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Product Description:
Storyist is a powerful story development tool for novelists and screenwriters.
With an intuitive interface that puts you in control, Storyist provides:
- A word processor with a page layout view and support for headers, footers, and style sheets.
- A storyboard with customizable story sheets for tracking your plot, characters, and settings.
- A project manager with fast, project-wide search capabilities to keep your writing organized and accessible.
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
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| Overall Rating: |   (3.0) |
Features: | (5.0) |
Support: | (2.0) |
| Ease of Use: | (1.0) |
Quality / Stability: | (5.0) |
Price: | (4.0) |
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Beautiful, Amazing, Impossible. - Version: 2.0.2, 8/20/2009 12:56AM PST
thestuntman
I was surprised to see that Storyist 2 has reached 2.0.2 and no one has yet reviewed or commented on it, because it is a beautiful and elaborate program that has so much promise for organizing and creating great work. I was very excited to see the interface on my first run in demo mode, I almost paid for it then and there. But I held off to give it a true spin since I already own most every writing tool out there -- just in case I decide to LOVE one of them. Well, first off I decided to import a short, six chaptered children's book into Storyist and everything looked great at a glance. However, looking closer, three of the six chapters didn't start on a new page. So I tried to fix one and it suddenly stopped being a chapter. No big deal, I'll just format it as a chapter and everything will be a-okay. So go to make it a "chapter" again and... wow. Just wow. An hour later, after reading the template walk-through over and over, after perusing the Getting Started Guide in the program itself, and of course reading "Adding Chapters" chapters in both locations, trying this, trying that, I just walked away. A pretty icon, wonderful GUI, great feature set, but when a user can't even add a chapter in a novel writing program? Oh, I'm sure I can do it, but the fact that I actually put effort into it and can't figure out one of the most basic things someone would try to do with this program, it was... shocking, frankly. So back to Scrivener and StoryMill and Jer's Novel Writer and Ulysses I go -- still trying to LOVE one of them. Sigh.
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- Beautiful, Amazing, Impossible.
Storyist integrates word processing and database management. - Version: 1.2, 6/8/2007 03:59PM PST
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sedelstein2
I'd like to point out that Storyist simply isn't a general purpose word processor. It isn't ment to be. It's not meant for presentation graphics or tech manuals. It does, however, seamlessly merge word processing and database management features in an effort to solve a problem most WPs cannot effectively address: minimizing distractions from the creative process.
What Storyist does is make it simple to create, maintain and refer back to all story elements (plot, characters, settings, etcetera) and notes without breaking your train of thought. The WP heavyweight, MS Word, attempts to do this (halfheartedly) with NoteBook View. Dramatica tries to do this in a rigid and overly complicated process (IMHO). Other approaches simply have you dump your data, unorganized, into another file and search for it when needed. To be blunt, handling the data needed to create a novel is rarely effectively integrated into the WP.
Storyist handles the data, makes it easily available, and keeps out of the writer's way. It's not perfect but it does this better than any other WP I've seen (so far).
What Storyist does is make it simple to create, maintain and refer back to all story elements (plot, characters, settings, etcetera) and notes without breaking your train of thought. The WP heavyweight, MS Word, attempts to do this (halfheartedly) with NoteBook View. Dramatica tries to do this in a rigid and overly complicated process (IMHO). Other approaches simply have you dump your data, unorganized, into another file and search for it when needed. To be blunt, handling the data needed to create a novel is rarely effectively integrated into the WP.
Storyist handles the data, makes it easily available, and keeps out of the writer's way. It's not perfect but it does this better than any other WP I've seen (so far).
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