The Codex
The summarizer's memory. A per-campaign glossary of the names that matter, so your write-ups stop saying "Mee-po" and start saying Meepo.
Why it exists
Speech recognition is excellent at common words and hopeless at invented fantasy names. "Neverwinter" might come through as "never winter," your warlock patron "Zariel" as "Zary L." The Codex fixes this: it's a short list of your campaign's named entities — NPCs, places, factions, items, player characters — that gets injected into every summary prompt. The LLM uses it to auto-correct mangled names as it writes.
The Codex is derived, lossy, and lightly editable on purpose — just enough memory to keep names straight. It isn't meant to be your campaign bible; that's what your vault is for.
What goes in it
NPCs & PCs
The cast — allies, villains, and your own party members.
Places
Cities, dungeons, regions, taverns — wherever the story happens.
Factions
Guilds, cults, noble houses, the bandits who keep showing up.
Items
Named artifacts, signature weapons, the MacGuffin everyone's after.
Three ways to fill it
Type them in
The fastest start: paste or type your key names into the Codex textarea. Even a dozen entries dramatically improves name accuracy.
Auto-extract from summaries
As you generate summaries, Chronicle Keeper can pull out the recurring named entities and offer them as Codex entries — the glossary grows with your campaign.
Distill from a notes folder
Already keep notes? Point the importer at a folder and an LLM reads through them to propose Codex entries. You review the preview, then commit the ones you want. (Desktop-only — it reads your local files and never runs server-side.)
Reviewing & editing
Each entry opens in an inspector where you can rename it, set its type, and add aliases or a short note. Because the Codex is injected into prompts, keeping it tidy directly improves summary quality — prune duplicates and fix spellings as you go.
Codex links in summaries
When a summary mentions an entity that's in your Codex, Chronicle Keeper marks it with a subtle dotted underline so you can spot — at a glance — which names the glossary recognised. It's a quiet cue, not a loud hyperlink.
Seed the Codex with your main NPCs and locations before the first summary, then let auto-extraction top it up. Ten minutes up front saves a lot of find-and-replace later.