Keep your outline, characters, and sources on one page. Skrib's free story outline and research template holds the whole book - and the draft sits beside it.
Write it in one sentence here.
What happens first.
What carries the piece.
What it lands on.
Quotes, sources, links. Everything you'll pull from while writing.
Drop your PDFs, links, and photos on the Plan, then note the key ones here.
Most writers keep the book in four places: an outline document, a character file, a folder of research, and a manuscript that references all three. Then a detail changes, and only three of them find out.
The Outline & Research Template puts the whole project on one Board - chapters, characters, timeline, and sources - with your draft one click away in the same studio.
• Chapter and scene outline - Summaries, POV, location, and word-count targets, structured however you work: chapters, scenes, acts, or parts.
• Character sheets - Wants, needs, flaws, arcs, and relationships, linked to the scenes where they change.
• Timeline and continuity - Track what happened when, so book two doesn’t contradict book one.
• Research library - Upload PDFs, articles, images, spreadsheets, and interview notes straight onto the canvas beside the scene that needs them.
• Themes and open questions - A parking place for the threads you haven’t resolved yet, so they stop living in your head.
• One page, whole project. Outline, notes, sources, and characters on a single infinite Board - no folder archaeology.
• Research where you’ll use it. Your sources sit next to the scene they belong to, not in a downloads folder you’ll never open again.
• Outline at your own resolution. One line per chapter or a full beat-by-beat breakdown. Both live on the same canvas.
• Search everything. Your Library keeps every draft and imported file searchable, so you can find the detail you wrote four months ago.
• Your work stays yours. Import what you have, export to .docx, .md, .pdf, .fdx, .xlsx and more, any time. We don’t train AI on your writing.
• Novelists planning a book chapter by chapter before drafting.
• Serial authors keeping a living index of what’s published and what’s next.
• Historical and literary writers working from heavy source material.
• Non-fiction writers organising interviews, citations, and structure together.
• Rewriters reverse-outlining a finished draft to find what’s actually there.
Open Story Outline & Research Template for Writers in your own studio
Free to start. The template lands in a new project with its plan and its draft already in place.
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