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

Creating Races on Notebook.ai

Humans can be joined by elves, orcs, werewolves, vampires, dragons, and many other races.

Creating races on Notebook.ai is easy.

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

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Search your races


If you've got a lot of races, 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 race.

You can also filter your races 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 race 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 race page you want, however you want, whenever you want.

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Premium page


Race notebook pages require an active Premium subscription to create, but users on free plans can view and edit their existing race 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.

 

face Get a head start with a rich race 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 race. 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 race page.

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

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

  • info Overview
    Name
    What is this race named?

    Description
    How would you describe this race's people?

    Other names
    What other names do this race have?

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

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

  • face Looks
    Body shape
    What does the average this race body shape look like?

    Skin colors
    What skin color(s) are common on the this race race?

    General height
    How tall is the average this race?

    General weight
    How heavy is the average this race?

    Notable features
    What physical features on a this race are most noticeable?

    Physical variance
    How much variance is there between individuals of the this race race?

    Typical clothing
    What kind of clothing is common with this race individuals?

  • fingerprint Traits
    Strengths
    What are the strengths of this race?

    Weaknesses
    What are the weaknesses of this race?

    Conditions
    What conditions are common with this race?

  • groups Culture
    Famous figures
    This field allows you to link your other Notebook.ai pages to this race.

    Traditions
    What traditions are common with this race's individuals?

    Beliefs
    What beliefs are commonly held by the this race?

    Governments
    What governments are common with the this race?

    Technologies
    What kinds of technologies do the this race societies take advantage of?

    Occupations
    What occupations are common with this race individuals?

    Economics
    What does the economic situation look like for the this race?

    Favorite foods
    What are the most common favorite foods of the this race?

    Traditions
    What traditions are common with this race's individuals?

  • date_range History
    Notable events
    What events are most important to the history of this race?

  • photo_library Gallery

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


    It's great if you have sketches or artwork for your race, 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.

 
Race features

photo_library Upload images to your race


Races 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 races 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 races!

vpn_lock Focus on races 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 races 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 races 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.

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

face Build your race piece by piece with personalized writing prompts


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

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



Our users have created
55,826
races on Notebook.ai


of which,
138
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.

description Smoothly transition from worldbuilding to storytelling


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 races 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 races to the individual scenes that are relevant to them.
  • description Create unlimited documents and link your races to them.
  • description Quickly pull up and reference any aspect of your linked races 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 races to your followers or the world to get comments and feedback.
  • face See in a single place all the timelines, documents, and collections your race is linked to.