The default image used for all continents on Notebook.ai, but you can replace it with your own uploads.

Creating Continents on Notebook.ai

Underneath our feet, continents form the base and borders our worlds are built upon.

Creating continents on Notebook.ai is easy.

To get started, just click Continents under the "Worldbuilding" header in the site sidebar. You'll be able to see or edit all of your existing continent pages and create new ones at any time.

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Search your continents


If you've got a lot of continents, you can quickly get around to the right one with Notebook.ai's full-text search. It searches your entire notebook for anything you wrote about that continent.

You can also filter your continents by tag, whether you've favorited that page, and which universe it's in.

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Private by default


Your ideas are valuable. Every continent you create in Notebook.ai is owned by you, completely private by default, and only accessible to you.

But of course, you also have full control over that privacy and can share any continent page you want, however you want, whenever you want.

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Premium page


Continent notebook pages require an active Premium subscription to create, but users on free plans can view and edit their existing continent pages at any time.

Notebook.ai is your personal worldbuilding notebook; any page you create is yours forever and you'll never lose access to any part of it for any reason — even if you downgrade to a free account in the future.

 

explore Get a head start with a rich continent template


Templates on Notebook.ai are what help our unique worldbuilding system better understand your world.

You can fill out as little or as much as you'd like on every new continent. You'll see progress indicators every time you edit it to show where you can make progress on, and our system will intelligently generate questions for you around the site that will automatically save your answers to the proper place on your continent page.

Templates are also fully customizable across every continent in your notebook.

You can browse the default template for continents here; click any category to see its questions.

  • info Overview
    Local name
    What do the people of this continent call it?

    Other names
    What other names is this continent called?

    Description
    What is this continent's description?

    Universe
    This field allows you to link your other Notebook.ai pages to this continent.

    Tags
    This field lets you add clickable tags to your continents.

  • terrain Geography
    Area
    How large is this continent?

    Shape
    What is this continent shaped like?

    Population
    How many people live in this continent?

    Topography
    How would you describe the topography of this continent?

    Mineralogy
    What minerals or other kinds of rocks are there in this continent?

    Bodies of water
    What large bodies of water are there in this continent?

    Landmarks
    This field allows you to link your other Notebook.ai pages to this continent.

    Regional advantages
    What regional advantages does this continent have?

    Regional disadvantages
    What regional disadvantages does this continent have?

  • face Culture
    Demonym
    What are the people that live in this continent called?

    Politics
    What are the politics like in this continent?

    Economy
    What is the economy like in this continent?

    Tourism
    What is the tourism like in this continent?

    Architecture
    What is the architectural style in this continent?

    Reputation
    What is this continent's reputation?

    Countries
    This field allows you to link your other Notebook.ai pages to this continent.

    Languages
    This field allows you to link your other Notebook.ai pages to this continent.

    Traditions
    This field allows you to link your other Notebook.ai pages to this continent.

    Governments
    This field allows you to link your other Notebook.ai pages to this continent.

    Popular foods
    This field allows you to link your other Notebook.ai pages to this continent.

  • local_florist Nature
    Crops
    What crops are usually grown in this continent?

    Creatures
    This field allows you to link your other Notebook.ai pages to this continent.

    Floras
    This field allows you to link your other Notebook.ai pages to this continent.

  • fireplace Climate
    Temperature
    How hot does it get in this continent? How cold?

    Seasons
    What are the seasons like in this continent?

    Humidity
    How humid is it in this continent?

    Precipitation
    What kind of precipitation does this continent experience? How often?

    Winds
    What are the winds like in this continent?

    Natural disasters
    What natural disasters are common in this continent?

  • date_range History
    Formation
    How did this continent originally form?

    Discovery
    How was this continent discovered?

    Wars
    What wars have been fought in this continent?

    Ruins
    What ruins are there in this continent?

  • photo_library Gallery

    This category lets you upload images to this continent's notebook page.


    It's great if you have sketches or artwork for your continent, but also works well for collecting visual inspiration, too!

  • edit Notes
    Notes
    Write as little or as much as you want!

    Private Notes
    Write as little or as much as you want!
    Private notes are always visible to only you, even if content is made public and shared.

 
Continent features

photo_library Upload images to your continent


Continents and other worldbuilding pages all come with a dedicated area to upload and showcase your own uploaded images.

All users start out with 50MB of image storage space available for their notebook (usually around 250-500 images), but Premium users receive an extra 10GB (10,000MB) of storage space for plenty of wiggle room when decking your continents out with all kinds of images.

The images you upload replace any default images the site uses, which makes your notebook truly feel yours when you see all of your fancy continents!

vpn_lock Focus on continents from a single universe


Building entire fictional worlds is hard, and it gets even harder when you've got ideas spanning multiple universes or worlds.

Focusing on a single universe at a time is a good example of how Notebook.ai tries to stay out of your way as a worldbuilding tool, while also presenting your ideas front-and-center for you to work on without distractions.

After you've created a couple universes, you can select any one at any time to filter your entire notebook to just continents and other pages that exist within that universe, letting you focus on just what's important right then.

group_add Invite others to collaborate


Notebook.ai lets you add an unlimited number of collaborators to your universes. Each one has full access to work alongside you on your continents and other pages within that universe.

If you have a Premium subscription active, your collaborators can also share all of your Premium perks while working in your universe, too!

brightness_4 Work in light or dark mode


Protect your eyes at night by choosing between light and dark themes at the click of a button, available across the entire website.

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An example of a writing prompt generated for user's fictional race

explore Build your continent piece by piece with personalized writing prompts


Once you've started creating a continent or two, you'll start noticing our worldbuilding tool asking you personalized questions about those continents around the site.

Whenever you write an answer to any of these prompts, they'll automatically be saved to the relevant field on your continent notebook page and you won't be asked the same question again.



Our users have created
4,048
continents on Notebook.ai


of which,
232
were created in the past 30 days!

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Notebook.ai has been around since 2016 and we're still growing. We're dedicated to making the best writing tool for authors out there — so we'll be around (and improving) for a very long time.

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Every account on Notebook.ai comes with unlimited document storage and an integrated word processor for you to bring your fictional worlds to life.

Other integrated tools allow you to build upon the foundation you lay from a world of continents and other notebook pages. Each one offers new ways to enrich your world and write better stories within them.

  • timeline Start working on a timeline and add your continents to the individual scenes that are relevant to them.
  • description Create unlimited documents and link your continents to them.
  • description Quickly pull up and reference any aspect of your linked continents from the Notebook.ai editor without ever leaving your document.
  • layers Group your notebook pages together in new ways by adding them to Collections.
  • ballot Share your continents to your followers or the world to get comments and feedback.
  • explore See in a single place all the timelines, documents, and collections your continent is linked to.
 

Continents are just one of the 29 types of worldbuilding pages available on Notebook.ai.
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