The Research Library (The Codex)

“Your research should survive your story.”

The Codex is the permanent brain of your Writers Factory installation. Unlike other tools that force you to create a new “Project” for every idea, the Codex is a single, ever-growing library of everything you know and love.

The Concept directly addresses the “Messy Notebook” problem

In traditional writing apps:

  1. You research “18th Century Poisons” for a mystery novel.
  2. You write the novel.
  3. You archive the project.
  4. Two years later, you write a Fantasy novel that needs poisons.
  5. Problem: Your research is trapped in the old archive. You do the research again.

The Solution: The Codex represents your Kitchen Pantry. You buy ingredients (Research) and put them on the shelf. They stay there forever, waiting for the right Meal (Story) to use them.

How it Works

The Codex uses Vector Embeddings.

When you drag a JSON file from NotebookLM into the Research Library:

  1. The system breaks it into paragraphs (“Chunks”).
  2. It converts each chunk into a mathematical vector (a list of numbers representing meaning).
  3. It stores these vectors in a local database.

This means you can search by Concept, not just keyword.

  • Query: “Sadness about lost time”
  • Result: Finds a paragraph about “The Japanese concept of Mono no aware” (even if the words ‘sadness’ or ‘time’ aren’t in it).

The “Story-Agnostic” Philosophy

Your research should not know what story it belongs to.

  • Bad Research: “Note for Chapter 3 about the bomb.” (Only useful for Chapter 3).
  • Good Research: “Technical diagram of C4 detonators.” (Useful for any thriller, any chapter).

We want Good Research. We encourage you to create notebooks like “The Arena” (Sports) or “The Speculation” (Sci-Fi Concepts) that are purely about the topic, not your current plot.

Using the Codex

Step 1: Ingest

Drag and drop JSON exports from NotebookLM into the Research Library tab. The system indexes them immediately.

Step 2: Extract (The Connection Point)

When you start a new story, you don’t browse the whole library. You use your Story Bible as a magnet.

  1. The system takes your Story Theme (“Betrayal”).
  2. It passes a magnet over your Codex.
  3. It pulls out only the chunks that resonate with “Betrayal”.

This creates a temporary Research Graph for your specific project, leaving the original Codex untouched.

Summary

  • Codex = The Permanent Library (All files, vector search).
  • Research Graph = The Project Portfolio (Only what matters for this book).