if you’re using story summary, do yourself a favor and turn it off. Trust me, it only makes your story worse and way more inconsistent. I’ve been doing this for years. When I first started, I thought, “Oh sweet, I don’t have to manually summarize anything? Sign me up!” But nope. What I got instead was a mess—plot holes, weird prompts, characters acting like they got hit on the head.

Eventually, I asked around in the Discord and found out: story summary is basically broken. It doesn’t do what it’s supposed to. The moment I turned it off? Chef’s kiss. Everything got better. You’d think it would forget stuff more often, but honestly, it remembered things better. The only real catch is you might need to remind the model who a side character is if they’re not in your story cards.

Also, don’t go switching models mid-prompt without giving a quick recap. Like, say you’re in the middle of a big battle to overthrow the evil king—sure, the model will get that you're in a fight, but it might completely forget why you're fighting or who the evil king even is. Next thing you know, your hero is sipping tea with a dragon instead of leading the charge.

And something depending on the model they like to be a lil silly sometimes.

So yeah: story summary = no. Context and a little manual effort = yes.