Getting Started

Story Teller is the fiction-writing mode of Omni Core, a desktop application you install and run yourself. This page walks you through installing it, understanding how it runs locally, licensing, and creating your first story.

Installing Omni Core

Story Teller ships inside the Omni Core desktop app. Download the installer for your platform and run it — on Windows this is a standard installer that puts Omni Core in your Start menu. The app is self-contained: it includes everything it needs to run, including its own local backend.

Windows is the fully productionized build today. macOS and Linux packages are on the way.

How Omni Core runs on your machine

Omni Core is local-first. When you launch it, the app quietly starts a small local server on your own computer — the Kura engine — that does all the memory, search, and AI-orchestration work. Nothing about your story leaves your machine to reach Nandeshou.

• Your manuscript, notes, characters, world, and timeline are stored on your computer — in a local database and in plain Markdown files you can find on disk.
• The local engine listens only to the app itself, on your own machine. It is not reachable from the network.
• The one exception is the AI model. Story Teller needs a language model to help you write, and you choose which one — see Settings & AI Configuration . If you point it at a model that runs on your own machine, everything stays on-device; if you point it at a cloud provider, the text of your prompts is sent to that provider. See Search, Memory & Privacy for exactly what stays local and what does not.

Free tier, licenses, and the trial

Omni Core starts on a free tier the first time you open it. The free tier lets you try the product with modest limits — one project, one story, a few chapters and scenes, and a capped number of topics.

To unlock the full product you register a license key in Settings. Story Teller’s own product is Story Teller Pro, which lifts the manuscript limits (unlimited stories, parts, chapters, and scenes) and keeps the in-editor Document Assistant available.

• Registering any valid license also starts a 30-day trial of the Document Assistant (the AI writing help inside the editor), even if your license does not include Story Teller Pro. After 30 days the assistant stops unless you hold a Story Teller Pro (or bundle) license.
• The free, unregistered tier does not include the Document Assistant — register a key to begin the trial.

See Licensing & Trial for the full breakdown of tiers, limits, and what each license unlocks.

Creating your first story

Stories live inside a fiction project. When you first open Omni Core:

1. Create or open a fiction project (see Projects & Workspaces ). Stories can only be created in a fiction project; a general knowledge project cannot hold one.
2. Open the Story Teller panel from the left sidebar and create a new story. The only thing you must provide is a title; genre and a synopsis are optional and can be added later.
3. Omni Core sets up your story for you: it creates the manuscript tree (your first Part, Chapter, and Scene) and a starter set of story-element topics — Timeline, World, Characters, and Places — ready for you to fill in.

From here you can start writing scenes, sketch your characters and world, and let the assistant help — the rest of this documentation covers each of those in turn.

A tour of the main areas

Related pages

• Projects & Workspaces — the fiction project that holds your story
• Licensing & Trial — tiers, limits, and the Document Assistant trial
• Search, Memory & Privacy — what stays on your machine