Organize plots, characters and scenarios for your next book
They say everybody should write a book, plant a tree and have a kid. I've decided to follow this wise rule of three, but as I'm not sure about the order of elements, I'm going to start by the book. And no other tool could be more helpful in this personal project than Storybook.
Storybook enables you to organize all the elements regarding your book, namely characters, locations and different plots, including main story and secondary threads. Storybook defines and configures each element on their own, which makes the whole job much easier because it enables you to have a clearer view of your book's structure. Plus, Storybook lets you have multiple active projects (books) as you want, and also organize elements on its interface by following color codes.
Bear in mind that this is no word processor. It's more of an organized database where you keep small bits of information which, once properly developed and linked together, will produce a book.
Whenever you plan to write a book, Storybook is a really helpful tool that will assist you in the creation, management and organization of ideas, characters and locations.
translated to Greek, Swedish, French, Finnishimproved object treefixed bug: Export of Character List failsFrench translation completedimplemented feature column order of strandsexported files can be opened directly nowNew feature: Task Listthe manage lists for characters, locations etc. has been improvedimproved layoutNew feature: scale for book and manage viewtranslated to FinnishNew feature: navigation: go to a dateimproved date localizationNew feature: navigation: go to a chapter numberNew feature: Scene text import / exportupdated H2 Database Engine to version 1.0.79 (2008-09-26)
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translated to Greek, Swedish, French, Finnishimproved object treefixed bug: Export of Character List failsFrench translation completedimplemented feature column order of strandsexported files can be opened directly nowNew feature: Task Listthe manage lists for characters, locations etc. has been improvedimproved layoutNew feature: scale for book and manage viewtranslated to FinnishNew feature: navigation: go to a dateimproved date localizationNew feature: navigation: go to a chapter numberNew feature: Scene text import / exportupdated H2 Database Engine to version 1.0.79 (2008-09-26)
User reviews about Storybook
by Emma
It seemed like a good program in the description but downloading it it turned out to be just a single file called file. It can't be open as a program or as a wizard and if you open it with wordpad you get this Í!¸LÍ!This program cannot be run in DOS mode.$ EäPÿuÿPr@ -and 500 more pages of the same thing. Don't download is it is a waste of time More
by TimeKeeperTailon
when attempting to download it just says file which is also file format and you can do nothing with it.
by Anonymous
Just. Great. I LOVE IT!!!.
I love this thing! It's so so so so so great I love it! The way you can store characters, locations... It's so easy to write your book and not need to open 100 files at once to see all the characters and stuff. Thank you for making this!!!
Pros:
Storing characters and locations
Writing bits and pieces (it's my style)
Basically everything else
Cons:
I think you should be able to add pictures, black and white ones, maybe. Or pictures for locations and characters. More
by Soumyanath Chatterjee
Promising software but Linux version is full of bugs..
I used storybook in Windows. I have now migrated to ubuntu. Unfortunately ubuntu version is broken. It gives multiple error.
Pros:
Good interface. I like the thread feature. More
by Anonymous
Good free program. There is no paid part anymore..
I, too, paid for the software. The DRM server is offline. However, the free part of the program is still very good for outlining a book. Use at your own risk. More
by Anonymous
I wish I could have my software back.
I loved it. But I too have lost functionality that I paid for.
Cons: The software! I want it back... More