Re: Writer's Blocks 3

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Posted by sbrt
2005-07-29 16:27:53

I agree with Steve. I tried Writer’s Blocks and said “so what?”. I didn’t understand its value, I just don’t see how it could help in my writing process.

I’ve become a very satisfied user of SuperNoteCard from Mindola Software, especially because the author made all features I asked for (color codes for plots, flatten mode…).

I don’t know if we can compare easily nxdCard and SuperNoteCard. Writers need a way to structure data along a timeline, and see how things are linked and tangled up through time. This is where SuperNotecard comes in. But that’s not all. There are other data parallel to the story (background stories, character profiles, etc.) and they can’t be structured in SNC but in a (two-pane) outliner. I tend to use Treepad for that, and I don’t think ndxCard could replace it… or maybe with the new “project feature”. I’ll give it a try, but IMHO ndxCard should not be compared to SNC (which is very specific and dedicated to fiction writers) but to general outliners and information managers.

Sebastien

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