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POWERMACDADDY Trenino: Not sure why, if Montage is so bad, you keep using it. And why you're comparing a screenwriting program with a novel-writing program puzzles me. Two different audiences. Personally, I haven't had the issues you're describing, and think the 2-star rating you gave it is totally unfair. I took a 1.2 document and went to 1.5.... no problems. Oh, and after I upgraded to 1.5 it opened a "Tutorial Monkey" tutorial file automatically. Have you even used 1.5? Some other things that makes me wonder if you've even used Montage for longer than 5 minutes: 1) Annotations: apple-shift-A allows you to make a new annotation. no need for a button, no need to go to the menu. Nice for keeping your hands on the keyboard and writing rather than reaching for the mouse. 2) Keyword/tagging: Works well for me... apple-shift-T makes a new keyword/tag and it's displayed in the left-hand column. Again, it allows me to keep my hands on the keyboard and keep typing. I can sit back and enter 10 keywords rapid-fire as fast as I can type. 3) You claim that "Exporting is so unintuitive in Montage." Montage exports 1 thing and 1 thing only: THE SCRIPT. What's to check? What's unintuitive about that? You select Export, pick your file format and destination, and you're done. Oh, and it can read and write Final Draft format, which is a HUGE plus. It seems to me that you are missing the fact that StoryMill is written for the workflow of a novelist, where Montage is written for the workflow of a screenwriter. Screenplays are typically much more rigid in their outline/structure than novels/stories tend to be. (Which is why most movie adaptations of books wind up changing parts of the book to make the movie version "screenplay friendly.") It seems to me that most of your gripes revolve around the fact that you think like a novelist, not a screenwriter, which is why StoryMill appeals to you more than Montage. Don't give a good product with a bright future a bad review because your workflow/method of thinking is different. Comparing Montage with StoryMill is like comparing TextEdit with TextWrangler... while both are full-featured, they each have a different target audience: one is a word processor, the other a text editor. Why don't you compare Montage with Final Draft? Does Montage need some interface tweaks? Certainly. All programs do. But needing mere "tweaks" makes it worthy of 4 stars, not 2. (Version 1.5) |