DOCUMENT TO PROJECT BOARD
Drop the document.
Keep it afterwards.
Most tools read your PDF once, generate a board and throw the document away. Storyflow lays the plan out around the file and leaves it on the canvas, so a week later you can still ask whether the plan matches what the document actually said. Plans from $7.99 a month billed annually, with a free plan before the end of 2026.
From $7.99/month annual
Free plan coming 2026
Works in your browser
Used by creative professionals at:
Artlist
Pixar
Nike
Red Bull
The North Face
Porsche
Start from a ready-made template
Pick a board to see what you can build, then let AI fill it in. Every template is a real, editable starting point on the same infinite canvas.
Mind Map
Branch one central idea out into themes and sub-points, then drag the connections around until the structure makes sense.
What does document to project board mean?
Turning a document into a project board is the step where a PDF, brief, treatment or research pack becomes something a team can work from. The document describes what needs doing; the board is the version people can move, assign and argue with. Doing it by hand is slow, and doing it badly loses the detail that made the document worth writing.
Tools approach this in one of three ways. Extraction pulls action items out and turns them into cards, which suits a requirements list and produces nonsense on a brief. Summarisation compresses the document into structured bullets, which is lossy by design: the one sentence that later turns out to matter is exactly the sentence a summary drops. Reference lays the document onto the canvas and builds the board around it, keeping everything.
Storyflow works in reference mode. Drag a PDF, a link, a set of images or several files at once onto the board, describe what you want, and the AI lays out the plan next to the source. Because Storyflow's AI reads the whole active board plus up to three Tactics, five documents and three boards, the document stays part of the context rather than becoming a one-time input.
Storyflow is paid-only during early access; plans start at $7.99 per month billed annually, priced flat per account rather than per seat. A free plan launches before the end of 2026, and anyone a paid member invites to a board joins free today.
HOW IT WORKS
From a PDF to a working board in four steps.
No import wizard, no field mapping. Drag the file on and describe what you want.
01
Open a canvas
Storyflow runs in the browser, so a document that arrives at 9am can be a board by 9:10 with nothing to install.
02
Drop the document on
Drag a PDF, a link, images or several files together. They land on the canvas as material rather than disappearing into an importer.
03
AI builds the plan around it
Objectives, deliverables, references and a schedule are laid out next to the source, built from what the document actually contains.
04
Ask it about the document later
The file stays on the board, so questions about intent are answered from the document rather than from an AI summary of it.
The document stays part of the project.
Everything contested later lives in the source, not in the cards that were generated from it.
Several files as one context
Drop the whole research pack at once
PDFs, links, images and notes can all land on the same canvas, and the AI reads them together instead of one import at a time.
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A plan built around the source
Get a board, not a bullet list
Deliverables and milestones arrive as cards you can rearrange on a canvas, positioned next to the part of the document they came from.
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The source stays readable to the AI
Check the plan against the document in week three
Ask whether the current plan still matches the brief and the AI answers from both, because both are still on the board it reads.
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One link for whoever sent the document
Show them how it was read
Share a view-only link so the person who wrote the document can see the interpretation before work starts, with no account needed.
Turn a brief into a board →Plans from $7.99/month annual. Free plan coming late 2026.
Drop a document and watch the plan build itself around it. Storyflow is paid-only during early access, with a free plan coming before the end of 2026 and invited collaborators joining free today.
Every document gets its own board, with no project limit
AI reads the whole board, source document included
200+ tactics on Plus, Pro and Max
Flat account pricing rather than per seat
WHY REFERENCE MODE
More than a PDF importer.
Extracting tasks from a document is easy and every tool does it. Keeping the document usable afterwards is the part that decides whether the plan holds.
Built around the file, not from it
Nothing is discarded at import
The source stays on the canvas: The document remains visible and readable, so no part of the project depends on the AI having summarised it correctly first time.
Detail survives: The specific constraint buried on page four is still there when it turns out to matter, instead of having been compressed away.
Re-prompt against the original: Change your mind about scope and the AI rebuilds from the document, not from its own earlier output.
Handles what documents actually contain
Prose, images and links together
Reference images: Drop the visual material next to the text instead of embedding it where the AI cannot read it.
Links and video: Pin URLs and grab frames from YouTube or Vimeo references onto the same board as the written direction.
Multiple documents: A brief plus a research deck plus a transcript can all inform one plan, read as a single context.
Honest about the limits
What it will not do
It will not fix a vague document: A board built from a vague brief inherits the vagueness. It does make the gaps visible, which is usually faster than rereading the document.
Generated dates are placeholders: No tool knows how long your team takes. Use the structure and set the dates yourself.
Scanned files need a text layer: A document with no extractable text is an image, and no tool in this category reads it well.
Fits around the tracker you run
Covers the step before the tickets
Keep your pipeline: Storyflow runs no tasks, approvals or time tracking, so delivery stays in Asana, ClickUp or whatever you already use.
Export when it travels: Any board goes out as a high-quality image or PDF when the plan has to leave the canvas.
Stakeholders read a link: No sign-up needed to view, so approval does not wait on account creation.
Explore templates for your project
Every template opens as a real, editable board on the infinite canvas. Pick the closest fit and make it your own.
Mind Map
Branch one central idea out into themes and sub-points, then drag the connections around until the structure makes sense.
COMPARE APPROACHES
Reference mode versus extraction mode.
Every tool builds a plausible board on day one. The difference is what it can tell you on day fourteen.
Storyflow
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Images and links alongside the text
Assigns tasks and tracks time
Taskade
Source document stays readable to the AI
Several files read as one context
Images and links alongside the text
Assigns tasks and tracks time
Notion
Source document stays readable to the AI
Several files read as one context
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ClickUp
Source document stays readable to the AI
Several files read as one context
Images and links alongside the text
Assigns tasks and tracks time
What creators are saying
Join early creators getting structured workspaces and AI that remembers their projects
“Storyflow has sped up my workflow by at least 3x, which means more flow state and more projects I can actually ship. It truly changed the way me and my team create.”
Reilin Joey
Director & YouTuber
“One prompt gets me a structured board. But the tactics are my favorite. I run my YouTube scripts through them and my intros and retention got better. It's amazing.”
Justkay
YouTuber & Freelance Filmmaker
“I used to juggle five apps to plan a project. Now I describe what I am making and get boards, lists, and a schedule. All in one place.”
George
@fernwehchronicles
Document to project board, answered.
What people ask before turning a document into a board in Storyflow.
Storyflow is the best option when the document is creative material such as a brief, treatment or research pack, because the file stays on the canvas as readable context after the board is generated. Taskade is the most direct PDF-to-project converter if you want a task list, and ClickUp is the better choice when the resulting board needs assignees, dates and a delivery pipeline.
Keep the document after the board exists.
Drop a PDF and get a plan built around it, on a canvas that still remembers what the document said. Plans from $7.99 a month billed annually.