Summer 2025 Update: Smarter, Faster, and More Than Just a Summarizer

It's been a huge summer for Archivist. Over the last three months, we've focused on improving the core quality of the experience—with major upgrades as recent as mid-August—while also rolling out new tools that give you more ways to build, explore, and share your campaigns.

Core Quality Improvements

We've doubled down on quality at our core, making Archivist faster and more reliable:

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Overall Accuracy Improvements – Backend upgrades in mid-August improved the reliability of session reviews, including sharper character attribution (who said and did what).
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Enhanced Find & Replace – Now integrated directly into Session Review, making it much easier to adjust names, terms, or recurring phrases across your campaign.
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Ask Archivist – Smarter, more reliable Q&A with better context recall.
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Moments Reimagined – Richer highlights, now with transcript quotes.
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Faster Session Reviews – Sessions now process in ~10 minutes.

New Features

Archivist is more than just a summarizer, with fresh tools and capabilities that expand how you can build and explore your campaigns:

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Campaign Timeline – Navigate your story's chronology across three levels of granularity: Steps, Minor Beats, and Major Beats.
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History & Lore – Add world context into Archivist to expand your campaign's knowledge base beyond what happens during your sessions.
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Raw Notes Uploads – Drop in messy notes and instantly convert them into structured details.
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Expanded Customization Options – Nearly every output in Archivist can now be tuned to your preferred style.
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Tagging (Beta) – Released this week: wiki-style inline tags for characters, factions, locations, and moments.

Campaign Timeline with Entity Tags

Sharing Capabilities

Ways you can share your story with players and friends:

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Campaign Sharing + Highlights – Publish campaigns or sessions as public pages, viewable by anyone without login required. Check out our Campaign Gallery! We're also featuring select campaigns on our landing page and social media.
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Session Handouts – Generate clean 2-page handouts that include: recaps, highlights, important items, valuable information, party status, and more. Three visual themes are available today.
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Digital Trading Cards – Create custom cards for characters, factions, and locations—a fun way to showcase and share your world. First theme live now, with more styles releasing soon.

Community & Milestones

Survey Results

Users are saving 30+ minutes per session on average—and using that time to engage more deeply at the table and in prep.

Your feedback directly shapes the roadmap: Tagging is live today, and Player Arcs are next.

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Q&A Video Series – Both our Top 10 Questions and Feature Overview FAQ videos are now available.
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Behind the Screen – We've hosted several live Discord sessions, both topic-focused and open office hours. We'll continue these regularly to stay connected with you.
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Session Packs & Gifting – Bulk text-only packs, add-on campaigns, and gift subscriptions now available.

What's Next

Ready to Explore?

Archivist has grown a lot this summer. If it's been a while since you last logged in, now's the perfect time to jump back in—explore the Timeline, try tagging, generate a handout, or share your campaign publicly.

Jump Back Into Archivist

Pick one feature you haven't tried yet and see how it levels up your game. And with Player Arcs on the horizon, there's plenty more ahead.

Here's to the next adventure,
—The Gregs

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