Glossary · Linea

The fictional catalog

Universe: A fictional world and everything set in it. A universe can contain other universes.
Reality: One version of events in a universe, such as a timeline or an alternate continuity.
Story: A narrative set in a universe, built from story points and passages, often based on a real work.
Story point: One event in a story. Story points are ordered by what comes before and after, which gives the story its timeline.
Passage: A piece of a story's text.
Character: A fictional person or other being who appears in stories.
Concept: An idea a universe runs on: a magic system, a technology, a law, a custom.
Thing: A fictional object, such as a ship, a sword or a device.
Place: A fictional location.

Work: A real published work - a book, film, series, piece of music or other medium - that stories can be based on.
Person: A real person, such as an author, an actor or another contributor credited on works.
Entity: A real organization or institution, such as a publisher, a studio or a government body.
Location: A real place.

Based on: The link from a story to the real work it adapts or draws from.
Spoilers: Story details that could give away what happens. You can choose to avoid spoilers in your reading preferences.

Private: Only the owner and the people they let in can see the item. Its text is stored readable.
Encrypted: The item's text is stored encrypted in Linea's database, and its earlier versions with it. Only the owner and the people they let in can read it; to everyone else even its name is hidden. Either Linea holds the key (Encrypted by Linea) and administrators can help when asked, or the owner locks it with a passphrase or one of their named keys, which no one else can open. Whatever is added to an encrypted universe, reality or story is encrypted with the same key.
Locked and unlocked: A passphrase-protected item stays locked until its owner enters the passphrase, and locks again at sign-out or after a while away.
Named key: An encryption key with a name, kept on the Encryption keys page in Settings. Several items can share one key, and rotating a key re-encrypts everything under it, earlier versions included.
Recovery key: A one-time code shown when a passphrase is set or changed. It opens the item if the passphrase is lost; without either, Linea cannot recover the text.