 |
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.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 2.1.3 Addresses several usability issues with comments and multiple project windows, and offers stability enhancements. Specifically:
- Positioning the cursor directly after a comment or bookmark and typing or pasting text no longer causes the newline in the text following the marker be missing when the file is reopened.
- Hidden comments and bookmarks are now considered to be outside a selected range when they are positioned at either boundary of the range. Previously, they were considered to be inside the range and would be deleted if the range was deleted, which led to some confusion if the comment or bookmark was placed between two sentences.
- Storyist no longer moves the first of two adjacent comments or bookmarks back by one character when you toggle comment or bookmark visibility.
- Storyist no longer shows a newly opened project as edited if the project was saved with comments visible.
- The main project window is no longer reset to its initial position when you open a second window for the same project.
- Section word counts are again properly displayed in the Outline view word count column when you open a file saved with comments visible. Previously, the section word counts would show an incorrect value until you toggled comment visibility.
- RTFD export no longer fails silently on Snow Leopard.
- Storyist no longer crashes in certain circumstances on Tiger when adding chapters or sections while the Outline view is open.
- Storyist no longer crashes in certain circumstances after you close a split view in which the manuscript is no longer in the history list.
10/30/09: Storyist 2.1.2 offers enhancements for working with numbered and bulleted lists and resolves some Snow Leopard issues. Specifically:
- Pressing the Return key at the end of a paragraph that is part of a list now automatically inserts a list bullet/number on the following line.
- Numbered lists now renumber correctly in certain cases where fragments of other lists are pasted into the list.
- Newly opened files now properly show the document state as unedited.
- Storyist no longer crashes on Snow Leopard when you type Ctrl+Cmd+D to look up a word in the dicitonary.
- Storyist no longer stops responding to mouse clicks on Snow Leopard if you execute undo immediately after opening a file.
- Storyist no longer crashes if you close a document while an item in the project view is being edited.
- The Project view no longer temporarily stops responding to clicks in certain circumstances after you close several split views in a particular order.
- The "next style" behavior is now consistent after you edit a style so that the "Next" style is set to the style being edited.
- Automatic section/scene creation now defaults to "off" in the templates.
09/28/09: Storyist 2.1.1 contains several usability improvements for Snow Leopard.
- Blank location completions no longer cause Storyist to stop processing keyboard input on Snow Leopard in certain circumstances.
- Storyist no longer freezes when autocompleting in sheets on Snow Leopard if items are not separated by whitespace or commas.
- The Edit Outline button is again enabled. This was inadvertently disabled in 2.1.
- Storyist no longer leaves messages in the console log saying that STStyleAction appears in two Automator actions.
09/16-09: Storyist 2.1 adds several Snow Leopard-only features, improves performance when working with large files, and addresses a couple of usability issues. Specifically:
New Features
- Storyist can optionally auto-correct spelling mistakes as you type. E.g "teh" -> "the". (Snow Leopard only)
- Storyist can automatically substitute em dashes for two hyphens as you type. (Snow Leopard only)
- Storyist can automatically replace text with predefined substitutions as you type. E.g. "( c )" -> ©. (Snow Leopard only)
- The Apply Styles by Matching Text command now also imports styles as necessary so that the resulting manuscript contains the styles as well as the formatting.
- The Stage Play template now has additional tab- and return-key shortcuts for Act, Scene Header, and Stage Direction.
Performance Enhancements
- The Apply Styles by Matching Text command is now significantly faster.
- Pasting large amounts of text from other applications is now much faster.
- Opening large files is now faster, and on Snow Leopard, significantly faster.
Bug Fixes
- Storyist now handles corrupt image files more gracefully.
- Storyist no longer deletes section titles in certain circumstances when the corresponding linked section sheets are deleted from the trash.
- Emptying the trash when it contains bookmarks no longer causes Storyist to delete the corresponding file in certain circumstances.
- Comments in headings no longer cause the manuscript to open as an XML file in certain circumstances.
- The project word count in the inspector now displays the correct word count for the project. In version 2.0.2, it displayed the sum of the project word count and the current session.
- The "Conflict" field is now available in the section sheet context menus.
- The internal "Bound Resource" field no longer appears as a field option in the section sheet menus.
- Tool tip descriptions for certain pages in the Help file no longer display placeholder text.
- Storyist now properly sets the page margins when the system default page size is something other than US Letter.
- The Page Setup command again lets you change the manuscript page size.
- The print settings are now stored with the project.
- When opening version 1 projects, Storyist no longer shows the missing images icon if the file name of the image contains certain non-ASCII characters.
Other Changes
The license installation process has changed. Starting with version 2.1, writers who purchase Storyist receive a license code (serial number) instead of a license file, and the Trial dialog now accepts these codes. This change allows for the boxed edition to be sold in stores and also, hopefully, will reduce the number of license emails that are flagged by overly aggressive spam filters.
The old license file format is still supported, however. If you need to reinstall your license file, simply drag it to the application. Click the Help button in the Trial dialog for details.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
| SCREENSHOT
|
|
 |
|  |
 | |  |
| Storyist User Reviews (6 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Nov 2 2009 |
SOUTHPAWAMI It seems there is a rather distracted view of this software. I think I remember paying $25 for the 1.x version I believe, and I'm still happy with it. At that time, Storyist was a very hot piece of software that everyone was happy with getting. My 1.5.2 version still serves me well, and has several features I still don't have a handle on(like the auto linking which interferes with typing if you don't know what's happening). And this software has most everything that's useful to me except a full dark screen with green or yellow type for typing. I'm sure this 2.x version isn't as bad people are making it out to be.
(Version 2.1.2) | |
| [ 1 Reply - Reply ] | |
Replies:
 | Nov 14 2009 |
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/ Storyist Software
(Version 2.1.3) | |
| Jan 12 2009 |
COCOANUT I basically like the software but it has an exceedingly annoying shareware reminder that shows itself every few minutes. Developers need to realize that this type of shareware reminder actually backfires and results in more people like me closing the application before giving it a good shakedown. I would that the developer drop the hard sell!
(Version 1.5.2) | |
| [ 1 Reply - Reply ] | |
Replies:
| Feb 3 2009 |
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"? Storyist Software
(Version 1.5.2) | |
| Jan 15 2008 |
I saw this pop up in my MacUpdate RSS and thought it might be useful. So I was going to give it a spin, but there's no way I'm going to pay $59 for story outline software with a few extra bells and whistles, no matter how nice it looks. I really like the corkboard visual layout with photos for characters, but for my purposes, it's better to create a slimmed-down version without any word processing functions for, say, $20. That way, I can stick with Pages, Word, Bean or WriteRoom for writing and use Storyist exclusively for conceptualization and outlines.
(Version 1.3.5) | |
| [ 1 Reply - Reply ] | |
Replies:
| Jan 16 2008 |
I'm the developer of Storyist. Thanks for your interest and for the kind words on the corkboard. I'd like to point out that Storyist is more than a story outliner with bells and whistles. In addition to the outlining tools, it provides a word processor with a page layout view and support for headers, footers, and style sheets, a Wiki, and a project manager with fast, project-wide search capabilities. I encourage you to download it and give it a spin. If you are at Macworld this week, please stop by our booth (S-205). We have a show special price of $45 and I'd be delighted to give you a demo. And if you're not going to be at the show, you can get the show price with the coupon MACWORLD2008 at our online store. Thanks again for your interest in Storyist. | |
| Jun 8 2007 |
THOTH-2 First let me say that I'm in the Storyist Beta Users group and have been using the product for several months now. That said, I have to point out that it simply isn't a general purpose word processor. It isn't ment to be. It does, however, seamlessly merge word processing and database management features in an effort to solve a problem most WPs don't address: minimizing distractions from the creative process. What Storyist does is make it simple to create, maintain and refer back to all story elements and notes without breaking your train of thought. MS Word attempts to do this (halfheartedly) with NoteBook View. Dramatica tries to do this in a rigid and overly complicated process (IMHO). Storyist handles the data and keeps out of the writer's way. It's not perfect but it does what it claims to do better than any other WP I've seen.
(Version 1.2) | |
| [ Reply ] | |
| Jan 12 2007 |
GAZMAN Can't open .rtf, Word documents or import projects from other applications, e.g. CopyWrite. Until these things happen this program won't be finding a permanent home in my Applications folder.
(Version 1.0) | |
| [ 1 Reply - Reply ] | |
Replies:
| May 29 2007 |
Thanks for trying Storyist. You'll find RTF, Word, HTML, and text-only import and export in version 1.1 and later.
(Version 1.2) | |
| Jan 11 2007 |
LORD LIGHTNING This is strangely familiar. Quite like Scrivener. A bit like Avenir and a bit like Jer's NW. It even feels a bit like Montage. The templates will attract users because they are visual and well crafted. The Wiki link approach will also attract users. Is it a worthy competitor for Scrivener? Not even remotely. Pretty though!
(Version 1.0) | |
| [ Reply ] | |
|
| |
|
