A Brief History of Indent Labs and Notebook.ai — I started Indent Labs in 2015 with a simple goal: to create powerful, new kinds of writing tools for myself and other authors. I’d lost countless physical notebooks over the years, which is what inspired Notebook.ai. A digital version of a notebook had its pros and cons, but I set…

I’m not looking forward to AI getting a bad reputation among publishers, but now that the tech has advanced enough that anyone can generate entire stories in seconds, it seems we’re at an inflection point. This is a short, human-written essay on how to handle what’s next in the worlds…

It’s a new year! After the site’s success in 2022, I’m excited to start a new chapter moving forward for NovelGens. There’s a ton of new stuff in this update for you to explore, but I’ll list the big hitters here and send you on your way!

NovelGens started as an abstract idea: with the rate of both image- and text-generation AIs improving so quickly, is it possible to blend that tech together in a package that makes it incredibly easy for worldbuilders to generate new, interesting creatures for their fictional worlds? It’s hard to imagine what…

Dystopian Rule or Utopian Dream? You decided! First off, I want to give a huge THANK YOU to everyone who submitted governments to our first worldbuilding competitions. We received 16 submissions across both contests and each one was a delight to read. I also want to give a special thank…

Howdy all! If there’s one time of year that probably gets the “what if” juices flowing for worldbuilding fictional governments, it’s…

For many of us, it’s voting season. It’s time to think about what kind of government we want — and then create it, one vote at a time. I’ll be voting and I hope you do too. So what better time to make Government pages free for everyone to create…

I’ve been hard at work on a ton of experimental worldbuilding projects and I’m really excited to finally release a huge feature rework and redesign for NovelGens. In short, the update is themed around highlighting the wonderful stories and artwork our talented users have submitted so far — and creating…

Lots of new features for the Notebook.ai forums — Hello, worldbuilders! It’s been a while. I’ve been hard at work on a big redesign for Notebook.ai, building an AI to help fill your world with interesting creatures, and creating a tool to help you prepare to publish your stories, but I’ve got a lot of useful new features for…