Managing Location Types

Location types are customizable categories you can assign to your locations. Unlike character importance levels (which are fixed at Primary, Secondary, Background), location types are entirely up to you.

What Are Location Types?

Think of types as a way to categorize your locations by their function or scale. Common types might include:

• Continent, Country, Region
• City, Town, Village
• Building, Room, Landmark
• Forest, Mountain, River

You decide which types exist and what they're called. The types you create are specific to each book - a fantasy novel might use "Realm, Kingdom, City", while a thriller might use "Country, City, Building".

Types and Importance

Location types and importance levels are separate things. Type describes what kind of place something is (City, Forest, Building), while Importance describes how significant it is to your story (Primary, Secondary, Background). A location can have both. For example, "The Shire" might be type "Region" and importance "Primary".

Managing Your Location Types

Create, edit, delete, and reorder your location types in Settings > Location Types.

In the Location Types settings, you can:

• Create new types with custom names
• Rename existing types
• Reorder types using the small up and down arrow buttons next to each type name
• Delete types you no longer need — this does not delete any locations. Those locations will simply show "No type selected" until you assign them a different type.

Sorting by Type

When you select "By Type" from the Sort menu at the top of your locations list, locations are grouped by their type and then sorted alphabetically within each group. The type groups appear in the custom order you set in Location Types settings, so the order you arrange your types matters.