This product was not featured by Product Hunt yet. It will not be visible on their landing page and won't be ranked (cannot win product of the day regardless of upvotes).
A board-based writing tool for plotting stories. Arrange your ideas as cards on a canvas and see your whole plot at a glance — just like sticky notes on a wall. Free, runs in your browser, English & Japanese.
Hi Product Hunt 👋
I'm hikage, a solo developer who loves writing stories.
Whenever I outlined a plot, I missed the feeling of spreading sticky notes across a desk — seeing every idea at once and moving them around freely. Existing tools felt either too heavy or too linear, so I built Plot Cards.
Plot Cards lets you place your ideas as cards on a wide canvas, so your whole story stays visible at a glance. Everything is organized as Book > Page > Card.
👀 See your whole plot at a glance — color-code scenes, characters, foreshadowing
✍️ Edit right on the board, or open a card for focused long-form writing
🌗 Light / dark theme, 🇬🇧 / 🇯🇵 English & Japanese
💾 Runs in your browser, saves locally (or sync with an account)
🆓 Free to use
I'd love to hear your feedback — what would make this more useful for your own writing?
How do the cards stay organized once you start layering subplots — is there any tagging or folder system, or are you purely relying on spatial grouping on the canvas?
Curious how it handles long projects, like novels with dozens of chapters and subplots, does the canvas get unwieldy or is there some way to group or filter cards as the story grows?
Does this save anything to the cloud or is it all local in the browser, since you mentioned it's free?
Finally tried this last night and the board layout actually clicked for me. Moved a few scenes around and noticed a gap in my third act I had been ignoring for weeks.
How does it handle exporting once your outline gets big? Trying to imagine moving a finished plot into something like Scrivener or just a clean doc without it turning into a mess.
Drag-and-drop actually feels smooth and the Japanese toggle is a nice touch. Wish the free version had a bit more than one canvas though, otherwise solid for outlining.
Loving the sticky note vibe for outlining scenes. One thing that would really help my workflow is a way to link related cards together with a labeled line (like "leads to" or "foreshadows") so I can map cause and effect without cluttering the board with extra notes.
Been needing something like this for outlining my novels. Dragging cards around the canvas feels surprisingly natural and the bilingual support is a nice touch for a free tool.
About Plot Cards on Product Hunt
“Build your story like arranging sticky notes”
Plot Cards was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 5 upvotes and 9 comments, placing #102 on the daily leaderboard. A board-based writing tool for plotting stories. Arrange your ideas as cards on a canvas and see your whole plot at a glance — just like sticky notes on a wall. Free, runs in your browser, English & Japanese.
Plot Cards was featured in Design Tools (261.3k followers), Productivity (656.3k followers) and Writing (59.3k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 198.4k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Plot Cards?
Plot Cards was hunted by hikage_monokage. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
Want to see how Plot Cards stacked up against nearby launches in real time? Check out the live launch dashboard for upvote speed charts, proximity comparisons, and more analytics.
hikage_monokage