A video channel, a podcast, or a stream
Channel@The-Virtual-Panda/channel
Videos and posts by series, pages, a content calendar, a brand kit, and a rate card.
- The Channel
- Videos
- Posts
- Pages
In the app: New Root, then pick it from the list.
Every video on one page, from the hook to the sponsor read.
One page per video, grouped by series: the hook, the beats, title options, where the sponsor read sits, and what the video does not cover. Your formats, your voice, your brand kit, and your rate card sit beside them, so you, your editor, and your producer work from the same plan.
Free for macOS, Windows, and Linux. No account, no subscription.
Sound familiar?
Ideas in five apps, and the plan in your head.
Everything is somewhere else
Ideas in a notes app, scripts in docs, thumbnails in a folder, and the sponsor’s brief in your inbox. Nothing knows which video it belongs to.
The series drifts
Episode twelve breaks the format episode one set, because the rules lived in your head and your editor never saw them.
The read slips
The sponsor read lands in the wrong spot or says the wrong thing, because what you agreed is in an email from three weeks ago.
How it fits
Every video, post, and page of the site has a page.
Start from the Channel framework and the channel gets a shape: four pages that say what it is, and a page for everything you make. Each video moves from Idea to Scripted, Shot, Edited, Scheduled, and Published, or Shelved with the reasons kept.
- The Channel
- Four pages: who watches, the formats, the voice, and how the channel makes money. Every video is read against them.
- Videos
- One per video, grouped by series: the hook, the beats, title and thumbnail, the sponsor read, and what it is not. A Short and a pitch get shorter pages.
- Posts
- The written side, grouped by the same series. A companion post says what it adds to its video.
- Pages
- The site: about, sponsors, merch, the newsletter.
- Calendar, Brand Kit, Rate Card
- One page each: what ships when, the look and the sound, and what a placement costs.
What you will use most
The tools that keep a channel on schedule.
- Blueprints
Gaps before the shoot
The health check lists every video missing a section its template asks for, so a video with no hook or no Not This Video never reaches the shoot unnoticed.
- Backlog
Production on a board
Record the read, three thumbnail options, the color pass: tasks on a board, each pointing at the video it is for.
- Canvas
The month on one page
Lay out a month by series, with arrows for end screens and companion posts, and sticky notes for the things to check. Every card opens its page.
- Comments
Notes from your editor
Your editor leaves a note on the exact beat that runs long, your producer on the sponsor section, and you close each one once it is settled.
- Assets
Thumbnails and briefs, linked
Paste a thumbnail into a video’s page and it is saved in one folder beside the sponsor’s PDF, and each file’s page lists the videos that use it.
- AI Agent
A second opinion, only if you want one
Nothing happens unless you connect your own Claude Code or Codex and ask. If you do, it can hold ten title ideas up against your title rules, or tell you where a video’s beats break its format.
The month
See what ships, and what it points at
Put the month’s videos on a canvas by series, join them with labelled arrows (end screen, cut list, sponsor read), and leave yourself a sticky note. Each card shows its status, and the canvas settings can colour every card by it.
Brand kit and rate card
The look, the sound, and the price, written down once
The colours, the fonts, the intro and outro, and the lower thirds live on one page your editor can read, and the rate card on another. Export either to PDF from its menu when someone asks.
- A video you shelve stays, marked Shelved, with the reason.
- Sort the videos by publish date to see what is next.
- A Short points at the full video it feeds.
Start here
Start from Channel.
Channel holds the channel: The Channel (audience, formats, voice, and money), videos and posts grouped by series, the pages of your site, and a content calendar, a brand kit, and a rate card. It works the same for a podcast or a stream. Pick it when you start a new project in the app.
See it in the Registry
Plan your next video on one page.
Download Eidos MD, pick the Channel framework, and write your formats page before your next shoot. It is free, and your pages stay on your computer.
Free for macOS, Windows, and Linux. Your files stay plain text in a folder you own.