Welcome to cartafina, the place for unique charts, maps and guides that help creative people create better and faster.

what’s this all about

cartafina provides helpful charts for creators of all kinds, like writers, designers, or even cooks. Cartafina was born in 2008 and so the store currently has mainly charts for script and novel writers, but will grow to include more charts for designers, architects or even herb gardeners. Come back soon to see what's new.

what’s new

On popular demand, several new charts are now available to make writing stories a lot easer: the timeliner mini and timeliner maxi, are two charts with all the story structure tools of the other cartafina writer's charts, but in notepad and whiteboard style, so you can fill in your own story. (Kind of like a digital whiteboard or corkboard) The artboarder mini offers the same functionality, but in a different layout, more suitable for visual story creators who like to start a story creation process with drawing thumbnails and sketches of scenes.

what’s coming up

Work on charts that let you fill in your own story continues with the artboarder maxi, a companion chart to the artboarder mini that lets illustrators and other visual story creators enter thumbnails and sketches. Stay tuned.

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Questions? Comments? Get in touch at

hello@cartafina.com. Let cartafina know what you think about the charts or where they can be made better. Please give feedback on how a cartafina chart has helped you in your project.

Where and how you can use
cartafina products

You can use cartafina charts as a reference in any of your creative projects. Print them, frame them, blog them. As often as you want, anywhere you want. For commercial use in courses or learning materials, please contact cartafina. Read the disclaimer for more information.

Who's behind cartafina?
Who creates all these charts?

Cartafina is Petra's Information Architecture Store. Petra is an Information Architect and Interaction Designer who helps large companies create valuable customer experiences for high-traffic eCommerce portals, high-impact brand sites and high-volume database intranets. Petra is passionate about finding and telling the magical story around a product or service and offering simple solutions to complex navigational problems. Contact herfor employment or project inquiries.

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