SHORTS PLANNER
One video is easy.
Thirty a month is the problem.
Short-form does not fail on any single video. It fails on volume and consistency. Storyflow puts the idea bank, the hook variations, the scripts, and the status of every short on one infinite canvas, with AI that can see the whole channel. Paid-only during early access, plans from $9.99 a month, and a Free plan launches before the end of 2026.
Plans from $9.99/mo
Free plan coming late 2026
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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.
YouTube Plan
Plan a video from hook to outline to shot list, with references and thumbnail ideas sitting right beside it.
What is a shorts planner?
A shorts planner is a tool for running a pipeline of short vertical videos, not for planning one. The unit of work in short-form is never a single video. It is a month of them, twenty or thirty pieces moving through the same stages at slightly different speeds, some still a half-formed idea, some scripted and waiting for a filming day, some shot and stuck in the edit. The job of the planner is to hold all of that at once and tell you, in a glance, what is blocked and what you are filming on Saturday.
This is why the document-per-video habit breaks. One doc per video is fine at four videos a month. At thirty it becomes thirty tabs, and the questions you actually need answered stop being answerable: which of these still needs a hook, how many are ready to film, have I written three variations of the same idea without noticing, do I have enough in the bank to survive a week where nothing gets made. A folder cannot answer any of those. Neither can a calendar, because a calendar only shows you the thing on the day it ships, not the six stages that had to happen before it.
The craft pressure sits in a different place too. In long-form the first thirty seconds decide whether someone stays. In short-form the first two seconds decide, and there is no title, no thumbnail, and no patience to buy you time. That makes the hook the single highest-leverage sentence you will write all week, which is why serious creators write ten of them per video and pick one, and why a loop or a clean payoff at the end matters more than production quality anywhere in the middle. A planner that gives you one text field for a title is not built for that.
Running short-form properly means moving every video through six named stages: the idea bank (a standing surplus of premises so you never open the week empty), the hook (ten variations written and compared, not one written and shipped), the script (the beat-by-beat spoken line, timed to length, with the payoff placed), the shot plan (what you point the camera at for each beat, grouped so you can batch several videos into one filming day), the edit notes (cuts, captions, b-roll, the loop back to frame one), and publish and review (which platform, when, and what the retention graph said afterwards so the next batch is better). Storyflow keeps all six stages visible for every video at the same time, which is the only way a pipeline of thirty stays legible.
HOW IT WORKS
From an empty week to a batch you can film.
No database to configure and no template per video. Describe the channel and start filling the pipeline.
01
Open a canvas
Sign up in seconds, from $9.99 a month. No download. Your infinite planning canvas opens in the browser.
02
Build the idea bank
Describe your niche, your audience, and what has worked so far. The AI lays out a board of premises grouped by angle, so the bank starts full instead of empty.
03
Hook, script, and shot plan
Pull an idea into production, generate ten hook variations and keep the one that earns the first two seconds, write the script beside it, then note the shots so several videos can share a filming day.
04
Run the pipeline
Move each card through idea, hook, script, filmed, edited, and posted. The whole month is one board, so what is blocked is visible without opening anything.
The whole channel on one board.
Idea bank, hook variations, scripts, and per-video status in one place instead of thirty documents.
A standing surplus of premises, grouped by angle
An idea bank that does not run dry
The week you post nothing is almost always the week you started with no ideas. Keep a live bank on the canvas, grouped by angle and format, and top it up with AI whenever it thins out. You pull from a bank, you never start from a blank week.
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Ten hooks per video, side by side
Write the first two seconds ten times
The hook is the only part of a short that is guaranteed to be watched. Generate ten variations, lay them out next to each other, and pick the one that actually creates a gap the viewer needs closed. Comparing beats writing one and hoping.
See the AI video script generator →
One long video, five shorts, no rewriting from scratch
Cut the long video into a batch
Most channels are sitting on a back catalogue of shorts they already filmed. Drop the long video's outline on the canvas, mark the moments that stand alone, and spin each one into its own short with its own hook.
Explore the content repurposing planner →
Every video's stage visible at a glance
See what is blocked without opening anything
Thirty videos in six stages is a state you have to be able to read in five seconds. Lay the pipeline out by stage on the canvas, so a pile-up in the edit column or an empty filmed column is obvious before it costs you a posting week.
See the social media content calendar →Unlimited boards. No object cap.
Open a canvas, describe the channel, and let AI fill the idea bank. Storyflow is paid-only during early access, with plans from $9.99 a month, and a Free plan launches before the end of 2026.
Unlimited pipeline boards on an infinite canvas
Basic AI usage to generate hooks, ideas, and scripts
Short-form and channel planning templates built in
Share view-only links with your editor or client
BUILT FOR VOLUME
Built for thirty videos, not for one.
A doc per video works until it does not. A canvas holds the whole month and still lets you write inside a single short.
Idea, hook, script, shot plan, edit notes, posted
Run every stage on the same surface
The idea bank sits on the board: Keep a standing surplus of premises grouped by angle and format. When a shoot falls through or a week goes sideways, you pull the next card instead of trying to be creative on demand.
Hooks get compared, not guessed: Ten hook variations laid out side by side for one video. Read them as a set and the weak ones are obvious, which is a completely different exercise from writing one and convincing yourself it is fine.
Scripts live beside the hook that sold them: Write the full spoken script in the built-in document editor next to the card, timed to length, with the payoff and the loop back to frame one marked so the ending earns a rewatch.
Shot plans grouped for batch days: Note what the camera does for each beat, then group shots across several videos that share a location, an outfit, or a setup. That grouping is the difference between six filming days a month and one.
AI that has read your whole channel, not just the prompt
Generate with the board as context
Hooks and scripts in your channel's voice: Because the AI reads the canvas, it can see the shorts that worked, the phrasing you actually use, and the angles you have already covered. Suggestions land in your niche rather than in a generic one.
Refill the bank on demand: Ask for twenty more premises in the angles that are performing, or for the ones you have been avoiding. The board already knows what you have made, so you get new ideas rather than the same three reworded.
Turn a long video into a short list: Paste or drop in a long-form outline and ask which moments stand alone as vertical videos. Each surviving moment becomes its own card with its own hook, which is far faster than re-planning from nothing.
It drafts, you decide: The AI produces variations quickly. Choosing which hook earns the first two seconds stays with you, because that judgment is the actual skill and the part that compounds.
Vertical framing, captions, b-roll, and the loop
Plan the shot, not just the words
Storyboard the beats that need it: Some shorts are a talking head and need no visual plan. Others live or die on a demonstration or a reveal. Sketch or drop reference frames for those beats on the same board as the script.
Mark the b-roll you have to capture: Note every cutaway the script implies while you are still writing it. Discovering in the edit that you needed a shot you never filmed is the most expensive mistake in short-form.
Design the loop or the payoff: Decide before you film whether the video loops cleanly back to frame one or lands on a payoff that justifies the watch. Both are structural choices, and both are much cheaper to make now than in the edit.
One pipeline across Shorts, Reels, and TikTok
Three platforms, one board
Plan once, adapt per platform: The same premise usually ships to all three with a different hook length and a different caption. Keep the source video and its platform variants on one card rather than in three separate trackers.
Share with an editor or a client: Send a view-only link and your editor sees the script, the shot notes, and the b-roll list without an account. Clients can review a month of planned content in one screen instead of a deck.
Review what the numbers said: Bring retention notes back onto the card after posting. The pattern across twenty videos is what tells you which hook shapes work for your audience, and it is invisible if the results live in three dashboards.
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.
YouTube Plan
Plan a video from hook to outline to shot list, with references and thumbnail ideas sitting right beside it.
HOW WE COMPARE
Storyflow vs Notion, Trello, and Later.
These tools solve different parts of short-form. Here is who genuinely owns which part, including where we do not.
Storyflow
Recommended
Visual idea bank on an infinite canvas
AI writes hooks and scripts with your board as context
Full scripts written where the ideas live
Drag-and-drop stage pipeline
Storyboard and shot plan beside the script
Schedules and publishes to the platforms
Notion
Visual idea bank on an infinite canvas
AI writes hooks and scripts with your board as context
Full scripts written where the ideas live
Drag-and-drop stage pipeline
Storyboard and shot plan beside the script
Schedules and publishes to the platforms
Trello
Visual idea bank on an infinite canvas
AI writes hooks and scripts with your board as context
Full scripts written where the ideas live
Drag-and-drop stage pipeline
Storyboard and shot plan beside the script
Schedules and publishes to the platforms
Later
Visual idea bank on an infinite canvas
AI writes hooks and scripts with your board as context
Full scripts written where the ideas live
Drag-and-drop stage pipeline
Storyboard and shot plan beside the script
Schedules and publishes to the platforms
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
Short-form planning questions, answered.
How to plan a short from idea to script, how to run thirty at once, and what the AI actually does.
Start with a premise from your bank, not from a blank page. Write ten hook variations for it and pick the one that opens a gap the viewer needs closed within two seconds. Then write the script backwards from the payoff, because the ending is what decides whether the hook was a promise you kept. Time it to length by reading it out loud rather than counting words. Finally note the shots each beat needs and the b-roll the script implies, so nothing is discovered as missing in the edit.
Stop planning one video at a time.
Open a canvas, describe your channel, and let AI fill the idea bank and the first batch of hooks. Plans from $9.99/month, no download, and a Free plan is coming before the end of 2026.