Winter 2026 Update: Character Arc, Action Hub, Journals, and Archie
Player growth tracking, centralized navigation, cleaner knowledge boundaries, and new Session Review Assistant tools
Published February 27, 2026 • 3 min read
This winter we touched almost every part of Archivist. We cleaned up navigation, simplified common tasks, and added tools that make long campaigns easier to manage.
- Players: Character Arc gives each player a clear history of how their character has changed over time.
- Navigation: Action Hub puts common tasks in one place, so you spend less time clicking around.
- Session Cleanup: Archie helps you make corrections once and apply them consistently, with review-before-apply control.
- Knowledge Boundaries: Journals keep prep, secrets, and personal notes private unless you explicitly share them.
New Features
Why it matters: As campaigns get bigger, it gets easier to lose track of what is private, what is canon, and where to go next. These updates are meant to reduce that overhead.
- • Keep GM prep, private notes, and shared campaign info in separate places.
- • Ask Archivist now follows those visibility rules more reliably.
- • Makes long-running campaigns easier to organize.
- • Gives players a running record of character growth.
- • Helps reconnect after breaks between sessions.
- • Makes important story beats easier to revisit.
- • Archie is our Session Review Assistant, with a copilot-style UI for confirming canon changes.
- • Includes retcon tools so you can make edits once and keep them consistent across the session.
- • More integrated review tools are coming soon.
- • Brings common campaign tasks into one menu for owners and admins.
- • Reduces hunting for tools during prep and session management.
- • Makes next steps easier to spot in complex campaigns.
Platform Improvements
- •Cleaner entity page layouts
- •Property Tables across Characters, Items, Locations, and Factions
- •Integrated timeline context within entity and session pages
- •More information-dense timeline editing experience
Why it matters: You can understand connections faster, spend less time jumping between views, and review continuity without digging through multiple tabs.
Community & Operations
Survey responses were clear: Session Recaps, Timeline, and the Compendium are still the most valued parts of Archivist. The biggest pain point is still entity accuracy and understanding how entities connect, which shaped Archie and the upcoming Quest Log.
On the reliability side, we passed 10,000 sessions logged and have continually set new records for concurrent sessions processed.
We are continuing to refine output tone, remove subjective phrasing, and improve entity extraction overall.
We'll keep improving the tools so you can spend more time telling stories with your friends.
Thank you to everyone who shared feedback and helped shape what comes next.
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More soon,
-The Gregs