# Series bibles belong in Plot, not Canvas > Series bibles are a Plot workflow next to episodes. Canvas is the general document editor for novels, research, and team wikis — not a substitute bible. The Inkwell Team · Jul 24, 2026 Plot, Canvas, Writers' room Jump to a section on the website - [The bible is a Plot workflow](https://www.inkwell.software/blog/series-bibles-belong-in-plot#section-the-bible-is-a-plot-workflow) - [Canvas is for documents that are not the bible](https://www.inkwell.software/blog/series-bibles-belong-in-plot#section-canvas-is-for-documents-that-are-not-the-bible) - [Same platform — separate products](https://www.inkwell.software/blog/series-bibles-belong-in-plot#section-same-platform-separate-products) Writers' rooms generate two kinds of artifacts that look related and behave nothing alike. Episodes are screenplays: sluglines, cues, page counts, production markup. The [series bible](https://www.inkwell.software/glossary/series-bible) is the living reference the room consults while writing those episodes — characters, worlds, tone rules, arc maps. Stuffing the bible into a disconnected wiki is how last quarter’s canon quietly dies. Stuffing research wikis into Plot is how the screenplay product becomes a junk drawer. Inkwell’s answer is not a mode switch. It is two products on one platform: [Plot](https://www.inkwell.software/plot) for screenplay-native work (including series bibles), [Canvas](https://www.inkwell.software/canvas) for general-purpose documents — the Notion / Google Docs shape. _\[Visual: series-bible — view the full article at inkwell.software]_ ## The bible is a Plot workflow Plot already models a series bible as its own project format, next to features, pilots, and treatments. That is intentional. A useful bible sits beside the episodes it governs: same save points, same draft lines, same room permissions, same production vocabulary when a showrunner locks mythology before breaking episode six. A downloadable [TV series bible template](https://www.inkwell.software/templates/tv-series-bible) is a starting document; the living bible still belongs in Plot next to the episodes. You want named history before a rewrite of Mara’s backstory. You want a draft line when two writers propose competing world rules. You want the cold open of episode four as a real Plot scene — not a pasted slugline inside a character entry. That is Plot’s job. ## Canvas is for documents that are not the bible Everything else around the room — research binders, pitch decks that are prose, internal wikis, production trackers that are not screenplays — belongs in [Canvas](https://www.inkwell.software/canvas). Canvas is early access / beta and aims at the same audience Notion and Google Docs serve today: long-form and knowledge docs with real version control underneath. You _can_ keep research notes in Canvas. You should not move the series bible there just because Canvas is a document editor. The intended home for the bible is Plot; Canvas is the general-docs product beside it. > **The dividing line** > > Screenplay-native reference next to episodes → Plot (series bible, treatments that behave like mini-scripts). Novels, research, team wikis, specs → Canvas. Same login when you use both products; each product has its own plan. ## Same platform — separate products Bible history and episode history should share vocabulary: [save points](https://www.inkwell.software/glossary/save-point), draft lines, reviewable skills. That is why both products sit on Inkwell. Plot and Canvas are still separate subscriptions — subscribe to Plot for the room’s scripts and bible; add Canvas when you want general docs under the same account. You do not need a second universe of Final Draft + Notion; you also should not pretend one product plan silently covers both. Use the [audience guide for writers' rooms](https://www.inkwell.software/for/writers-room) when the workflow is episodic scripts plus shared [takes](https://www.inkwell.software/glossary/take). Use [Canvas for teams](https://www.inkwell.software/for/teams) when the artifact is knowledge, not pages. Still choosing a front door? Start at [who it's for](https://www.inkwell.software/for) or [Who each Inkwell product is for](https://www.inkwell.software/blog/who-each-inkwell-product-is-for). --- Canonical page: