> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.wji.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Idea Studio overview

> Capture stories, characters, locations, props, and shots you can reuse across every app.

**Idea Studio** is where the written side of a project lives. You collect the material a story is
made of — who is in it, where it happens, what appears in frame — and everything you write here is
available to the other apps as reference.

<Note>
  Some screens still label this app **Creative Tools**. It is the same app.
</Note>

## The folders

<Frame caption="The six system folders">
  <img src="https://mintcdn.com/wji/1nwL1jaWRdmAhYLq/images/idea-studio/folders-01.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=1nwL1jaWRdmAhYLq&q=85&s=f7e2f1ec236ffcc46424340ab2f671d6" alt="Left panel file tree showing the story, character, location, prop, shot, and other folders with ideas inside" width="1600" height="900" data-path="images/idea-studio/folders-01.png" />
</Frame>

Every workspace starts Idea Studio with six folders already created:

| Folder        | What goes in it                                 |
| ------------- | ----------------------------------------------- |
| **Story**     | Outlines, premises, full scripts                |
| **Character** | People, with descriptions and reference images  |
| **Location**  | Places and sets                                 |
| **Prop**      | Objects that appear in frame                    |
| **Shot**      | Individual shots, with camera and framing notes |
| **Other**     | Anything that does not fit the rest             |

These six are system folders. You cannot rename, delete, or copy them, but you can create your own
subfolders inside them.

## What an idea holds

Each idea is a card with:

* A **type** — outline, screenplay, character, location, prop, outfit, scene, shot, or other
* A **summary**, which is required
* **Detailed content** in Markdown
* **Tags**
* An **image prompt** and a **video prompt**
* **Images and video** attached to it
* Free-form **metadata**

The summary matters more than it looks. When an idea is used as a reference during generation, the
summary is what the AI reads.

## How you build it up

<Columns cols={2}>
  <Card title="Build with AI" icon="wand-magic-sparkles" href="/idea-studio/build-with-ai">
    Turn an outline or a premise into a whole set of ideas at once.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Create and edit ideas" icon="pen-to-square" href="/idea-studio/create-and-edit-ideas">
    Add ideas one at a time, by hand or with AI help.
  </Card>
</Columns>

## Where the ideas go next

An idea is not the end product. From an idea you can:

* Generate images and video in
  [Idea Image Generation](/image-generation/overview), with the idea as reference
* Drag it onto a [canvas](/infinite-canvas/overview) as a dataset node
* Feed it to the workspace AI chat as context

Clicking an idea's avatar in detail view jumps you straight into Idea Image Generation with that
idea selected.