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Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Oct 25, 2012 at 05:37 AM
WSP wrote:
>Thanks for this suggestion. I downloaded Story Lite and played around with it a
>little. I’m still not clear whether the individual notes can be imported from
>external rtf and text files, or whether perhaps the notes can only be created within
>the program.
My impression is that, as yet, notes can only be ‘imported’ via copy/paste (in StoryTurbo too). I understand that ST is considered the ‘starting point’ of one’s textual work.
>I’d love to be able to save my notes in individual rtf/text files, bring
>them into something like RightNote for basic organization, and then manipulate them
>further at the writing stage with something like Story.
I believe that other tools, possibly like WhizFolders or Scrivener, might be more suitable for this kind of work at both of the stages you describe.
Posted by Dr Andus
Nov 1, 2012 at 03:27 PM
Dr Andus wrote:
>As I found my “intelligent cork board for index
>cards” in Outline 4D/StoryView 2.0, I’m no longer looking, but just for the record,
>here is another (new) offering in this area:
>Story Lite and Story Turbo
>http://www.storylite.com/
>http://www.storyturbo.com/
I did find a use for Story Turbo in the end. Here is a mini case study on how I used it to organise my physical book library:
http://drandus.wordpress.com/2012/11/01/organising-your-library-with-story-turbo/
Posted by Dr Andus
Nov 1, 2012 at 05:24 PM
Dr Andus wrote:
>Story Lite and Story Turbo
>http://www.storylite.com/
>http://www.storyturbo.com/
I see that Story Lite is no longer free. It’s described as “price dropped to 95c!” and “buy intro offer 50% discount.” Hm… Though it’s still very cheap. Story Turbo is unchanged at 99 cents. I guess the main difference is that the latter has image support. I suppose that’s worth extra 4 cents…
Posted by Dr Andus
Nov 17, 2012 at 02:50 AM
While looking for index card type applications I also came across an app called Throughline 1.0. Now, this could be a false positive, but Malwarebytes Anti-Malware just flagged it up as Trojan.backdoor, so I thought I’d warn people about it.
The file is called throughline-demo.exe
(I can’t remember where I downloaded it from exactly.)
Story Turbo is far better anyway.
Posted by Dr Andus
Nov 23, 2012 at 02:06 AM
Speaking of infinite virtual corkboards, VUE can be used that way as well.
Pros: Free. Very fast to use (good for brainstorming). Can be easily converted into a concept map, by connecting the “index cards” with arrows.
Cons: poor exporting options (only PDF), so better to use it as a visualisation tool only, rather than as part of text development (for that Story Turbo would be a better option).