Relationships

We'll use a Habitation relationship, with Alasdair as the source and The Crown as the target. Use the concepts you've already made; there's no need to create them again.

1. Open Alasdair and his context sidebar.
2. In Connections, choose Add relationship.
3. Select The Crown as the target. Keep Alasdair as the source.
4. Choose Habitation, or create that relationship type. Give it Lives in under Concept A → Concept B and Inhabitants under Concept B → Concept A.
5. Check the source and target. If they're the wrong way round, choose Flip source and target. Then choose Add Relationship.

You can select several sources or targets. Start with one of each while getting familiar with the controls.

The labels describe the connection from each end. From Alasdair's side, our relationship reads:

From the city's side, it reads The Crown → Inhabitants → Alasdair. Both views show the same saved relationship. Use Flip source and target before saving if you've got them the wrong way round.

With the relationship saved, open The Crown from Alasdair's Connections. The city's sidebar shows the same relationship from the other end. Return to Alasdair using his open tab, or go back in tab history with Ctrl/Cmd[.

Relationships can also connect concepts and segments. We'll try that in the segment sidebar, after writing our first scene.

You will see that the Connections has become populated showing this new relationship. Connections can also show mentions, shared scenes, and conversations. Those come from your writing naturally as you use the app.

Add a relationships as you expand your concepts.

Alasdair now has a profile, a few details, and a connection to the city. We'll skip maps for now; you can return to Creating a map later. Next, let's write a segment following him through The Crown's streets.