Editor Basics

The Studio editor is a canvas where your story’s blocks appear as cards, connected by lines that represent choices. This page is a tour of the layout so you know where everything lives before you start building.

The canvas

The middle of the screen is an infinite canvas:

Pan by dragging an empty area.
Zoom with your scroll wheel or trackpad.
Select a block by clicking it — its details open in the right-hand panel.
Move a block by dragging it. Position is purely visual; it doesn’t change your story’s logic or the order things happen in.

Lines between blocks are the choices connecting them, and they show which way the story flows.

Status badge

The top-left corner shows two things:

A Live / Draft badge — your story’s publish status. Click it to open the publish & share panel.
A Saved / Unsaved changes indicator, telling you whether your latest edits have been saved yet.

A floating toolbar on the left edge gives you:

Undo / Redo — step back and forth through your edit history (also Ctrl+Z / Ctrl+Y).
Save story — saves immediately.
Preview story (the eye icon) — play-test your story right inside the editor, without publishing. See Previewing.
Add block buttons — one per block type. Clicking one drops a new block onto the canvas.

Your story also autosaves as you work, but it’s a good habit to hit Save story before closing the tab — and preview always plays the last saved version, so save before previewing to see your newest edits.

Right-hand panel

The panel on the right has four tabs:

Node — the inspector for whichever block you’ve selected. This is where you edit a block’s content and its outgoing choices.
Story — story-level settings: title, description, and cover image.
Variables — the list of variables your story can read and write, with buttons to create and delete them.
AI — the AI co-writer chat (Creator and Pro plans). On the Free plan this tab shows an upgrade prompt instead.

Node inspector

When a block is selected, the Node tab shows:

Node Properties — the fields specific to that block type (text, image, variable name, and so on) — see Blocks.
Branching — the block’s outgoing choices, with an + Add choice button to add more — see Choices & Branching.
Set as start — makes this block the one players see first. Every story needs exactly one starting block.
Delete node — removes the block (and its choices) from the story.

Story inspector

The Story tab lets you edit:

Title — shown on your dashboard, in the publish panel, and to players.
Description — a short summary shown to players before they start.
Cover — an image used as your story’s thumbnail and intro art.

Categories and the 18+ flag aren’t here — they’re set once when you first create the story and can’t be changed afterward.

The story dashboard

Every story also has its own dashboard, separate from the editor — click into a story from the Studio home to reach it. It shows your story’s structure at a glance (block, choice, and variable counts) and, for published stories, a live view of who’s playing right now and who’s finished. See Tracking Plays.