Everything that's shown in a box is actually two sets of data. What you can see, in the display, and a big set of text behind it.
When I'm trying to put together a multiline plot, things (ie me) get confused, and I can't remember if John has already learned about what Marsha did, etc.
This tools helps me keep track of John, Marsha and who's on first.
Maybe it will help you.
The tool looks like this when it's running:
Everything that's shown in a box is actually two sets of data. What
you can see, in the display, and a big set of text behind it.
The big set of text could be more notes on what's going on, a full chapter, or a scene from a screenplay.
You get at this stuff by double clicking the boxes.
You can dump the full contents in a .txt file or html file that can be imported into your favorite wordprocessor for the final submission.
The online Help will give you a half a chance at working with this.
This software is not released. It has escaped. Caveat User.
The current escape is 0.95.
It's working for me, and does the sorts of things I need it to do. If it doesn't work for you, or you'd like it to do something else, let me know, and I'll see what I can do.
0.95 allows you to move events from one time to another, draw connector lines between events (perhaps to track just who has the Maltese Falcon after each interaction), some more help, and color coded outlines for the event boxes.
0.75 includes more help screens, a global search or search and replace feature, the ability to make links between events outside of the linear timeline, and improved printing support (under Linux).
Not all the features are supported under Windows yet.
You can download the application by clicking here:
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