Setups, reveals & who knows what
Track every promise to the audience.
Log setups, payoffs, mysteries and secrets as threads with the episode they're planted and paid off in. For secrets, a knowledge matrix shows when the audience learns it and when each character does, which is where dramatic irony lives.
What it does
- Threads are setups, open questions or reveals, each with the episode it is planted in and paid off in, and a status (open, paid off, dropped)
- Open threads are counted so nothing is forgotten at season's end
- A knowledge matrix: for each reveal, the episode the audience learns it and the episode each character does
How to use it
- Setups & reveals → add a thread
- Choose “Reveal / secret” to put it in the knowledge matrix
- Set who learns it in which episode
Step by step
Screenshots of the app, on the sample series. Click one to see it full size.
Setups & reveals tracks every thread you plant and whether it has paid off yet. 
Add a thread; set its status as it pays off. Choose “Reveal / secret” to put it in the knowledge matrix. 
The knowledge matrix: who learns each secret in which episode, so dramatic irony stays straight across the season.