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What is a user stories template?
User stories are a simple, structured way of describing what your customers or users want to do with your product and why. The typical format is: "As a [role], I want [feature], so that [outcome]." It ensures that what you make solves real problems, rather than just things you think are a great idea.
A lot of planning conversations don't produce tangible user stories. They produce a mix of half-formed requirements, design ideas, edge cases, and references to other systems, all flying back and forth, and possibly ending on a sticky note. By the time the meeting ends, the product manager has a page of notes and a couple of hours of work ahead turning them into a usable backlog.
Contented turns your recorded conversation into structured user stories. Each one is numbered, titled, and formatted in the standard Agile structure, with acceptance criteria captured underneath.
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How to use a user stories template
Record your planning meeting or workshop in the Contented app, pick the user stories template, and download a structured set of user stories within minutes.
1. Record your conversation
Capture the meeting in the Contented app. It's great for any type of planning conversation, sprint planning, design and dev kick-offs, discovery workshops, stakeholder interviews, or any session where requirements are being talked through.
2. Select the user stories template
Choose user stories from your Contented workspace. Contented works through the recording, identifies each distinct user requirement raised in the conversation, and structures it as a properly-formed user story with role, want, reason, and acceptance criteria.
3. Review and export
Download as PDF or Word within minutes. Use it as the basis for backlog grooming, hand to engineering for sprint planning, or share with stakeholders for sign-off.
Who uses a user stories template?
Anyone running planning conversations who needs to leave with structured user stories instead of a page of notes.
A few examples:
- Product managers running discovery sessions, sprint planning, or stakeholder interviews.
- Designers and design leads working with product on feature definition, where the stories anchor the brief.
- Engineering leads and tech leads joining planning sessions, who need stories with acceptance criteria before they can scope.
- UX researchers turning user interviews into actionable requirements that engineers can build from.
- Agencies running client workshops, where the client's vision needs translating into a format the build team can use.
- Marketing and e-commerce teams scoping site or product changes.
What's in a user stories template?
- Each user story numbered and given a descriptive title.
- The standard user story format applied to every entry: As a [role], I want [feature], so that [outcome].
- Roles drawn from the conversation, whether that's a job function or a customer type.
- Acceptance criteria captured as a bulleted list under each story, including timing conditions and edge cases where they were mentioned in the conversation.
- Stories ordered by the priority that emerged in the discussion, not the order they came up.
- Export-ready as PDF or Word.
FAQs
Yes. Contented is built to handle diverse accents, multiple speakers, background noise, and technical or industry-specific vocabulary. Templated outputs can be generated in any language, making it practical for multilingual teams and organisations operating across different regions.
They're automatically deleted from the device once the recording has been successfully uploaded to your encrypted workspace. Audio never sits on personal devices longer than necessary, which matters for organisations with BYOD policies.
Any conversation, anywhere. Contented can record online, in person, even in your car. No meeting bot required. Capture client meetings, strategy sessions, board meetings, HR discussions, interviews, team catch-ups, conference debriefs, even your long solo musings on the beach.