Fall 2025 Update: New Features, Integrations, and Infrastructure
New visualization, analysis, and data tools released this fall
Published December 4, 2025 • 5 min read
Fall focused on strengthening Archivist's core value: turning live game sessions into reliable records and real insight. Major releases this quarter spanned visualization, analytics, compendium expansion, and integrations that make campaign data easier to work with across tools.
We kept three principles at the center of this work:
- High quality notes plus actionable insight — Summaries are foundational. Archivist should help surface participation patterns and relationships that would otherwise stay buried in transcripts.
- Continuous improvement at no added cost — We shipped new features and system upgrades without raising subscription pricing.
- Access anywhere — Campaign data remains portable through integrations and export options on and off Archivist.
New Features
Archivist shipped multiple features that expand how you view, tag, and analyze your campaigns.
- • Items are now sourced during Session Review like other compendium entities.
- • Create and tag items directly from campaign pages with no external setup.
- • Access a dedicated Items tab for organized browsing and filtering.
- • Explore relationship graphs that connect characters, factions, locations, moments, and timeline nodes.
- • Use presets for top entities, single-session analysis, and full-campaign timeline exploration.
- • Switch between structured grid layouts and organic cluster layouts to surface patterns in your story data.
- • Measure participation patterns across Discord sessions including talk share, pacing, longest turns, and sentiment.
- • Track word-level sentiment to visualize tone shifts and emotional pacing across a session.
- • Generate AI insights that highlight key dynamics at the table without reviewing transcripts manually.
Integrations and Developer Tools
These updates support our goal of access anywhere by making it easier to use Archivist data across tools and workflows:
Foundry VTT IntegrationTwo way sync between Archivist and Foundry. Import recaps and your campaign compendium, link entities with custom journal sheets, and use Ask Archivist for real time Q and A inside Foundry.
Obsidian ImporterKeep Obsidian vaults and Archivist campaigns aligned. Import curated Markdown with preserved wikilinks, and export campaigns back to Obsidian ready files for offline editing.
Developer APIA public API for reading and writing world data, managing sessions and recaps, using Ask Archivist for real-time Q&A, and building dashboards, automations, or custom tools that sync Archivist with your systems.
Infrastructure
Under the hood, Archivist made several changes to improve reliability and scale:
- ✓Recording Architecture – The recording pipeline was upgraded to support a much larger number of concurrent sessions while keeping real-time transcription and Ask Archivist available.
- ✓Self-Hosted Speech-to-Text – Speech-to-text now runs on self-hosted GPUs, improving control over performance, reliability, and scaling as more campaigns record through Discord.
- ✓Session Safeguards – New checks prevent wasted credits when no transcript content is captured or a session is started in error, with clear options to void or continue.
UI and UX
Several interface improvements were made to simplify onboarding and streamline routine campaign work:
- ✓Archivist Academy (link) – In-app video guides designed to make onboarding and new feature adoption faster.
- ✓Recap Tab – A dedicated tab that separates campaign summaries from session summaries for clearer long-term story tracking.
- ✓Session Actions Button – A single button that surfaces high-value tools like Cast Analysis and Session Handouts on every session page.
- ✓Floating Toolbar – A universal toolbar across editable fields that handles link management and related cleanup tasks.
- ✓Session Review Enhancements – More control when merging and reclassifying entities, plus faster navigation via jump lists.
Community and Milestones
Alongside product work, fall included several moments that strengthened the Archivist community:
- ✓7,000 Sessions Logged – More than 7,000 game sessions have been recorded through Archivist. We marked the 5,000 session milestone with a community giveaway, celebrating both subscribers and long time supporters.
- ✓Behind the Screen Sessions – Live walkthroughs focused on Data Studio, Cast Analysis, and early Character Arc previews, giving users a direct look at upcoming tools and how they shape campaign insight.
- ✓Discord Improvements – Discussion channels were reorganized to make feature testing, onboarding questions, and support threads easier to navigate.
What's Next
Work continues on long term character tracking, cleaner data separation, and deeper story insight:
- • Character Arc will introduce structured themes, facets, and character timelines
- • The Actions Hub will enable quick navigation across the platform, show pending session reviews, and provide a handful of GM level actions
- • Data Partitioning will separate GM only notes from player facing content so recaps, Ask Archivist, and exports only draw from what should be shared
- • Archivist Academy (link) videos and documentation will support faster onboarding and new feature adoption
If you have not logged a session recently, this is a good time to explore Data Studio or run Cast Analysis on a recent game. You can also import existing notes using the Obsidian integration.
Thank you for being part of the Archivist community.
Here's to the next quarter,
—The Gregs