With NaNoWriMo in full swing, we’re proud to announce the coming release of our newest app, StoryLines! Free forever, it includes features to track all your story’s elements in one place, right alongside an editor designed just for writers. Check out all the cool features below!
- Track your story elements:
- Characters
- Groups
- Locations
- Events
- Items
- Build your outline:
- Synopses (from Elevator Pitch through expanded retelling)
- Scene list
- Miscellaneous notes
- Snowflake Method, created by Randy Ingermanson
- Manage your progress:
- Word count tracking throughout the app
- Save multiple snapshots of your work so you can go back to any point in your manuscript’s history
- Store multiple alternate versions of your story, and switch between them at any time
- Create one or wore working copies for any alternate, starting from any snapshot
- Plus other advanced tools coming soon:
- Timelines – track your story’s progression through time in story order, or switch perspectives to see how events played out from the point of view of any of your story elements!
- Backstory Prompts – tie story elements together in fun and sometimes unexpected ways using seeds of ideas created by some of the finest minds in the industry!
- Language Glossaries – invent and use your own language(s) in your story, with a convenient set of tools to generate and track words and definitions!
- Story Export – generate a Word, Open/Libre Office, PDF, EPUB, Kindle, or even Markdown version of your manuscript right from the app; no copy-paste-reformat required!
- And much more!
We’ll make another announcement when the app officially releases for both Android and iOS later this month, so keep your eyes peeled. We’re a bit disappointed we couldn’t release before NaNoWriMo actually started, but better late than never, right? We’ve been hard at work on all the features, even using the app ourselves internally to track our own NaNo projects. We can’t wait to share it with the world!
As a side note, while the app itself is free, and all the current features will stay that way forever, some of the upcoming features use intellectual property of other creators, so we may have to charge for access to those parts of the app. We’ll do everything we can to keep prices as low as possible for users. But we don’t want to add paid features later and surprise anyone, so we wanted to let you know they were coming right up front.
