Storyist 2.0 is Out!

Storyist 2.0 was released.  Hooray!

It adds loads of new features.  You can find a more complete list here.

Some of the features I’m looking forward to are:

-Full-Screen Mode—Remove the distractions and focus on your writing. The new full-screen editing mode puts the whole screen at your disposal, turning your Mac into a dedicated writing environment.
-Split Views—With Storyist 2, you can split views both horizontally and vertically. You can even nest split views.
-Multiple Windows—Have multiple monitors? Now you can open multiple project windows to take advantage of them.
-Workspace Management—Once you’ve got your workspace set up to your liking, use the new Workspaces panel to take a snapshot for easy recall. The Workspaces panel stores multiple workspace snapshots to accommodate your various writing activities.
-Easier Navigation—New navigation enhancements adopted from Mac OS X Finder let you navigate your project with familiar shortcuts.

-Comments—Annotate text with sticky-note style comments.
-Color-Coding—Color-code outline entries to get a high-level picture of your story.
-Shortcuts—New shortcuts make outlining faster and more intuitive.
-Collage View—Assemble collages of images and text to visualize the relationships between your story elements.
-Customizable Storyboard Representation—View storyboard items as index cards, images, or icons.
-Drag to Import—Importing files is now as simple as dragging them to the Project view.
-Project Trash—Storyist 2 provides a project trash that lets you keep “discarded” items around until you’re sure you don’t need them any more.

I haven’t been able to play with it yet.  I get a “15-day trail has expired” error.  I think it’s because of my 1.X license information…

So I’ll wait for my 2.0 key to arrive so I can post a more detail review about my thoughts about it.

2 Comments so far

  1. Steve Shepard on June 20th, 2009

    Hi emoKid,

    Thanks for mentioning Storyist! Hopefully, you’ve received your new license and are writing away as I type.

    -Steve

  2. emoKid on June 20th, 2009

    Yup, I just got the license. Starting to play around with it, I’ll let you know what I think ;)

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