Creating & Managing Stories

How to create, optimize, and publish your stories in our easy-to-use editor with your team. Discover how to view and filter all of your stories.

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Written by Valeri Potchekailov, Gregory Claeyssens, and Sam Fielding

Creating ✍️

Create a new story

Your next great story is just a click away

Written by Sam Fielding
Updated this week

Add images to your story

Easy and fast inside the editor.

Written by Sam Fielding
Updated this week

Add image galleries to your story

Upload images to create an interactive gallery

Written by Sam Fielding
Updated over a week ago

Add videos to your story

Give your readers something to watch!

Written by Sam Fielding
Updated over a week ago

Add formatting to text

Set it as bold, italics, underlined, a heading, link, and more!

Written by Sam Fielding
Updated over a week ago

Add a code block in your story

Great for coding tutorials!

Written by Sam Fielding
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Create anchor links

Allow readers to jump to a header

Written by Sam Fielding
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Add a divider into your story

Split your story into sections for easier reading

Written by Sam Fielding
Updated over a week ago

Edit images in your story

Crop, add icons, apply filters, and more

Written by Sam Fielding
Updated over a week ago

Add alt attribute to images

Important for SEO and accessibility

Written by Sam Fielding
Updated over a week ago

Embedding content 🧩

Add content from external sources (social media, audio, forms, and more)

Enrich your story with visual content

Written by Sam Fielding
Updated over a week ago

Embed forms in your story

Capture and send leads directly to your CRM

Written by Gregory Claeyssens
Updated over a week ago

Embed content from Giphy

Make your stories animated with GIFs

Written by Sam Fielding
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Embed a HubSpot call to action

Written by Sam Fielding
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Embed or link to documents in your story

Written by Sam Fielding
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Finishing up 🎉

Optimize your story for SEO and readability

Make sure that search engines find your story and readers find it easy to digest

Written by Sam Fielding
Updated over a week ago

View the content details of a story

Discover the total characters, words, paragraphs, and more.

Written by Sam Fielding
Updated over a week ago

Create a summary for your story

Adapt how your story will appear on social media posts, newsletters, ambassadors, and other channels

Written by Sam Fielding
Updated over a week ago

Manage multi-language content

Going multi-language? Great! Let us guide you through the process.

Written by Sam Fielding
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Translate your story

Publish a story for multiple different languages

Written by Sam Fielding
Updated over a week ago

View previous versions of a story

Use Version History to see and to restore previous version(s)

Written by Valeri Potchekailov
Updated over a week ago

Collaboration 🙏

Invite users to your story

Request other users to collaborate with you

Written by Sam Fielding
Updated over a week ago

Ask someone to review your story

Receive feedback before publishing

Written by Sam Fielding
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Create an editorial brief

Define the purpose and audience of a story

Written by Sam Fielding
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Customize your editorial brief template

Create guidelines that work for you!

Written by Sam Fielding
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Leave comments inside stories

Collaborate with others to improve your story

Written by Sam Fielding
Updated over a week ago

Using your stories list 📃

How to use filters and segments

Display stories that match certain criteria

Written by Sam Fielding
Updated over a week ago

Frequently asked questions 🤔

What exactly is a story?

Written by Sam Fielding
Updated over a week ago

Will my stories look correct on my website?

Written by Sam Fielding
Updated over a week ago

Do I need to save my story?

You never have to manually save a story in StoryChief

Written by Valeri Potchekailov
Updated over a week ago

Who owns the content of my stories?

Written by Valeri Potchekailov
Updated over a week ago

Can I add tables, columns and inline images in a story?

Written by Sam Fielding
Updated over a week ago

Can I make changes to my stories in my CMS?

Written by Sam Fielding
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How can I host my own images?

Side-load images to your own website.

Written by Gregory Claeyssens
Updated over a week ago

Why can't I adjust formatting (fonts/colors/spacing)?

Written by Valeri Potchekailov
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Can I check my spelling and grammar in StoryChief?

Written by Sam Fielding
Updated over a week ago

Can I download a story?

Download your story in PDF and Word formats and the images in a zip file

Written by Sam Fielding
Updated over a week ago

Do I have to optimize image sizes?

Written by Valeri Potchekailov
Updated over a week ago