Story structure and worldbuilding software that stays linked to your draft

Scenaloom's story structure tools — outline, beat board, scene board and story bible — sit in the same project as the script and read from it. Scenes come from your scene headings, so the plan and the pages describe the same story.

An outline beside the script

You get a place to plan each episode in prose before or while you draft. The outline is rich text, one per episode, so a feature has one and a series has one for every episode.

Because it lives in the project, Scenaloom AI can read it when you pick the outline as a scope, and you can export it whenever someone asks for a document that tells the story start to finish.

Beat sheets from story structures

You can start a beat board from a familiar shape instead of a blank page. Pick a three-act structure, a fifteen-beat sheet or a hero's journey, and each beat is placed at its usual share of the target length — 110 pages unless you set another.

With the default 110-page target, for example, a midpoint placed at half the story sits around page 55. The beats give you a shape to write toward, and you can move away from it whenever the story asks.

The story map then shows the script against that target and marks pages past it in red, so an overlong act is visible while there is still time to cut. The board is covered in outline and beats; for the craft behind it, read the beat sheet guide.

Scene board, scene list and story canvas

You see every scene at once, as cards or as rows. The scene board shows scenes as cards; the scene list is a sortable table you can export. Both come from scene headings, so a new INT. or EXT. line in the script is a new scene on the board.

• An episode board for series, to see a season at a glance.
• A story canvas in novel projects, with cards, links between them, grouping and undo.

Worldview: worldbuilding software for your story bible

You get one place for the facts the story depends on. Worldview holds entries such as the logline, the core issue and any custom entries you add, with templates such as Short drama and Feature film to start from.

Scenaloom AI reads these entries for context, so a rule written once — nobody leaves the island after dark — informs the notes you get later. More in Worldview and knowledge.

A knowledge base from your own files

You can keep reference material inside the project instead of a separate folder. Upload .txt, .md, .fountain, .csv, .json, .pdf or .docx files up to 10 MB each, with PDFs up to 200 pages: a source novel, research or a set of notes. You choose which files the assistant may read.

A series writer might upload the network's notes and the previous season's episode list; a novelist adapting their own book might upload the manuscript as a PDF and point the assistant at the chapter they are turning into a scene.

Export outlines, beat sheets and scene lists

Your planning work leaves the app in useful shapes. Export outlines and beat sheets as documents, and scene lists as CSV sheets in UTF-8 that open in Excel or Google Sheets.

Why linked structure matters

A plan kept in a separate file goes stale the first time you move a scene. In Scenaloom the scene board and scene list are read from the draft, so cutting a scene in the script removes it from the board, and adding one adds a card. You spend the time on the story, not on keeping two documents in agreement.

Structure tools are included on every plan. Start a project and add your beats on day one.