Re: LiquidStoryBinder

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Posted by stephenz
2005-07-08 13:22:38

Graham,

Oh, I wasn’t concerned that you didn’t give me credit for mentioning LiquidStoryBinder, I just was making you aware of the fact that you weren’t actually getting a second opinion on the product.

> I have downloaded it and hope to give a look, I haven’t yet really found what I am looking for in a writing tool, not helped by not actually knowing what I am looking for :-(

I sympathize, as I feel the same. If I were a wizard software programmer, the product I’d work on is not a word processor, but a writing processor. Here are some of the features it would have:

1. A single-pane outliner with inline text (that is, text that the outliner understood was not a separate heading, but was connected to its own heading) that could be viewed in its own window.

2. The ability to view the outline flattened in a separate editor window, while being able to view the outline in its own window. This way you could be aware of the structure, but also view and work on your project as a whole piece… or, select just a few headings from the outline to view in the editor. This way, you can focus as narrowly or as widely as you want. In this model, the outline serves both as a structure builder/organizer, and as a navigator from which you select how much to put in the editor at one time.

3. A free-form note database, in which you can associate each note with one or multiple headings of any outline. Click on a heading, and see list of associated notes in a separate window.

This is probably not possible, and certainly not likely. But I can dream, can’t I.

Steve Z.

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