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The Storyus GuideCreating
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Getting started Photos & media Journeys Streams Moments Postcards Video Essays Reflections Albums Timelines Magazines Publishing & reachReading · chapter 3 of 4
Ways to read
Browse, the Magazine, story pages, journeys and timelines.
An archive isn't a feed - it deserves more than one way in. Storyus gives you several, and they suit different moods: wandering, catching up, or settling in with one story properly.
Browse - the whole archive
Browse (in the header) lays out every story your role can see. It comes in two characters: discovery, a big visual wall that rewards wandering, and a classic card grid when you want order. The filter row above the cards does the work: sort newest or oldest first, show only your bookmarked stories, narrow by story type or by author, or flick on auto-load and just scroll.
The Stream - the everyday layer
Stream (also in the header) is the collective's running feed of moments: a photo and a sentence from an ordinary Tuesday. It's the closest thing here to a social feed - except it's only your people, and it never reorders itself to keep you hooked.
Story pages - where you settle in
Click any card and you're on the story's own page, and each form reads differently: an essay is a long quiet read -
- while a journey walks you along a live map, and a timeline threads moments in order:
A reflection opens as a collage of photos and words; an album gives you a whole set of photos as one story:
Collections and magazines - stories gathered up
Stories that belong together - one trip, one year, one person - can be gathered into a collection, which reads as a shelf:
A magazine goes one further: it's a curated front page whose sections fill themselves by rules ("newest from the trip", "everything about Grandma"). Some collectives use a magazine as their front door - if yours does, you've already been reading one. How they're made is in the Magazines chapter.
Try it now
Wander +demos in discovery mode, open whatever catches your eye, and ride the journey to the end - it's the page that best explains why this isn't a photo app.