§01 / Index
A library for your work and how it came to be
Prelude documents the human creative process — alongside the editing, design, and AI technologies that shape it.
A digital archive for drafts, revisions, notes, and prompt excerpts — timestamped and held together as a single provenance record, so the authorship of research and creative work is preserved as it evolves.
§02 / Community
A quiet commons inside the library — a place for sharing projects and meeting others working on their own archives. Small for now, growing slowly.
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§03 / Method
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Registered works
Group everything around a single creative work — an illustration, a manuscript, a score.
II.
Versions and notes
Upload drafts, AI iterations, edits, and final exports. Add prompt excerpts and decisions.
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Provenance record
Read the work back as a chronological account, from first sketch to final export.
§04 / In practice
It notices when a file is a revision.
Upload chapter-3.docx today and again next week, and Prelude links them and shows what changed.
It holds prompts as carefully as drafts.
A line you tried in ChatGPT belongs in the record alongside the paragraph it became.
It can be read through, or read back.
Export a work's full provenance as a single chronological document — for yourself, a collaborator, or anyone who wants to view the creative process.
It remembers the conversations that shaped the work.
A note from a collaborator can be pinned to the timeline, so the exchange that changed a draft sits beside the draft itself.
Minimal by design — it supports your creative process.
The creative process takes time. Inspiration can come from anywhere. Your archive is preserved to support the full arc of this process.