Scriptyard is a spatial story-planning tool built for screenwriters and storytellers. Map characters, locations, scenes and structure on an infinite canvas, then export to Markdown, Fountain, or Final Draft.
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The Fountain and Final Draft export is the smart part here — most visual planning tools quietly trap your work inside their own canvas. When you export, does the spatial structure you've laid out (scene order, act breaks) carry through into the linear script, or does it flatten to a plain doc and leave you re-sequencing by hand?
@lennoxbeflying The spatial aspect can’t be contained within the Fountain and FDX export (due to those format limitations) so I recommend saving the native JSON file additionally, which contains everything. Then you could reorder and reexport. What workflow are you imagining to go back and forth?
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This used to be our Design Whiteboarding assignment - A platform for writers to draft stories. I dig the no login vibe but generally writing is collaboration, feedback and approvals. Have a strong encryption and have optional login.
@roopesh_donde Since this isn’t a project that’s monetized at all (nor ever will be) I wanted to wait and see how much of an issue this was for people. I think I might make something like a Google Drive integration so people can share access through their own space and still not need to share anything with my server. Thanks for taking the time try it and write to me!
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@minimal_human Yes, that will work too. I managed design for writing apps for 3+ years, and one of our repetitive requests was a structured, collaborative writer for academic projects with reference to other projects. Like movie/show scripts are sequels or continuations of shows, ideas like callbacks or referencing other events regularly came up in the session. BTW, kudos on the launch.
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finally a spatial tool that gets how my brain works during outlining — the infinite canvas for threading scenes and character arcs feels like it was made by someone who has actually wrestled with outlining before. exporting to fountain and final draft is the cherry on top.
@yeimr6oi I’m really happy to read this! Make something cool!
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Pinned my characters and locations to a canvas and the export to Fountain actually kept my scene structure intact. Wish I'd had this during my last rewrite.
@hamdiderinwvuu I’m glad it’s working for you, thanks for trying it out.
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There is something about a wall of index cards that no outline ever quite replaces, so seeing that feeling recreated digitally really appeals to me. Knowing the whole story stays on my own device makes it even easier to trust.
@raphael_kamm thanks for the kind words! Let me know how it works for you or if there’s a further need it could meet. Cheers!
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@chris_smallfield that makes sense, avoiding data collection is a real tradeoff worth keeping even if it means shared work is more manual for now. a lightweight drive integration where you just point it at a folder would probably cover most of the writers-room use case without you having to host anything yourself.
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the infinite canvas approach is honestly such a smart call for outlining scripts visually, beats cramming everything into folders or cards. also love that it exports to fountain without making you jump through hoops
The Fountain and Final Draft export is the smart part here — most visual planning tools quietly trap your work inside their own canvas. When you export, does the spatial structure you've laid out (scene order, act breaks) carry through into the linear script, or does it flatten to a plain doc and leave you re-sequencing by hand?
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@minimal_human Yes, that will work too. I managed design for writing apps for 3+ years, and one of our repetitive requests was a structured, collaborative writer for academic projects with reference to other projects. Like movie/show scripts are sequels or continuations of shows, ideas like callbacks or referencing other events regularly came up in the session. BTW, kudos on the launch.
finally a spatial tool that gets how my brain works during outlining — the infinite canvas for threading scenes and character arcs feels like it was made by someone who has actually wrestled with outlining before. exporting to fountain and final draft is the cherry on top.
Scriptyard
Pinned my characters and locations to a canvas and the export to Fountain actually kept my scene structure intact. Wish I'd had this during my last rewrite.
Scriptyard
There is something about a wall of index cards that no outline ever quite replaces, so seeing that feeling recreated digitally really appeals to me. Knowing the whole story stays on my own device makes it even easier to trust.
Scriptyard
@chris_smallfield that makes sense, avoiding data collection is a real tradeoff worth keeping even if it means shared work is more manual for now. a lightweight drive integration where you just point it at a folder would probably cover most of the writers-room use case without you having to host anything yourself.
the infinite canvas approach is honestly such a smart call for outlining scripts visually, beats cramming everything into folders or cards. also love that it exports to fountain without making you jump through hoops
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