Nebulous | Worldbuilding tool

Aye mate, this is a nifty piece of software. I would like to suggest if you could add a light theme for the UI? I know it's not the most popular opinion, but I mean, there is a small percentage of people out there like me who still prefer an option for a light theme.

i really love this! though i have some questions, if that's okay.

is there a way i can have the textbox on input be a similar color to the content background? (not too big a deal if not, just have light sensitivities that can trigger migraines so i try to minimize the amount of plain white in my workspaces)

is there a way to edit the default element index order for templates, or just to have default layouts for them too when using free size? and is there a way to adjust element height/width in a way that's more precise than with the cursor (just asking as i have trouble getting things to a good size without accidentally messing my layout up completely a couple times first)

totally understand if features like this aren't available or aren't too plausible to be available! just asking as there doesn't appear to be documentation of what is or isn't currently possible in this program. thanks!

This program's been an extremely useful replacement for obsidian, it's a lot more specific to my needs as a worldbuilder. 

I was wondering if there is chance of android builds?

Unfortunately I do the majority of my writing on my tablet while I've downtime away from home, and I can't bring nebulous with me!

This program looks super useful! It would be nice to have a local version of my headworld down!
only problem so far is I can't seem to figure out how to make the text in the tabs larger? I've tried the font settings but when I make a new profile and go to edit it, it opens a windows font selection box and no matter what size I make it in there the font in Nebulous proper stays firmly at size 13...

Yo.

Nothing wrong with the software as far as my experience has gone, just curious. Are sound and media elements not implemented yet as a feature or am I missing something to gain access to it? I am an sfx and track designer and would love to be able to put custom audio for certain tidbits.

Working with it isn't seamless however when starting, you do need to find your way around certain functions as a beginner so i'd highly recommend putting a manual somewhere in settings or making a visual guide somewhere as not everyone (like myself) ends up hovering over everything immediately to see what it does.

That aside I absolutely adore this software. I've only used it for about 3 to 4 days now as I've recently discovered it and I think accomplishes its idea really really well! Working with it is fun and I've gotten some of my friends to download it to work together with it!

Hi! This seems like really cool application for worldbuilding, but I was wondering if there was a tutorial on how to use it somewhere? 
I'm just struggling a little while trying to figure it out on my own lol.

Recently downloaded v4 after using 3.3 for a while and v4 flatout refuses to run. No dialog or anything, just won't launch. running on windows 10

So, I have no idea what the cause of this is but I literally cannot operate things that require moving to the right of a context menu. Trying to move the mouse to the extra options always cancels the menu.

Hey, I've run into a strange problem. Whenever I custom resize something and get all of my elements correctly placed, if I close out of it or go into a different category then come back, all the elements will change their sizes and position themselves randomly. I'm not sure why this happens or if it's intentional or not, as it messes up my formatting and I cannot keep things how I want them. Lmk if I'm missing something here or if you can help.

A really nice software you've made here, all of the text and object options work perfectly for what I need. I appreciate the short keybinds like ctrl+enter to quickly update things as well as needing to press control to move things around so I can't accidentally mess anything up. The open/close all items is also a nice QoL addition as things can get overwhelming with a ton of tabs open.

Although I wish you could manually sort out the Nebulograph tree to connect what I want. I understand how it sorts things based on how many times they are referenced, but it's difficult to get things in a particular order when you have a lot of objects and they decay from the graph no matter what I try. Additionally, even just opening the graph with only about 25 objects freezes the program completely because of how it has to sort through with the algorithm. It would be nice to add an option to use manual tree making instead where you can move around objects, include and exclude certain things, and connect them however you want.

I would also love to see some kind of guide document or video published on each update to showcase all the current and new features of the program to help out beginners or show current users what's new. Starting off, the program did feel very clunky and it was difficult to navigate all of the different features, not knowing what each did, especially in the Nebulograph. The mini descriptions when you hover over something do help, but a longer form guide would be better for beginners.

All of this being said, everything else in your program runs perfectly and this is exactly the tool I was looking for for my worlds. I hope to see the continued improvement of the software and look forward to updates!

Saw a couple of other comments about the program, and I just want to say that it's safe to use. Windows freaks out about it, but it freaks about any program where it doesn't recognize the publisher. Looking at task manager when it runs doesn't show anything untoward. No unexplained resource usage or similarly named windows apps taking more resources than they need. Additionally, Malwarebytes says it's clean, and that's good enough for me.

That said, this is a wonderful tool that's made fleshing out my stories a lot easier compared to other world building and writing tools. I have a few stories going at once that take place in the same town, and with the graph I get to see clearly how everything relates together. A nice touch is the option to exclude certain objects from the graph so they don't clutter it up. Plus, with everything interlinking through keywords, if I'm unsure about a detail I can't quite remember, it's just a click away. In say scrivener, I'd have to dig through my file sections, since I end up way more cluttered in it than I do in nebulous.

I will say, it is a smidge clunky feeling at first, since it took a moment to get used to creating objects to act as the over arching categories to nest new objects inside. Once you get used to that though, working in it is a breeze. It's making writing for my game easier since the way I use it works well with how I think, easily hopping from one section to the next, adding bits and pieces as I go. It's like super organized sticky notes.

My only request (if it isn't in the program already) is to have the writing fields be in dark mode too. Hurts my eyes a bit when I have to edit or add objects, and it's a flash of white from the text fields when I open them up. I know there's an option for changing themes in nebulous, so if there's an option for that to make the text field dark, I haven't found it yet. ; w ;

Very sad that my PC nukes this the second it finishes downloading, I was looking forward to trying it out. It specifically marks this file as a trojan, which isn't very inviting ngl... I've never had this issue with another itch.io executable before either so I'm not sure what is up.

New update is being read as a virus threat by Windows Defender

Just started using this and it seems pretty nice but I've run in to apparently an error. Not sure if this is just on my end for whatever reason but creating anything besides a default entry under a category seems to lock the new object as using the exact same display name as the category it was made under no matter what you change it to.

Also, moving objects to different categories does not appear to automatically alter the listed category. I tried this and ended up somehow with a character that links back to itself too.

What does this do that Trillium Notes doesn't? I only discovered Trillium recently, and both this and that look awesome.

https://github.com/zadam/trilium

This tool is cool to use, but I wish there was a way to edit the connections on the nebulograph directly to make it where its not a struggle to figure out why things arent connecting.

This is a really impressive tool, but there's some functionality that'd be incredibly useful to me concerning object categorization, so I hope you don't mind me leaving a feature request:

The first feature that would be super useful would be the ability to somehow compartmentalize objects of the same category.

The second, admittedly more involved feature, but one that I think would be really powerful would be the ability to place objects in multiple categories

I realize you can kind of approximate some of this of functionality using properties, but it'd really useful to, for example, quickly get a list of all Underworld Deities without having to open up graph view, categorize all of them exclusively as Underworld Deities or personally maintain a list.

I appreciate this kind of functionality may well be no small task to implement, so I understand if this outside the scope of this project, but I wanted to leave a comment all the same. Thank you for all your hard work!

Thank you very much for this tool. I really appriciate your effort.

I have encountered 2 bugs. I will try to discribe them.

1. When you double click on one picture from the right column and make it show only the clicked one, if you remove it, the picture column becomes blank and you can't access the other pictures that you have added in the object. Only way to fix it is to delete the object and make it again.

2. When I try to change the size of the picture from the column slider sometimes the tool crashes.

I would like to make a request too for a future update. I would appreciate it if you could make it to accept other languages too (like Greek). I think you will have to change your encoding to utf-8.

This software has really helped me and my better half bring the planet of Taenjaar to life, and I am truly grateful.

When can we expect the next update, if any planned? 

Hi, really enjoying using this for keeping track of my little worlds! I am seeing a weird behaviour, maybe a bug? When I ctrl click on a section to make a new object in that section, it opens three new object tabs at once. The action when hitting the new object button is normal, it's just when creating a new object within a section.

Not app breaking or anything but a tad annoying.

The current save system effectively works as "save as" button. Is it really so hard to make it remember the name of the file and just use it when saving second time and onwards?

I have been looking for something exactly like your software for such an excruciatingly long time now! It really does exactly what is needed for world building. Thank you so much for this :)

One small thing, and maybe it's just me suffering from data loss, but it would be absolutely awesome if there was a shortcut to quickly save, simply overwriting the currently open file without a save dialog.

An optional autosave after Generate would of course be the cherry on top of the cupcake *haha*

Keep up the good work, you're always awesome *thumbs up*

How do you export a file from this software?

I downloaded it a couple weeks ago and started writing something up, but then lost my work when I restarted my computer. Far as I've seen the toolbar only has an "import" option.

Short question, i try to run the software in wine on Linux but since .NET is kind of a issue there, i only have a empty screen.

Is there the possibility of a Linux Native port in the future? If not also not a big issue. I will in the near future install a Win7 machine as a VM. So i can use that for my work on the project.

Your program looks great! I have a small question, but what is the private policy/is our data our own for your program? Sorry if this is a silly to ask, but was curious! 

I love the layout and theme for the design. Thank you for making this!

Small bug, if a synonym is mentioned in the object that it's a synonym of, it creates a link that causes an error.

An error occurred while calling object: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. at Nebulous_v3._0.MainWindow.CallObject(NebObject obj)

I was wondering, is there any way to exclude a link within the text of an article itself? Something like surrounding it with brackets like <this> or something. If not I feel like that would be something very useful to include. Something else that would be useful is a drop down menu of already existing categories when typing in a new category, so you only have to type in the first few letters and don't have to worry about misspelling it.

Hi! Another suggestion if you don't mind! Would it be possible to implement a way to quickly move objects around in categories, such as by drag and dropping an object into a desired category/object?

It's a bit of a hassle to reclassify objects at the moment if you change a category's name.

Great tool, been using it for some time now. Thank you for making it!

A small suggestion, would it be possible to add a feature where you can rightclick a category for example, to automatically make a new object in it? This would make it a bit easier to flesh out categories quickly, so you don't have to enter the category every time you make a new object.

Been using this a bit and its pretty good.

Every now and then I'll try to assign an image to an object and it just wont work. I've tried restarting the app and using a different image but I can't get it to work.

Also I've found that when I got to select an image i have to change it so it searches for all files not just the selected ones because the images don't show up otherwise.

Are these known issues or is it just me?

I find I still can't see the edit object tab or search bar. It wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for the fact ctrl + e doesn't seem to work for whatever reason most of the time.