Stop losing your screenplay between writing sessions.
One Notion workspace that tracks scenes, characters, decisions, and drafts. Built for screenwriters, novelists, showrunners, and documentarians who juggle multiple projects.
Seven databases. One project. Fifteen relations holding it all together.
Projects
The spine. Stage, current goal, next critical step, logline, format, status. Everything else hangs from here.
Scene Breakdown
Act, conflict, purpose, location. Keep the spine of each scene visible before you write a word.
Character Bible
Want, need, flaw, arc. Backstory and key scenes auto-link through relations.
Draft Log
Versions, feedback sources, page counts, dates. Your story's history in one place.
Decision Log
Every choice you've made and why. Your compass when you get lost at page 84.
Reference Vault
Films, books, research. Relevance and key takeaway, not just a link graveyard.
Development Roadmap
Milestones, phases, deliverables, dependencies. Timeline and board views included.
Weekly Review
Sunday ritual. Five prompts. 12 minutes. Come back to the work without losing the thread.
Gladiator Demo
A fully filled example project. See every database working together before you touch your own.
What changes is how you come back to your project after a pause.
- Scene ideas scattered across five apps
- Character arcs you can't find on Sunday
- Notes on the script, on your phone, in your head
- Every Sunday you waste 40 minutes remembering
- One workspace. Every screenplay, one tab away
- Your next step is always already decided
- Feedback, decisions, drafts, traceable
- Sunday reviews in 12 minutes, not 12 hours
Real pages. Real data. Nothing mocked.
Screenshots taken inside the actual template. Same Notion pages you get when you duplicate, with the Gladiator demo project already seeded: 6 characters, 8 scenes, 5 drafts.
Root page
Arrival screen with guided first steps. Your home base, styled for returning.
Gladiator demo
Fully seeded example from Ridley Scott's Gladiator. Walk through before building your own.
Character Bible
Maximus, Commodus, Lucilla, Proximo, Juba, Marcus Aurelius. Every field filled.
I lost a scene once. I was seventy pages in, couldn't remember why I'd written it that way.
I write screenplays for a living. The longer a draft lives, the more context leaks out. Scene notes on the phone. Character arcs in a doc from three months ago. A reference film I meant to rewatch but forgot the timestamp. By page 84 of a rewrite, I spent more time hunting for why I made a choice than making new choices.
I tried every writing app, every tracker. They were either empty skeletons or Notion workspaces so overloaded you couldn't find the door. None of them had a full filled example. None of them understood that a scene links to a character which links to a want which links to the decision you made on Tuesday to change that want.
So I built it for myself. Seven databases, fifteen relations. Gladiator pre-seeded so a new user can see it working before touching their own. A Weekly Review ritual that takes twelve minutes because I know I won't do forty.
It is not the biggest Notion template on the market. It is the one a working screenwriter actually uses between sessions. If that is you, it will save you the hour a week I used to lose remembering.
I built this for my film work, but the shape of the problem is the same whether you write for screen, stage, page, or documentary. If you have more than one project alive at the same time, this workspace gives you one way back into each of them.
Vladimir Koptsev · screenwriter and director, graduate of Aleksandr Sokurov's Film Directing Program
Launch price for the first 100 customers. Standalone workspace. Extensible when you're ready.
Not ready to buy? Try the free Lite version, 3 core databases, no Gladiator demo. Upgrade anytime.
You might be asking.
Is this only for screenwriters?
No. The structure works for any writer juggling multiple projects: novelists tracking chapters and characters, showrunners managing episode arcs, documentarians building scene lists from interviews. The Gladiator demo is cinematic, but the databases are format-agnostic.
Do I need a paid Notion plan?
No. Free Notion works. If you want to share with a collaborator, Plus is enough.
Does this replace Final Draft?
No. It doesn't format screenplays. It does everything before and between: development, arcs, decisions, drafts, research. Export to Final Draft when you're ready to format.
What if I already have a Notion setup?
You can import individual databases. The 15 relations are what make this work, though. The whole is greater than the parts.
Can I add more tools later?
Yes. The workspace is built to extend. When you're ready for more, new add-ons connect directly. Nothing you build now gets disrupted.
Refunds?
If it doesn't work for you inside 14 days, email me. I'll refund and ask for your notes.
- Everything in the base workspace
- Three practical worksheets: Character Archetype, Beat Sheet, Logline Formula
- 30-minute video consultation with Vladimir Koptsev