The blog your archive always wanted to write.
A Notion-style block editor for editorial stories that link directly to your catalog. Drop in an item card, paragraph, quote, two-column image gallery, or an entity series — and publish to a citable, SEO-ready URL on your portal.
An editorial layer over the catalog.
Most archive software stops at the record. Stories let your curators tell the bigger picture — exhibitions, anniversaries, new acquisitions, deep dives — without exporting fields to a separate CMS that drifts out of sync.
Entity blocks stay live.
Drop an Item card into a story. Re-pick to refresh the snapshot. Original entity is one click away.
Magazine-quality layout.
Eight column-width presets, vertical or horizontal entity cards, full or half-width images, dividers.
Track changes, like everywhere else.
Pristine vs dirty vs published — same model as Items. Floating Save bar tracks your edits.
The right primitives. Nothing more.
Each block type is purpose-built for archival writing — entity cards, entity series, attribution-aware quotes, layout-aware images.
Heading
H1, H2, or H3 with the portal's typography baked in.
Paragraph
Markdown — headings, lists, links, **bold**, *italics*, [links](url).
Quote
Pull-quote with optional attribution. Renders large, indented.
Image
Full-width or half-width with caption and alt text. Pulls from the media library.
Entity card
Drop in an Item, Person, Organization, Event, or Collection — caches a snapshot so the card always renders.
Entity series
A grid or list of multiple entities of one kind — perfect for an exhibition or thematic spread.
External link
Rich link card with URL, title, description, and optional preview image.
Divider
A horizontal rule for sectioning long stories.
Row
2-, 3-, or 4-column container. Eight presets — 50/50, 33/67, 25/50/25, equal-fourths, more.
Publish freezes a snapshot.
When you hit Publish, the story's title, body, blocks, cover, and linked items are frozen into an immutable snapshot. The portal reads only from that — so curator edits never retroactively change what the public sees.
- Versioned snapshot — safe to evolve over time
- Re-publish overwrites the snapshot; the timestamp is kept
- Banner warns when you have unpublished edits
- One-click revert to draft
Permalinks & SEO that don't break old links.
Stories ship with first-class SEO meta and a permalinks list — so an old shareable URL still resolves after you rename a story. No 404s, no lost citations.
- Slug is unique per tenant; portal URL is /stories/{slug}
- MetaDescription copied into the document head at render
- PermalinksJson holds additional slugs that resolve to the same story
- Open Graph cover image presigned and served from object storage
A newsroom view for the curator team.
A search page with publish-state filter (All · Published · Drafts), three sort orders, search-as-you-type, and per-card actions for quick triage of a long backlog.
- All · Published · Drafts filter chips
- Sort: Recently Published · Newest · Title A–Z
- Per-story cover, excerpt, author, tags, linked-item count
- Quick actions: Preview · Edit · Delete (with confirmation)
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Tell the story behind the records.
Spin up a tenant, draft a story, drop in a few item cards, and publish to your portal — in an afternoon.