kanNINJA for YouTubers
Ideas to ship, in the order they ship.
A board for the channel — scripts, b-roll, the thumbnail you keep redoing. Built for creators who think in episodes, not tasks.
Most YouTubers run a small studio inside their head. Ideas, scripts, shoots, edits, thumbnails, descriptions, scheduled uploads. We built kanNINJA so the channel has a real backlog instead of a Notes app — and so the editor and the producer can finally see the same picture.
Sample board
A board for the channel.
Ideas
- How I built my home studio
- Reaction: trending tool of the week
- Long-form: history of [topic]
- Tutorial: setup guide
Scripting
- Episode 47 — outline
- Episode 48 — script v2 (need callback rewrite)
Shooting / editing
- Ep 46 — first cut (editor: Jamie)
- Ep 45 — color pass
- Thumbnail v3
Scheduled
- Ep 44 — scheduled Tue 9am
Published
- Ep 43 — published
- Ep 42 — published
A real board, not a screenshot. Yours will look different — that’s the point.
How it earns its place
What youtubers actually use it for.
The idea backlog.
Capture every idea the moment it lands. The phone idea, the shower idea, the comment-section idea. The good ones get pulled forward; the rest stay there until they earn it.
Scripts, shoots, edits as a flow.
A column per phase. Episodes drift right as they get closer to publish. The channel pipeline becomes visible — and pacing decisions become real.
Working with an editor or producer.
Invite them. Real-time presence. They see the script the moment you finish it. You see their cut the moment they finish it. No DMing files.
Thumbnails, titles, descriptions in one place.
Every variant attached to the card. The thumbnail you almost picked is right there for next time.
Sponsor and brand-deal tracking.
A board for partnerships. Cards for each deal — brief, fee, deliverable, payment. When a brand asks "did you run that yet?", the answer is one card.
AI for breaking down a series.
Planning a 10-part series? Ask the AI to break it into episode cards. Adjust to your voice. Save the brain space for the actual ideas.
Also from your chat
For youtubers, in any chat.
Open Claude or ChatGPT, ask in plain language, kanNINJA does the rest. The same board, the same kata, the same clan — driven from the chat you already use.
See how it worksReal questions
What youtubers ask.
- Does it integrate with YouTube?
- Not yet. Direct YouTube integration is on the list. For now, the YouTube URL goes on the card after publish — useful for tracking what the title and thumbnail were when you first published.
- Can my editor edit the board?
- Yes — invite them with the right role. Editors can move cards and add comments without being able to delete or change permissions.
- Does it handle file storage for raw footage?
- No, and we will not pretend to. Footage lives in Frame.io or Dropbox or your NAS. Links and small files attach to the card.
- Is this overkill for a solo creator?
- For one channel and zero collaborators, a Notes app may be enough. If you publish more than once a week, or you work with anyone, the board pays back the setup time within a month.
- How much does it cost?
- Free for one creator. Free for two on a shared board. Bringing on a paid editor and producer might cross you into a paid tier — still less than one month of your editor.
