Tag a character with @

Tagging a name tells Galley which character you mean, so it can spell them right every time and count the chapters they turn up in.

To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love for @Ire

Character

Irene AdlerSupporting

Alias of Irene Adler“Mrs. Godfrey Norton”

Create character“Ire”

Irene Adler

Supporting

Also known as

the womanMrs. Godfrey Norton

Appears in

1A Scandal in Bohemia ×12

3A Case of Identity ×2

7The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle ×1

3 of 12 chapters, 15 mentions. Away for 5 straight chapters.

In the timeline

The King of Bohemia calls20 March 1888

Marries Godfrey NortonSt. Monica’s

THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES

To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name.

He waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene in the corner.

* * *

“Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, because I have both seen and observed.”

7

Story bible

Irene Adler

Type @ and pick her. Her page counts every chapter she turns up in: 3 of 12, 15 mentions.

How to do it

1. Type @ at the start of a word. A list of your characters opens under the line.
2. Type a few letters. The list narrows as you go, so @Ire finds Irene Adler and not Lestrade. Other names count too: if Irene Adler has “the woman” as an alias, typing that finds her.
3. Pick the character. Click the name or press Enter. The name goes into your sentence, spelled the way it is on the character page.
4. Check their page. Open Characters in the top bar. Their page now lists the chapter you tagged them in, with a count beside it.

When the name isn’t in the book yet

Type it anyway. The bottom of the list offers to create a new character with that name, or to add what you typed as an alias of someone who’s already there.

What the tag gets you

• Spelling that holds. The name comes from the character page, so it’s the same in chapter one and chapter twelve.
• Appearances, counted. Each character page shows the chapters they’re in and how many times. In the Holmes book, Irene Adler is in 3 of 12 chapters, 15 mentions in all.
• Renaming in one go. Change the name at the top of the character page and every tagged mention changes with it. Galley takes a snapshot of each chapter first.

Good to know

• You don’t have to tag anything. The list only opens when you type @ or # at the start of a word, so an email address in a sentence won’t set it off.
• Untagged names still count. Galley also counts a character’s name and aliases when they appear as whole words. Tagging matters most when two characters share a name, because the count can’t tell them apart without it.
• In the finished book a tag is just the name. There’s no link, colour or formatting in the PDF or the EPUB.

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Everything else the story bible keeps is in Characters, world & notes. To find a name you spelled two ways before you started tagging, run Name consistency.