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Storyist Software LLC.
Storyist is a powerful story development tool for novelists and screenwriters.
With an intuitive interface that puts you in control, Storyist provides:
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.
What's New
Version 2.3.5:
- Adds support for exporting outlines, and addresses several minor issues. Specifically:
- Outlines can now be exported as RTF and OPML. To export an outline, choose File > Export and then choose "Outline" from the Export popup.
- The Plot, Character, Setting, and Notebook toolbar icons no longer split the editing view if it isn't already split.
- JPEG images are no longer converted to PNG format when exporting to an ePub document.
- Pages are now centered properly when running on Mac OS X 10.7. Previously, the first time you navigated to a project item, it would be displayed left-aligned rather than centered in certain circumstances.
- Default character, plot, and setting images are now presented at the correct resolution in collages on Mac OS X 10.7. Previously, they were presented in low-res in certain circumstances.
Version 2.3.5:
- Adds support for exporting outlines, and addresses several minor issues. Specifically:
- Outlines can now be exported as RTF and OPML. To export an outline, choose File > Export and then choose "Outline" from the Export popup.
- The Plot, Character, Setting, and Notebook toolbar icons no longer split the editing view if it isn't already split.
- JPEG images more...
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4.11 or later
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4.11 or later
Storyist User Discussion (Write a Review)
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| Downloads:11,050 |
| Version Downloads:320 |
| Type:Business : Word Processing |
| License:Demo |
| Date:27 Dec 2011 |
| Platform:PPC / Intel |
| Price: $59.00 |
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Storyist is a powerful story development tool for novelists and screenwriters.
With an intuitive interface that puts you in control, Storyist provides:
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.
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Hutchisonb reviewed on 25 Sep 2011
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Drfrank reviewed on 02 Nov 2010
Storyist: I liked the icon, the program name, the website, the manual, the videos, hey, I even liked the developer's voice, but the preceding list certainly wasn't why I purchased Storyist. Sure, it's a cocoa app, and 64 bit, but frankly, both programs are carefully crafted and share remarkably similar features. I purchased Storyist because of the almost inexplicable joy that you experience when you sit down and use very thoughtfully engineered software. Bluntly, using Storyist pushed my 'happy' button. It's cliché to call software elegant, but Storyist is ELEGANT. If you have a story to tell...
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Miner reviewed on 18 Sep 2010
Fort apps like these, personal taste is more important than any other, imo, and amazingly If found that the touch of extra structure and discipline Storyist imposes on my writing works like a charm. It is full featured, and for now my winner, by a nose length, over Scrivener, which is quite a feat in itself.
Of course, the next Scrivener which is just around the corner might change all that again. What a blessed platform the Mac is!
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And good luck with this year's NaNoWriMo.
I just want to mention that Storyist has some great things just around the corner too! Version 2.3 (released today) creates Kindle editions and includes a theme manager so you can customize interface fonts, colors, and storyboard backgrounds.
Next up: Storyist for iPad
-Steve
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The little bug concerning .docx import was found and will be corrected in the coming version. It happens only to .docx files whose type (.docx) is not displayed in the Finder. Meanwhile, if necessary, it suffices adding .docx to the names of the files to import.
For the other issues, it is just a matter of getting used to Storyist. This app is quite versatile but it takes some (well deserved) training to become freer than without Storyist. 5 stars.
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It demonstrates two things:
- your attention and quick reply to customers' trouble
- the complexity of an (any ?) authoring software, as illustrated by the many links you have provided and the importance of the users' FORUM.
I was dreaming of something more intuitive with a softer learning curve. Instead, my demo time is almost completed with no significant progress neither in the novel I am writing nor in the mastering of Storyist.
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I appreciated the quick reply to my review. But I disliked the inadequacy of its content.
I can believe that the Storyist demo.dmg that I have recently downloaded through Mac-update may have been incomplete. I suppose so because of the reply I got (see below) and because I have found that it was named "Storyist-AutoUpdate-2.1.5.dmg".
Therefore, as advised in the reply, I have re-downloaded the demo form storyist.com, I eventually got a newer and hopefully complete demo called 2.2.6.
HOWEVER : the .docx files are still impossible to import. When trying from storyist, the files names are dimmed as inaccessible (I had firsdt checked with Finder info that they were fully readable and writable). And when trying to open them from the file (using "open with Storyist"), one gets a message saying "Storyist cannot open files in the Microsoft Word document format"
I have also downloaded the guide.pdf from storyist site (indispensable and lacking in both demo files). It is clearer than the help menu but it is just a list of features illustrated with some screenshots, not a tutorial.
To sum : I feel that I have lost time and money (I pay the downloaded megas). Storyist may be a good product, but the demo and the so-called "Guide" are IRKSOME.
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I wasn't trying to be funny (I apologize if it came off that way), I was trying to help.
You said you were frustrated by the lack of a guide, specifically a PDF version. Fortunately, both a PDF an an online version are available in addition to the in-application Help, so I posted the links for you.
In case it helps, here are some of the support resources accessible from within the program:
* Getting Started Guide (Help > Show Getting Started Guide). This is a Storyist project that gives a brief introduction to Storying and points out some of the cool features for people who just want a quick intro and don't want to RTFM.
* User's Guide (Help > Storyist Help). This (or the PDF or online version) covers the program in more detail. Example chapters include "Working with Text," "Working with Storyboards," Tracking Word Count and Writing Time Goals," and "Saving and Backing Up Your Work." See http://storyist.com/support/users-guide/
* The Support Site (Help > Visit Storyist Website). This has a list of available help resources, which include instructions for opening a support ticket if you want.
* The Storyist Forums (Help > Visit Storyist Forums). A link to the user forums. As I mentioned in the previous reply, this is an active user community and you'll find many helpful writers there.
You might also be interested in the Storyist for Screenwriters screencast at
http://s3.amazonaws.com/storyist/Storyist-for-Screenwriters.mov
Also, you said that you got the message "An importer for this format is not registered with Storyist." You would get this if the docx importer was missing. Storyist importers are built as Automator Action plugins (http://storyist.com/support/developers/plugins/) and registered with the program at startup. The docx converter is packaged with the app, so my first guess was that the install was incomplete.
This issue hasn't come up in the forums before, and the only hit when you Google the error message is your post here. That doesn't mean it isn't happening, though, and I'd be happy to help you track it down.
Please do contact me at the support address or in the forums if you'd like to follow up.
-Steve
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- no "Read me" file or .pdf guide to be printed and used conveniently in parallel with the ongoing work. Only an help menu.
- impossible to import Word.docx documents (using a New MacBook Pro with Snow Leopard). Instead, one gets a cryptic, undocumented and not engaging message "An importer for this format is not registered with Storyist". ????
- Many examples in the help menu do not correspond to the actual menus in Storyist
- The image imported to the "collage view" are pasted below instead of upon the relevant window.
To sum : it seems that this app is not completely updated nor ready for Snow Leopard and IT LACKS A PROPER GUIDE; the help window does not suffice, even with the large example within it.
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Actually, there is both a PDF and an online version of the User's Guide (and also a 76 page printed version), in addition to the Apple Help.
http://storyist.com/support/index.html
http://storyist.com/support/users-guide/welcome/
And Storyist does import .docx (and .doc, .rtf, .html, .txt, Open Office, and Final Draft).
http://storyist.com/support/users-guide/getting-started/#ug-importing-a-file
It sounds like perhaps you got an incomplete download. If you'd care to contact me at support at the domain storyist dot com, I'd be happy to help you. There is also an active user community at forums.storyist.com who are very responsive.
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Or, at least the addition of support for wiki links to notes that can be exported as proper footnotes or endnotes.
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Thanks for the comment. I can't say I get many requests for footnotes in fiction, but the folks using Storyist for reports and other non-fiction would certainly like to see this feature. I'm interested in hearing how you use footnotes (as opposed to comments) in your fiction writing. Drop by the Storyist forums (forums.storyist.com) if you feel like discussing it.
Note that Storyist does support comments in the manuscript, so you can at least collect the information for later conversion into footnotes.
Regards,
Steve Shepard
Storyist Software
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I'm sure this 2.x version isn't as bad people are making it out to be.
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Thanks for the comment. I'm glad Storyist 1.5.2 serves you well.
I encourage you to check out version 2, which has a full-screen editing mode and is getting great reviews from users and the Mac press alike. For instance, John Martellaro at The Mac Observer writes
"Storyist, for me, was more fun to use than any of the other novel/screenplay creation tools. ... Because of that intangible feeling of using a thoughtful, finely crafted tool, the scope of the features, and the (available) printed manual, I'm rating Storyist one notch above all the rest."
You'll find more reviews and user comments here:
http://storyist.com/features/testimonials/
Regards,
Steve Shepard
Storyist Software
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I'm the developer of Storyist and I'm delighted that you basically like the software. But a little puzzled.
In Storyist, the only trial reminder is the dialog that appears when you launch the app telling you how many days you have remaining in your trial. There are NO nag dialogs that appear after that while you're writing. Perhaps you are seeing an auto-update dialog (which you'll see if you choose to have Storyist automatically check for updates and an update is available) and are dismissing it by clicking "Remind Me Later"?
Regards,
Steve Shepard
Storyist Software
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Leonledragon rated on 28 Dec 2011
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Reel_mac rated on 20 Feb 2011