Tool Story Organization Tool & Guide Maker

[Kurotori]

Hey everyone!

I spent a bit of development time on a little side project that's been scratching my own itch. Something that helps me use sticky notes and arrows to organize stories, plot points, and character relationships. It's a fairly simplistic project but I'm putting it out there for anyone who wants to stop looking at giant Word documents.

Fret not because you can look at a giant PNG instead. ​

What Can You Do With It?

• Drop sticky notes anywhere on an infinite canvas
• Connect them with different arrows to show relationships and story flow
• Different note types - headers, regular notes, paragraphs
• Drag and drop images
• Color coding for organization
• Export as high-res PNG so you can print it or share it

Built it because I was drowning in Word docs trying to track character arcs and plot threads. Turns out what I wanted was simple: digital sticky notes + arrows + infinite space.

It's completely free.
I've put it up on

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. Great for organizing stories, creating guides/paths for stories that have elements of choice.

Here are some screenshots of what it looks like and what it can do!

Create new boards!


Edit your notes and connect them however you'd like!


Export your stories/boards/guides as PNG files!


That's it, pretty simple and neat! ❤

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[The_Sanka]

Really cool tool! Only suggestion is to make the background have a dark mode toggle. It hurts my eyes after using it for a while lol

 

[allallure]

Oh my... Nah... I can't believe you! Kurotori, this is absolutely AWESOME!!!!
And on a personal level... pretty hilarious too.

Truth is, it was just some months ago that I finally decided to purchase the PRO vs of STARC (StoryArchitect) after years failing miserably to find any other similar tool that would really convince me (apart from the insanely expensive and hollywood-production-focused HCW Causality).

STARC offers a lot of useful functions for story telling. I love it, and I won't regret purchasing it, since it helped me confirm I want to focus on storytelling. I even made my writing there Renpy-ready. The point is, my main reason to leave the free vs and become pro were the card outlining and the different mind mapping capabilities it offers. But sadly, they are all separated from the rest: you get to do simple mind-maps, like the ones you could make in Draw.io and specific maps for the relations between the different characters and the locations on your story. And more importantly, a card view of the outline of your novel...

But again, they are all separated from each other, and very sadly, they are still very limited in functionality and quite buggy (they are improving it, but months ago I would get CTDs like crazy, just from moving things around a map...)

So I didn't need more than a quick view on what you are offering here, to appreciate it's huge potential and convenience.
Come on! You can even just drag & drop pics!

I have to say the moment I executed it I noticed one thing that I would really love to be modified... that being adding the possibility to make it fullscreen (at least in my Win10 it is not possible). Or even better: "Windowed". But that is just me and my "writing focus obsession". That aside, as you may have noticed, I am really excited about it! And I will be testing it further for the next days.

For now, my sincere congratulations on such a nice work, and thanks a lot for sharing it for free!!!
If I end up using it in my workflow, some donation will be more than justified!

 

[Kurotori]

Drag and drop pics was a tough cookie to crack but it worked out! Thanks for your kind words. Yeah the freedom to just make notes and connect them is so liberating when planning anything. I had one guy download it and tell me he's using it for his DND story planning. I'll also try to find time to make a few updates to it like a dark mode and such!

No need to donate, I made it with the intent of it being totally free. Good luck with your projects!

 

[allallure]

That is very kind and generous from you!
And yes, a dark mode and a window maximization feature / a 1920x1080 redimensioning / resolution selection would be pretty convenient.

My thanks and congratulations once more!