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    Research Beside the Book, Not in Forty Browser Tabs

    The research workspace is a page of its own for each book, where you talk through characters, places and world rules with Robin, or look up real-world detail that grounds the fiction. When something takes shape, Robin offers it as an entry card: a character, a place, a world note, a glossary term, a timeline event or a free note. You edit the card, press Save, and it goes into your Story Hub. Nothing is saved until you say so, and nothing in the workspace touches your manuscript.

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    Why This Matters

    Research notes usually end up in three places: a browser, a notebook and the back of your head. None of them are where the book is. The research workspace keeps the conversation next to the book, and turns the useful part of it into a Story Hub entry you will actually find again in chapter twenty.

    How It Works

    1

    Open the workspace

    Each book has its own research page. The prompt reads "Explore a character, a place, or a real-world detail…".

    2

    Talk it through

    Ask Robin to help you develop a place, question a world rule, or check how something worked in real life.

    3

    Review the card

    When an idea is concrete, Robin offers it as a card. Press Edit to change anything, then "Done editing".

    4

    Save it to the Story Hub

    Press Save. The toast says "Saved to your Story Hub", and "Open in Story Hub" takes you straight to the entry.

    Two kinds of research in one room

    The workspace opens with a line that explains it: "Develop your story with Robin. Talk through characters, places, and world rules — or look up real-world detail that grounds the fiction."

    The first kind is invention. You know the city needs a harbour district but not what it smells like, or you know your magic has a cost but not what it is. Robin asks questions and offers options. If you want to be pushed harder, the Grill Me skill turns the conversation into a relentless design interview, question after question, until the idea holds together.

    The second kind is fact. How long a sailing ship took from Lisbon to Goa, what a 1950s police station looked like inside, how a particular poison acts. On Premium and Pro, Robin can search the web for this, and you can keep asking until the detail is right for the scene.

    Cards, and why nothing saves itself

    Robin can propose six kinds of card: a character, a place, a story world entry, a glossary term, a timeline event and a free note. Each card is a draft. You can edit every field, and only when you press Save does it become part of your Story Hub. A saved card is marked "Saved", with a link to open it where it now lives.

    That rule is deliberate. A research conversation produces far more ideas than a book can use, and a Story Hub full of half-decisions is worse than an empty one. You choose what becomes canon.

    The Story Hub stays in view

    Beside the conversation, a Story Hub panel lists what you already have: Story World, Characters, Places, Timeline, Glossary and Notes, with "Open full Story Hub" for the rest. Switch between Split, with the chat and the Story Hub side by side, and Chat, when you want the conversation full width.

    When the Story Hub is behind the manuscript, "Draft all from Book" catches it up. Choose the entire book or one chapter, and Robin drafts new and updated entries from what you wrote, for you to review before anything is saved.

    Conversations are kept. "New chat" starts a fresh one, and History holds your earlier research chats so you can pick a thread back up.

    Your manuscript is not in the room

    The research workspace cannot edit your chapters. It reads the book for context and writes only to the Story Hub, and only when you save a card. When you go back to the page, the prose is exactly as you left it.

    What Each Plan Includes

    PlanWhat you get
    Starter (free)Talk it through and save cards. No web search.
    Premium ($29/mo)Everything in Starter, plus 10 web searches a month.
    Pro ($49/mo)Everything in Starter, plus 50 web searches a month.

    Prices and plans: see pricing.

    What It Does Not Do

    • Web search is not on the free plan.
    • The workspace does not show a list of sources for what Robin found on the web. Check facts that matter against a primary source.
    • It cannot edit your manuscript. Cards go to the Story Hub only.
    • Searches reset on the 1st of each month. When they run out, the workspace tells you.
    • Conversations use your monthly time with Robin, like every other conversation.

    Key Benefits

    A research room for each book
    Develop characters, places and world rules
    Look up real-world detail on Premium and Pro
    Ideas become Story Hub cards you can edit
    Nothing is saved until you press Save
    The Story Hub stays in view beside the chat
    Grill Me for a hard design interview
    Your chapters are never edited here

    Perfect For

    Building a fantasy world before drafting
    Checking historical detail for a period novel
    Getting a police procedural right
    Developing a secondary character who needs more depth
    Catching the Story Hub up with a finished draft

    Frequently Asked Questions

    Is the research workspace a web browser?

    No. It is a conversation with Robin about your book. On Premium and Pro, Robin can search the web as part of that conversation. Free plans can still talk things through and save cards.

    Will it add things to my Story Hub by itself?

    No. Robin offers cards, and nothing is saved until you press Save.

    Does it show sources?

    Not as a list in the workspace today. Treat it as a way to get oriented quickly, and confirm the facts that carry weight in your book.

    Can it change my chapters?

    No. The workspace reads the book for context and writes only to your Story Hub, when you save a card.

    What comes nextWrite it The world is in the Story Hub. Close the research, open the chapter, and write with the toolbars out of the way.

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    Get started free — no credit card required. Write your way, with Robin ready when you want help.

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