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 ✍️

Create a new story

Your next great story is just a click away

Written by Gregory Claeyssens
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

Set it 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 anchor links

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

Custom Fields

Learn how to create custom fields on StoryChief

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 🧩

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 non users to your Story

How to collaborate on stories with non users

Written by Lily Wakelin
Updated this week

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 this week

Create an editorial brief

Define the purpose and audience of a story

Written by Gregory Claeyssens
Updated this week

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

Viewing custom fields in your stories list

See the contents of your custom fields for every story

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