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StoryLines Features
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Drag and drop cards
Arrange your ideas graphically in cards, along as many tracks as
you wish
Enter as much or as little as you like
Each card holds a description, plus optional information: time, location, annotation,
dialogue, and an image.
Dialogue highlighting as you type
If you're typing a play or screenplay, StoryLines can colour your dialogue,
understanding elements such as cues, action, and transitions (Windows only).
Text import
Import existing text, and rapidly create new cards from selected paragraphs.
Instant reports
As soon as you have made an edit, a linear version will be updated
in the Report window; you can choose from a selection of report styles,
each with its own preview to help you see how it will format your project.
Outline view
You can see an outline tree view to the left of your tracks window,
for quick navigation
File export
Export your project in report form to your favourite word processor
or screenwriting software, in OpenOffice writer, plain text or HTML format
Make HTML Help books
Export your project to Windows HTML Help format (on Windows) or cross-platform
HelpView HTML Help (all platforms).
Story details
StoryLines provides fields for you to fill in important aspects
of your story, such as genre, concept, pitch and so on.
Character profiles
Add details about each of your characters with the Character Profiles tool.
Story locations
Describe each of your locations with the Story Locations tool.
Copy and paste
Copy or cut a card or several cards, and paste to the appropriate
place in your project.
Spelling checker
Check for typos with the built-in spellchecker, available
in a number of languages.
Pockets
Store cards that don't yet have a home in a Pocket, for
placing on a storyline later.
Undo/Redo
Undo/redo your major edits, all the way back to where you last
saved the project
Online help
Comprehensive online help is supplied, as well as tooltips and
context-sensitive help for dialogs. Check out the Quick Tour
for a bird's eye view of StoryLines.
Highly customizable
Tailor the way your project looks by changing fonts, colours
and even use bitmap tiles for the tracks window and cards; hide
windows that you don't need
Keyboard shortcuts for high-speed editing
Use keyboard shortcuts to make editing your projects fast and natural
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Writer's Café Desk Features
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Getting Started Guide
A friendly 10-page guide to Writer's Café to read on-screen or print out.
It's illustrated with screenshots and includes tables of shortcuts for
Writer's Café Desk and StoryLines.
Print it out, or view it on-screen using Adobe Acrobat.
Notebook
Instantly record your ideas in the ever-present notebook:
use as many pages as you want.
No time-wasting filename choice is required, unless you
wish to have multiple notebooks.
Journal
The journal opens at today's date and like the notebook,
is always available for you to record the day's
ideas.
Scrapbook
The scrapbook is where you can keep your research
and random ideas: notes, pictures,
document and web links, and collages. With a collage
scrap, you can add coloured shapes with text or images, and
connect them with plain or arrowed lines.
On Windows, use auto-paste to quickly paste scraps by copying text,
graphics or web links twice in succession in any other application.
Writing Cookies
Enjoy a collection of Harriet Smart's favourite
writing quotations: one a day, or click to view further
random gems.
Writing Prompts
Exercise your writing muscle with writing prompts:
you get a random subject and (optionally) a time limit.
Paste this into the notebook or journal and get writing.
Great for beating block.
Fiction: The Facts
Harriet Smart's distillation of 20 years' writing experience,
in an e-book that you can either browse on-screen or print.
The chapter titles are: Introduction, Beginnings,
What If, Characterisation, Genre, Point of View, Setting,
Conflict, Shape and Structure, Troubleshooting Your Story,
Getting Published, and Final Thoughts.
Click here for more information.
Bookshelf
The Bookshelf allows you to browse Writer's Café
manuals and Fiction: The Facts from within
Writer's Café desk.
Slideshow
Shows your image and collage scraps in succession,
in a window or full-screen.
Backup Facility
The File Manager tool gives you an easy way to back up your
precious files, without resorting to an additional tool.
Specify File Sets that include all files of a given
type, and create a backup with just a few clicks. You can
also easily restore files from a backup archive.
Slideshow
Shows your image and collage scraps in succession,
in a window or full-screen.
Café Menu
Access to more tools and applications is available
via the Café Menu tab. You can add your favourite
writing applications here too.
Forty Thieves
Best-selling British novelist Georgette Heyer used to dream up her books while playing patience.
We've provided a patience game for you, too.
A thesaurus at your fingertips
The excellent 'Aiksaurus' thesaurus is bundled with Writer's Café,
and you can quickly invoke it from the Help menu or using a shortcut.
Customizable
Specify notebook and journal font styles and sizes; and brighten
up window backgrounds with the supplied textures, or your own.
Also on the CD-ROM
The CD-ROM also contains OpenOffice.org for Windows, Linux
and Mac, and Adobe Acrobat Reader for reading and printing Writer's Café documentation.
OpenOffice.org is a capable open-source office suite, compatible
with StoryLines.