I have to google every time cause I can never remember which one is doylist and which is watsonian. why cannot we just say ""in-universe" and "meta". pls help me

It's named after the Sherlock Holmes stories which were written by Arthur Conan Doyle and feature John Watson as a narrator. So Watsonian is the in-universe one and Doylist is the out-of-universe one.

oh hell i might actually be able to remember it now, ty :O how have i heard this terminology so much and not heard or realized the origin. i thought doyle and watson were just, like, some Dudes With Opinions