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Entity tracking: auto-detect + detail panel
Last updated June 4, 2026 · 3 min read
Mid-draft, want to know which chapters "J. Doe" appears in and who they're connected to? That's the Related entities panel. It's not search — it's a character / location index Slima builds automatically as you write.
Open the Related entities panel
The "Related entities" icon in the middle of the left activity bar. The panel opens on the editor's right. (There's no keyboard shortcut for this panel.)
Auto-detection: just type the name
No manual tagging needed. Type a character / location name right in the text and Slima indexes and auto-detects it as you write. Detected names get a dashed underline in the text; Ctrl/Cmd + click jumps to that entity's file.
The panel footer shows index status: "Index ready · N entities." Before you've written anything it prompts "entities will be auto-detected once you start writing."
What the panel shows
The content follows the file you currently have open:
- This file mentions: which other entities (characters / locations…) this file references
- Mentioned in: if the open file is a character / location, which files reference it (an empty state reads "not yet mentioned in other files")
- Aliases: the entity's aliases (e.g. "J. Doe / Joe / JD" all mean the same person)
- Relationships: connections to other entities
Click any item → jump to that file / position.
Making detection sharper
If you create "Characters" / "Locations" files in the Notes folder whose names match the names in your manuscript, Slima is more confident those are entities rather than ordinary nouns.
How it relates to the map and the AI
- For a visual node / edge view of character relationships → Relationship Map
- For an AI whole-chapter consistency check (people / places / time / objects) → that's the AI consistency analysis, not this panel