How to use the Story arc planner template

Start a board from it
Use this template opens a new Freero board with the Story arc planner template on it (sign up free first). On a board you already have, open Templates in the toolbar and search for “Story arc planner”.
Follow the instruction on the board
“Plan the big moment first, then work out what has to happen before it. Keep one sticky for events and one for feelings.”
Fill in each part
- What happens, and how the main character feels
- Opening
- Problem
- Rising action
- Big moment
- Falling action
- Resolution
Bring your team and your agents
Invite people to the board or share a link, and work on it together live. The timer is in the top bar, private mode and voting in the board menu, and Claude or ChatGPT can join through Freero’s MCP server.

Work on it with an AI agent

Connect an assistant once and it works on the board with you, with your permissions: by default it reads and proposes, and people decide.

You ask: “Fill in the Story arc planner board from these notes.”
What happens It reads the board, then proposes sticky notes for it. Nothing changes until someone on the board accepts them.
You ask: “Group what we wrote into themes and list the actions.”
What happens It proposes clusters with a title each and task cards for the actions, labelled with its name and yours.

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