non-linear novel link up with "audience reads it in X chapter" vs "character experienced it at this date.") That's a feature I definitely want to exploit -- more for media analysis than my own story-creation. )

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_Disclosure: I went to a few demos of this at [Balticon](http://balticon.org) last year (2018), and if I were in a fiction-writing mode, or doing the planned media-crit podcasts, I'd totally use it. I'm now Facebook friends with the guy who created it. (Hi Dave!) I am not linked with them, but I do seem to share their link a lot here, because it seems relevant frequently._

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