Desktop App
Syncing Studio with the web platform
Studio stores your data in a local SQLite database. Sync moves data between that database and your Stream Facility web account. It is always manually triggered — nothing moves in the background.
Where to sync
Open the sync page from the left sidebar: Dashboard → Sync. It shows the last pull and push timestamps and a per-collection count of everything stored locally.
Pull: downloading from the platform
Pull replaces your entire local database with the current state of your web account. It is a full snapshot, not an incremental merge:
- The local copy of each collection is cleared
- The platform's current data is inserted in its place
- The last-pull timestamp is recorded
Pull is the right choice after making changes on the web — adding characters, restructuring a draft, updating the world calendar.
Note: Any local-only changes you have not pushed yet will be overwritten by a pull. Push your scenes first if you've been writing offline.
Push: uploading scenes to the platform
Push sends your locally written scene content to the web platform. Only scene content (prose and word count) is pushed — draft structure, Codex entities, and world data are read-only offline and always come from the platform via Pull.
If the same scene was edited in both places, your local version wins (last-write-wins).
What syncs
All 24 platform collections are included in a Pull:
Worlds, Series, Books, Characters, Locations, Items, Creatures, Organizations, Concepts, Lore, Governments, Magic Systems, Languages, Religions, Regions, Planes, Eras, World Events, Timeline Events, Entity Pages, Story Drafts, Story Acts, Story Chapters, Story Scenes
What doesn't sync
- Images — Cloudinary CDN URLs are stored and display normally, but images are not downloaded to your device. Local image caching is planned for a future update.
- Beta campaign management — web only
- Reviews and reader activity — web only
- Subscription and billing — web only
Offline use
After a Pull, the full dashboard works with no internet connection. You can write, browse the Codex, plan structure, and use AI features. Sync again when you're back online.