Story opens on a plain Story page for free writing. The Beat Board next to it holds acts, sequences, beats and scene cards that you drag until the story works.
Acts are columns, sequences group the scenes, and each card is a short reminder of what happens. Drag a card and an insertion line shows where it will land.
Build Screenplay turns the cards you choose into screenplay scenes. You see a preview first, and your cards stay as they were.
Keep a directory of characters with their details and relationships, and see them on a relationship map. A timeline lays the screenplay scenes out by story day.
Each one with what it does, what it is for, and where it is available.
A plain page for free writing about the story.
Bold, italic, underline, highlight and zoom.
Save the Story page as text, PDF or Word.
Acts, sequences, beats and scene cards in one view.
A short card for each scene.
Smaller story moments between scenes.
Give the story its structure.
Rearrange by dragging.
Move or export a group at once.
A side shelf for cards you are unsure about.
Columns or rows, near or far.
Show only the cards you need.
Choose what each card shows.
The same story as a list.
Turn cards into screenplay scenes.
Reorder the script to match the board.
Deleting an act or sequence asks what to do with its cards.
Save the board as PDF, text or CSV.
A directory of the people in your story.
See every scene for a character.
Avoid creating the same character twice.
Record how characters are connected.
See the cast as a web.
Connect a character to the cards where they matter.
Remove a character safely.
Lay the scenes out in time.
Say which day a scene happens on.
Ideas arrive from the Idea Vault. Built scenes go to the Screenplay, where the writing happens. Scene numbers always come from the screenplay, not the board.
Written guides on the real screens of your platform.
Know what each of the five Story tabs is for.
Write and format free text about your story, in a page that is not linked to anything else.
Save your Story page as a text, PDF or Word file.
Add your first act and scene cards to an empty board.
Fill an act with the pieces of your story.
Write the scene heading, descriptions and notes of a card, colour a beat, and rename a sequence.
Move cards and acts, change the layout and zoom, and filter what you see.
Keep cards and beats you might use later without deleting them, and bring them back.
Select a group of cards and act on them together.
Write a free-form version of your story in a plain page that belongs only to you.
Set the font size, bold, italic, underline and highlight, switch to a dark page and zoom the page.
Save a copy of the Story page as a file you can share or keep.
Find your way around an empty Beat Board before you add anything.
Build the first branch of the story: an act, a sequence inside it and a scene card inside that.
Jot down a story moment that is not yet a scene, or pull an idea from your Idea Vault onto the board.
Understand what the acts, sequences, cards, beats and Parking Lot on a working board mean.
Add a scene heading, a short description, a long description and notes to a scene card.
Add a note, a colour and reference files to a beat.
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