A digital corkboard for writers

What a corkboard is good for

A corkboard turns a story into something you can see and touch. Each card is small, so it forces you to name what a scene or chapter is for. The board shows the whole shape at once, so you can spot a saggy middle or a character who disappears. And cards move, so trying a new order costs nothing.

That’s why writers use one for screenplays, novels, plays, podcasts, talks and dissertations — anything with a structure that has to be found rather than planned.

Where a paper corkboard falls short

• It lives on one wall. You can’t take it to a café, and you can’t open it on the train.
• There’s no backup and no undo. A knocked board or a lost card is gone.
• It runs out of room. Two projects need two boards, and a long novel needs a lot of wall.
• It’s hard to share. A photo of a corkboard is unreadable; retyping it is a chore.

What Scrībō adds

• Cards that look like cards — real 3×5 proportions, portrait or landscape, sized with a slider, in twelve themes from ruled paper to neon.
• Drag and drop — pick up any card and drop it anywhere; undo if you didn’t mean it.
• Rows become acts — group cards into named, coloured bands (Act One, Part Two, Chapter 5) that you can collapse to focus on one section.
• Five colours — tag cards by plotline, point of view or status and see the pattern across the whole board.
• On every device — any modern browser on a laptop, tablet or phone; with a free account your boards sync between them.
• Multiple boards — one project per story, and you can switch between them from the settings drawer.
• Share and export — send a read-only link, print the board (each act starts a new page) or export it to text, CSV, JSON or Fountain.

Getting started

1. Open the app — go to scribo.co/app. There’s no sign-up; your first board is ready.
2. Add cards — press n or the add button, and write one idea per card.
3. Arrange them — drag cards into order, colour them, and add bands for your acts or parts.
4. Save it to an account when you’re ready — create a free account and the cards you’ve already made come with you.

New to the method? Our guide to outlining a screenplay with index cards walks through it step by step, and novelists can start with index cards for novels.