Read & Keep (Journal System) - RPG Maker MZ

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Bring your game's lore to life

Read & Keep gives your players a dedicated place to read and revisit the information they discover throughout your game.

Turn ordinary inventory items into persistent, readable documents — from ancient books and personal diaries to emails, letters, clues and investigation records.

What can you create?

• Journals & Diaries — personal notes, memories and story entries.
• Codexes & Lorebooks — world lore, characters, history and discoveries.
• Investigation Records — clues, evidence and important information.
• Emails & Documents — modern documents and long-form text.
• Books, Letters & Notes — readable items that remain available to the player.

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Features

Visual Web Editor

Create and customize your documents through a visual editor without manually editing configuration files.

Two Reading Modes

Choose between Paginated reading for books and journals, or Continuous reading for emails and long documents.

Customize the Experience

Customize fonts, backgrounds, text outlines, margins, window skins, opacity, buttons and other visual elements to match your game's style.

Works With Your Inventory

Readable documents can be linked directly to Items in the RPG Maker MZ database.

Dynamic Documents

Use plugin commands to update documents during gameplay and create information that changes as the player progresses.

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Design your documents visually and preview how they will look in-game.

1. Install Read & Keep in your RPG Maker MZ project.
2. Open the Visual Web Editor during playtest.
3. Create your journals and customize their appearance.
4. Link them to your database items.
5. Let your players discover and revisit them throughout the game.

Link an item to a journal

Add the following tag to the item's Note field:

<WN_Journal>

The document can then be accessed through the corresponding item in the player's inventory.

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License

License

- This plugin is a paid software product. A valid license must be purchased from this page before using it in any project. 

- A single license permits use in both commercial and non-commercial games, subject to the terms of the license. 

- You may modify the plugin's source code for use in your own projects. However, you may not redistribute, share, publish, sub-license, or sell the plugin, whether in its original or modified form. 

- The plugin may not be included or redistributed as part of another plugin, software package, asset pack, or similar product. 

- Credit "Wesley Nascimento" in your game's credits. 

- By using this plugin, you agree to the applicable license terms.

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Feedback & Support

Found a bug, have a suggestion, or need help setting something up?

Feel free to leave a comment on this page. When reporting an issue, please include as much information as possible.

Your feedback helps make Read & Keep better for everyone.

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