Cards

Cards are a fun and technically redundant way to share lorebooks and their attached biases in NovelAI. You can just import and export .lorebook files as you please, but also have the option to "hide" this data in a PNG image file.

Cards are the window into our collective souls. Check the Lore Repositories for them.

=What is this?= Cards are a cutesie way to exchange lorebooks and lorebook accessoiries. They look fancy and are widely "standardized" in their use because some generous soul made a card generator and even shared the assets in a .psd file (same link).

With most cards you get a title / name for what it does, a subcategorisation and the Token-Count (all put in manually by the user so it's subject to being outdated / wrong).

=How does it work?= The folks at NovelAI use the masterful art of steganography to hide data at the end of a PNG file in such a way that the image and the data itself are unchanged and can be separated again - if you know what you're doing.

Luckily, the devs at NAI do know what they are doing. Most of the time

= Where can I find cards? = In the threads. Also by checking the Lore Repositories.

=How do I use a Card?= First, open up NovelAI. Make sure you have a story loaded, even if it's an empty one. Then use drag-and-drop, the universal Import button at the bottom of the story list sidebar or the import lorebook button in the lorebook submenu. You will get a popup confirming a successful import, failure or that you maybe even have one or more entries already imported.

= How do I make a card? = In the lorebook submenu there is a tiny "placeholder image" image with a +, the third button in the heading of the sidebar. It lets you add all of your lorebooks into a PNG file.

That's great, but I want only one entry to make it into my card.
Okay, so click on the Check-mark next to the filter and the search, select your Entry and THEN click on the new Image export button. Before the latest UI overhaul the sidebar simply had a "export to png" option. Simpler times.

= How do I make a card PNG? = If you don't know how to use photoshop this card generator is your go-to. If you can't use that ask an adult for help.

Check Card Creation for some extra details and links.

= How do I share a card? =

Why is this a question? You can just up-
No. You can't just upload files with embedded data onto the thread. It's technically against the TOS and may or may not get scraped by default. Use catbox or other easy upload sites. That way your cards can also be added to the card rentries and such.