Books and writing
Technical books, novels, worlds, memoirs and the notebooks behind them. know.sh holds the research and the reference; the prose stays yours.
A book is two things at once: the text a reader sees, and the reference its author keeps so the text stays right. The first lives in your manuscript tool. The second is where know.sh earns its place. Each chapter, character, place or version gets a research document; each fact you must not contradict gets a numbered finding; the A–Z index gathers every name you use, so a character, a place or an API call leads to each page that mentions it.
The recipes on this shelf keep your assistant, whichever you use, in the clerk’s chair. It looks things up, finds contradictions, lists what is missing and drafts questions. They do not write your book, and each recipe says where the line sits.
Recipesseven recipes
- 1 A technical bookFor a developer writing a book about a web framework for a technical publisherLet Claude Code build the research library for a programming book: a document per chapter, sourced findings per concept, then a check of each chapter’s claims against the sample code and the current API.
- 2 A novel series bibleFor a novelist on book four of a mystery seriesYour assistant reads your published books and files every fact with the book and chapter that set it; you check it in the editor, ask it continuity questions, and publish a spoiler-safe reader’s guide.
- 3 A fantasy world encyclopediaFor a fantasy writer building one invented world across several booksHand your lore notebooks to your assistant and it files an encyclopedia of your invented world: a shelf per domain, an entry per people, place, war or word, linked, with the A–Z index as its index.
- 4 A memoir from vignettesFor a retired teacher writing a memoir for the grandchildren, and perhaps for publicationWrite a memoir the way memory works, a vignette at a time and in any order. Your assistant files each one word for word; you drag them into place, and it asks the questions that bring back more.
- 5 A television series bibleFor a screenwriter developing a limited series to pitchYour assistant lays out a limited-series bible from your pilot and outline; you write each section in the editor, then send producers a link with a password and an expiry, replaced between drafts.
- 6 A commonplace bookFor a reader who wants to remember what they read and see how the books connectKeep the old commonplace-book habit with an index: your assistant files the passages you marked, you add your own thoughts, and it finds echoes across books and writes quizzes that bring them back.
- 7 A podcast seasonFor an independent podcaster planning a ten-episode narrative season with a guest in most episodesYour assistant researches the season and each guest from public sources and files a brief per episode; you cut and check it in the editor, write the script and questions yourself, and publish the show notes on a link.
Index to this shelf
H
K
KDP disclosure, 2
P
Password-protected links, 5
Pitching, 5
Podcasts, 7
Privacy of living people, 4
Proposed notes, 2, 6, 7
W
Worldbuilding, 3