Interactive fiction, mapped
Your branching story, finally in one view
IdeaBoard is a visual canvas for interactive fiction. Map every scene and choice, connect the paths a reader can take, and keep the variables your plot depends on right where you can see them.
Free to start. Your boards are private to you by default.
Prologue
Cold open on the relay
The Signal
Investigate
Turn back
Choice
{{trust}} +1How it works
From a tangle in your head to a map on the wall
Three moves take you from blank canvas to a story you can trace end to end.
- 01
Write your beats
Scatter notes for scenes, choices, and endings. No structure required yet — just get them onto the canvas.
- 02
Wire the paths
Connect notes to show what leads where. Branches, loops, and dead ends become visible at a glance.
- 03
Track what changes
Add components for the variables that matter and reference them in your notes. Your logic stays in sight, not in your head.
Features
Everything a branching story needs, nothing it doesn't
An infinite canvas that writes in Markdown
Drop a note anywhere and start typing. Headings, lists, bold, links — the notes render the Markdown you already know, so a scene reads like a scene, not a form field.
## The Archivist
She keeps every ending you didn't choose.
- knows the vault code
- lies about the map
Draw the branches, see the whole story
Connect notes to lay out every path a reader can take. Drag a line from one choice to the next and your outline becomes a map you can actually follow.
Track the variables your story turns on
Define components once — trust, fuel, whether they kept the key — then reference them inline with @ autocomplete. IdeaBoard shows where each one is used and flags references that no longer resolve.
Components
The lock clicks if {{hasKey}}
Sketch when words are the wrong tool
Some things are faster to draw. Add a freehand sketch note for a map, a timeline, or the shape of a room, right beside the prose it belongs to.
the river route
Made for people who write in branches
Interactive fiction and ChoiceScript authors, Twine tinkerers, tabletop and RPG designers, game writers, and worldbuilders — anyone whose story stops being a line and starts being a shape.