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Stone Table Software
Z-Write is a word processor designed for creative writers. In the process of writing a story, writers tend to create dozens or even hundreds of pages of notes, character bios, rewrites, reminders, and bits of research info. Organizing all that material within the linear structure of a traditional word processor is awkward at best.
Z-Write allows you to create an unlimited number of Sections and each Section can have as much or as little text as you'd like. You can create Sections for each of your main characters, with their biographies and other details neatly together. You
Z-Write allows you to create an unlimited number of Sections and each Section can have as much or as little text as you'd like. You can create Sections for each of your main characters, with their biographies and other details neatly together. You
What's New
Version 1.5.77: Release notes were unavailable when this listing was updated.
Requirements
Intel/PPC, Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later
Intel/PPC, Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later
| Downloads:8,151 |
| Version Downloads:188 |
| Type:Business : Word Processing |
| License:Shareware |
| Date:02 Feb 2012 |
| Platform:PPC 32 / Intel 32 / OS X |
| Price:Free |
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Z-Write is a word processor designed for creative writers. In the process of writing a story, writers tend to create dozens or even hundreds of pages of notes, character bios, rewrites, reminders, and bits of research info. Organizing all that material within the linear structure of a traditional word processor is awkward at best.
Z-Write allows you to create an unlimited number of Sections and each Section can have as much or as little text as you'd like. You can create Sections for each of your main characters, with their biographies and other details neatly together. You could use Sections for individual Chapters, if you'd like. Whatever you do, Z-Write makes it easier to find and keep track of a huge amount of divergent material.
Z-Write allows you to create an unlimited number of Sections and each Section can have as much or as little text as you'd like. You can create Sections for each of your main characters, with their biographies and other details neatly together. You could use Sections for individual Chapters, if you'd like. Whatever you do, Z-Write makes it easier to find and keep track of a huge amount of divergent material.
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Try here before you even waste the download bandwidth on this.
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/22995/scrivener
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Consider the free, Scrivener Gold, http://www.rumramruf.com/ScrivenerBeta/dlbeta/ScrivenerGold.dmg; MacJournal, and any other note taking software. If you want to pay, go for WriteItNow or StoryLines/WritersCafe. You'll find a description of them here: http://www.literatureandlatte.com/forum/
They are listed under 'Software by other folk'
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Anonymous reviewed on 06 Feb 2005
Being written in RealBasic, it doesn't take advantage of any of OS X's underlying technologies (services, automatic spell-check, etc).
There are dozens of programs for composing text and taking notes that are infintely more powerful. Some of them are free, and almost all shareware programs cost less than Z-Write. Have a look at Hog Bay Notebook or MacJournal and compare their features and interfaces to Z-Write - it's not the same league, it's not even the same sport.
Since the dev seems to know that his lack of vision and Cocoa programming skills won't enable him to come out with a competitive product, he obviously took his ball and went home. His website looks like it was abandoned around 2001, and the lack of progress he made with Z-Write makes paying for it a very risky investment. You will most likely buy an unsupported program.
Anonymous reviewed on 02 Nov 2004
Anonymous reviewed on 11 Oct 2004
The software's great, and I was looking forward to the 1.5 update- I even paid for it-- but the beta's expired and even appears to have disappeared from the stonetablesoftware.com webpage. Emails are not answered. If the author's got enough time to delete the beta from the webpage, he should put a message about the beta's status.
Anonymous reviewed on 20 Aug 2003