Writer-first planning
The Story Planner helps you move from idea spark to actual story structure.
Use planning methods, guided launcher pages, story dashboards, worldbuilding tools, and a draft inbox without feeling like you wandered into generic admin software.
Plan
Pick a method that matches how developed your idea already is.
Build
Grow the story with chapters, scenes, characters, locations, lore, and timeline.
Finish
Keep structure, notes, and exports tied together instead of scattered everywhere.
Three good ways to start
Browse Methods
See Snowflake, Character-Core, chapter tentpoles, logline work, synopsis work, and cleaner starting points.
Find Your Path
Answer the real question first: what part of the story is fuzzy right now?
Use the Launcher
Walk from spark to structure in a straight line when you need momentum fast.
Your work stays yours
Account-wide story limits
Plans live at the account level. Workspaces organize your stories; they do not pretend to be subscriptions.
Draft Inbox capture
Save loose sparks now and attach them to stories later when they actually belong somewhere.
Story dashboards
Each story gets one command center instead of a mess of disconnected pages.
Method spotlight
Snowflake Planner
Best when you have a concept but need to grow it layer by layer without outlining the whole beast in one sitting.
Open methodMethod spotlight
Character-Core Outline
Best when the real story lives inside the wound, the lie, the want, and the change — not just in external plot moves.
Open methodQuick help
Lost in the middle?
Go back to the synopsis, chapter pressure, and the next hard choice instead of adding random scenes and hoping for mercy.
Read the guideGuides
Useful informational pages
How to build a strong logline
Lead, want, obstacle, stakes. No fluff.
How to write a one-page synopsis
Get the full shape onto one page without drowning in scene-by-scene sludge.
Chapter planning that works
Purpose, complication, hook out. Dead chapters are expensive.
Inside the app
What writers can do here
Story Dashboard
Books, chapters, scenes, characters, locations, lore, timeline, tags, and draft links in one place.
Per-user custom data
Save your own project types, templates, genres, and tags once, then reuse them across stories.
Workspace containers
Sort stories into containers without turning every workspace into a fake billing product.
Recent reviews
Writer
★★★★★
The full-context setup makes it way easier to build a world, track characters, and keep beast-kin politics org...
Writer
★★★★★
The relationship graph and chaos button are immediately useful.
On the roadmap
Scene comments
Threaded editor notes on scenes and chapters.
Improved map marker UI
Drag-and-drop marker placement directly over maps.
Clan template builder
Reusable starting kits for beast-kin clans, laws, hierarchy, borders, and rival houses.
Latest notes
Mar 9, 2026
Added ArcKeep branding updates and a full Book Bear Beast-Kin General seeded project under the user workspace...
Mar 9, 2026
Booktalk launched with stories, characters, worldbuilding, relationship graphs, timelines, chaos prompts, inte...
Start clean
Pick the entry point that matches your brain
No two writers plan the same way. That is the point.