Writers & content creators
Turn a collection of ideas into a story.
Gather the fragments, find the thread, and give your story a structure you can move around.
Get the fragments in one place.
Ideas arrive in the wrong order and in the wrong places: a line in a notes app, a source in a browser tab, an image saved to your phone. A Grein board holds all of it, so you can see what you have before deciding what it is.
Add notes, links, images, and audio as they come. Link cards pull in the page title and a preview, so you can tell your sources apart at a glance.
Outline with pieces you can move.
Make a card for each beat, section, or episode and put them in order. Stack the supporting research with each beat in a composite block, and it moves with the beat when you restructure, instead of being cut and pasted across a forty-page document.
The Story development template gives you a place to start: prompts for logline, theme, and tone, notes on what each character wants and needs, five story beats, and a scene bank for moments you haven’t placed yet.
Test an angle before you commit to it.
On Pro, the AI creative partner reads what’s on your board and can suggest angles, outline options, or counterarguments as notes you keep or delete. On desktop, you can connect your own Claude or ChatGPT account instead.
The drafting still happens in your writing app. Grein is for the work before and around the draft: the research, the structure, and the notes that keep both within reach.
Questions, answered.
Yes. Add notes for scenes or sections, arrange them on the board, and keep source links and images nearby. Use nested boards for longer chapters or episodes.
Most writers don’t. Grein is strongest before and around the draft: research, structure, and notes. Keep the manuscript in your writing app and link to it from the board.
Yes. Use one project for the series and a nested board for each episode or installment, with recurring characters and themes on the main board.
Workflows for this kind of work
Visual research
Put sources and insights side by side so you can follow the thinking, not just collect the files.
Read the guideBrainstorming
Capture the rough ideas, make connections, and choose a direction worth exploring.
Read the guideProject planning
Give the brief, research, and every deliverable a place in one visual project workspace.
Read the guide
Create your first
board.
Start with a few references. Bring people in when it’s ready.