Made by one person, in the open
Penci.ly started because a game design document is a terrible shape for a game. So is a novel outline in a word processor, and a research argument in a folder of PDFs. All three are things with parts that refer to each other, and all three get flattened into a list the moment they go into a document.
So this is the opposite: a canvas where the parts stay where you put them and the relationships between them are drawn rather than described.
Penci.ly is a pre-alpha. It is used every day, by its author and by the people in early access, and it changes often. It is not finished, it does not have an uptime commitment yet.
Early access is free for life for everyone who signs up now. After launch, new accounts pay. There is no investor, no ads, and nothing in Penci.ly reads your boards to train anything.
If you cannot see the whole project, you cannot tell when two parts of it have stopped agreeing with each other.
The overview is the product.
There is no template to fill in, because the shape of a campaign is not the shape of a thesis and neither is the shape of a wedding.
Structure should come from you.
Every board exports to PDF, with no plan gating it. We would rather you stay because it is good.
Your work should be portable.
Use cases
What people plan on Penci.ly
Questions about getting started
Still have a question? Send it to our team and we will help you work out whether Penci.ly fits your project.
Put your next project where you can see it
One canvas, everything on it, arranged the way you think about it. Free while we are in early access.