Creating & Managing Stories

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

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Written by Valeri Potchekailov, Gregory Claeyssens, Carmen Villanueva and 2 others

Creating ✍️

How to create a story

Your next great story is just a click away

Written by Lily Wakelin
Updated over a week ago

Add images to your story

Easy and fast inside the editor.

Written by Gregory Claeyssens
Updated over a week ago

Add image galleries to your story

Upload images to create an interactive gallery

Written by Gregory Claeyssens
Updated over a week ago

Add videos to your story

Give your readers something to watch!

Written by Gregory Claeyssens
Updated over a week ago

Add formatting to text in your story

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

Written by Gregory Claeyssens
Updated over a week ago

Add code formatting to your story

Great for coding tutorials!

Written by Gregory Claeyssens
Updated over a week ago

Create a table of contents

Allow readers to jump to a header

Written by Gregory Claeyssens
Updated over a week ago

Add a divider into your story

Split your story into sections for easier reading

Written by Gregory Claeyssens
Updated over a week ago

Edit images in your story

Crop, add icons, apply filters, and more

Written by Gregory Claeyssens
Updated over a week ago

Add alt attribute to images

Important for SEO and accessibility

Written by Gregory Claeyssens
Updated over a week ago

Customizing your editor

Written by Gregory Claeyssens
Updated over a week ago

Keyboard shortcuts

StoryChief offers keyboard shortcuts to help you write faster and more efficiently. Learn the shortcuts and become a StoryChief power user!

Written by Žiga Miklič
Updated over a week ago

Embedding content 🧩

Embed images from Canva

Using Canva for your designs? now you can embed your images directly in StoryChief!

Written by Carmen Villanueva
Updated over a week ago

Embedding Airtable tables

Written by Carmen Villanueva
Updated over a week ago

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

Enrich your story with visual content

Written by Gregory Claeyssens
Updated over a week ago

Embedding links as cards

Embed just about any public link with StoryChief as a card preview

Written by Gregory Claeyssens
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 Gregory Claeyssens
Updated over a week ago

Embed a HubSpot call to action

Written by Gregory Claeyssens
Updated over a week ago

Embedding HubSpot Forms

Written by Gregory Claeyssens
Updated over a week ago

Embed or link to documents in your story

Written by Gregory Claeyssens
Updated over a week ago

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 Gregory Claeyssens
Updated over a week ago

View the content details of a story

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

Written by Gregory Claeyssens
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 Gregory Claeyssens
Updated over a week ago

Manage multi-language content

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

Written by Gregory Claeyssens
Updated over a week ago

Translate your story

Publish a story for multiple different languages

Written by Gregory Claeyssens
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 external guests to your story

How to collaborate on stories with non users

Written by Lily Wakelin
Updated over a week ago

Working with multiple writers in an article

Written by Gregory Claeyssens
Updated over a week ago

Invite users to your story

Request other users to collaborate with you

Written by Gregory Claeyssens
Updated over a week ago

Use the preview page to receive feedback on your stories

Written by Gregory Claeyssens
Updated over a week ago

Ask someone to review your story

Receive feedback before publishing

Written by Gregory Claeyssens
Updated over a week ago

Create an editorial brief

Define the purpose and audience of a story

Written by Lily Wakelin
Updated over a week ago

Customize your editorial brief template

Create guidelines that work for you!

Written by Gregory Claeyssens
Updated over a week ago

Leave comments inside stories

Collaborate with others to improve your story

Written by Gregory Claeyssens
Updated over a week ago

Using your stories list 📃

How to use filters and segments

Display stories that match certain criteria

Written by Gregory Claeyssens
Updated over a week ago

Frequently asked questions 🤔

What exactly is a story?

Written by Gregory Claeyssens
Updated over a week ago

Will my stories look correct on my website?

Written by Gregory Claeyssens
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 Gregory Claeyssens
Updated over a week ago

Can I make changes to my stories in my CMS?

Written by Gregory Claeyssens
Updated over a week ago

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
Updated over a week ago

Can I check my spelling and grammar in StoryChief?

Written by Gregory Claeyssens
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 Gregory Claeyssens
Updated over a week ago

Do I have to optimize image sizes?

Written by Valeri Potchekailov
Updated over a week ago