Every project has a story to tell. Storylines gives you the tools to tell it.
Storylines is a fast-to-launch application that turns your project's real-world activity into a dynamic hub your audience and stakeholders can explore, contribute to, and grow together. It lives wherever you need it to be - standalone, or as part of your website.. It is designed to get you from idea to delivery in days instead of months.
storylines makes building and telling your story simple.
Designed originally with Development Agencies and Consulting Organisations in mind, Storylines feature set has expanded to make it a powerful tool for any organisation that needs a dynamic and flexible presentation of their projects story.
Environmental Planners, Architects - any agency needing to explore and give context to where their story happens, as well as functioning as a distribution hub for their audience and stakeholders.
Up until now, developing and building a solution that incorporates storytelling, mapping and multiple media sources -photography, video and external data - was a long slow process.
Weeks if not months of brainstorming what the project should be then contracting with an agency to implement a custom solution. Then more months of production and programming to bring the project to life.
And the end result - a custom solution that may meet short terms goals but that is difficult to modify and edit and is not geared to evolve and grow with the project.
Storylines gives you the key elements needed for any type of project and presents them fully integrated. Build fast and iterate, modify and evolve as the project develops over time. Quickly structure the narrative you want to deliver to your audience and have it automatically synchronised with where things happen. Add media -photos, text, or video - with full control over how it is presented.
Changes? Things change and evolve- re-ordering content is as easy as drag-and-drop. Choose from project style templates, connect external data sources and have everything used in the project available in a shareable Project Library.
Museums, research institutes, newsrooms and development programmes all reach the same point. They have work that happened in real places, captured in photos, video, interviews and data. They want to present it as a story, not a report.
It usually starts with weeks of discussion. That becomes a brief, then procurement, then an agency contract, and only then production. In development the pattern is familiar: a project enters its final year, closeout budget remains, and someone decides the work deserves more than another PDF. Timelines slip, and the site often launches after the programme has ended.
Then comes the first change. A custom build is shaped around the content that existed when it was commissioned
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So a new chapter or an updated figure means another request to the developer. Eventually the changes stop, and the people who know the work best are locked out of their own story.Eighteen months later the hosting lapses, nobody remembers the login, and the site goes dark. The next project starts again from nothing.
The problem is structural: storytelling infrastructure is treated as a one-off expense, not something built once and reused. The alternative is a platform built for this need. Story and place stay linked. Your team edits directly and reorders content with drag-and-drop. Templates mean you never start from blank, and a shared Project Library carries everything forward to the next story.
With Storylines, launch a new story the way you'd start a new document, not the way you'd commission software.
Storylines was built on the idea that a reader shouldn't have to choose, because the two aren't actually in tension — they just sit at different depths of the same structure.
The simplest way to describe it is as three motions, each doing a different job. Moving vertically — scrolling top to bottom — is the spine: the sequence the author intended, chapter by chapter.
Moving horizontally, within a chapter, is breadth: different facets of the same moment sitting side by side rather than stacked in order — a photo here, a data point there, a different voice just a click away.
Most tools pick one.
Clicking into a piece of content to go fullscreen is depth — a deliberate step away from navigation, where the reader stops moving through structure and just sits with one thing. What ties the three together is that none is a dead end.
However far a reader wanders, Map View is always one step back — less a menu than a floor plan, always available without interrupting the experience. Curiosity never costs orientation.
Think of it like walking through a well-designed exhibition. You move through the rooms in sequence (vertical). In a given room, you look left and right at what's around you (horizontal).
You lean in close to read the placard on one piece that caught your eye (fullscreen). And at any point you can glance at the floor plan by the entrance without that meaning you've left the exhibition.
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excerpts of projects developed with Storylines
select any of the thumbnails from the menu below to see an excerpt of that project - if you would like to see more from any of the projects, use the form at the end of the page to get in touch to arrange a demo
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A library of map templates and styles
Storylines gives you control over the visual style of your projects. You can access a built in library of map styles with the ability to create your own. Add your branding and preferred colour styling as well as font styles. An easy to use animation interface lets you create camera movements between locations with control over timings and camera angles.
3D Photo Realistic environments
Storylines doesn’t exist in only two dimensions. You can position and track your content within full 3D photo realistic environments. Projects move from being places on a map to realistic virtual experiences. You can even mix and match between the two -beginning your story on a map then transitoning to 3D in specific locations.
choose from a built-in library of map styles
automatically track routes between locations
create you own map styles
add Geo data from external sources
animate map movement between content sections
create photo-realistic fully 3D map environments
Storylines backend and Story Editor are connected modules that help you manage your projects, create new stories and edit existing ones.
- Creating the overall structure of your story is fast, efficient and geared towards in-house communication teams -no technical expertise needed.
Projects don’t start in the office. Often they begin on location, in the field or during a site visit. We built Storyboarder to be your tool for beginning the building of a project while you are where it is happening.
Storyboarder is a mobile application that lets you either start a project from scratch or add content to an existing project. Working with your mobile phone, simply take photographs, record voice notes and create chapters and they are automatically sent to your Storylines project.
Chapters are created, photos are geotagged in the map and voice notes are transcribed and entered as captions and content. All editable and changeable when you get back to the office.
And if you are working with a team it can be invaluable - while you are sketching out the project from the field, colleagues back home can access and refine the project while you continue to work remotely.
Every development project has a story worth telling — where it happens, who it reaches, what it achieves. Storylines makes that simple: a fast-to-launch tool that turns your project's real-world activity into a living hub
Storylines is a project from Content That Moves
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