Field notes
We are building a pocket reader and a pocket tavern. These are the potholes, trade-offs, and field tests we hit along the way — written by the people doing the work.
Four real ways to get SillyTavern on a phone in 2026 — Termux on Android, a cloud VPS, LAN access to your PC, or a native tavern-style app. Costs, trade-offs, and what survives the migration.
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AI roleplay memory loss isn't a bug, it's architecture: context windows, summary compression, and platform-owned history. What lorebooks, character cards, and on-device chat libraries actually fix — and what they can't.
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How character cards really work: data hidden in PNG tEXt chunks, what each spec generation added (alternate greetings, character books, v3 assets), why cards break in transit, and a distribution checklist for creators.
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BYOK has become a checkbox word. The real definition: your key stays on your device and requests go straight to the provider. Here are the red flags, the three-step verification, and how key storage should work on a phone.
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Why the reroll button quietly ruins AI-assisted fiction: destructive generation, lost alternatives, sunk-cost plotting. Branching — version control for narrative — keeps every draft alive and makes long stories coherent.
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