StorYBook 2.1.12

Are you a novelist or an author? StorYBook is a free and open source scene-based software for creative writers that helps to keep the overview over characters, locations and strands while writing a book, a novel or a story. StorYBook assists you in structuring your book.

Main features:
- StorYBook has three views: the Chronological View shows the scenes sorted by date, the Book View shows all chapters and their assigned scenes sorted by chapter and scene numbers, as you would read it in the final book, the Manage Chapters and Scenes view shows all chapters and their assigned scenes
- StorYBook helps to keep the overview, especially for complex stories with two or more strands. You imagine of StorYBook as some kind of a dynamic mind map.
- Strands and strand links: Each chapter belongs to a primary strand. Optionally other related, secondary strands can be linked to a chapter.
- Person management: Add, edit or remove persons (characters) and assign them to the related chapters.
- Location management: Add, edit or remove locations and assign them to the related chapters.
- Parts: Large projects can be split into well arranged parts.
- Informations: Chapter related informations of the currently selected part are shown as well as warnings for missing chapters or chapters existing twice. A overview list shows all present strands, persons and locations.
- Adjustable view: The chronological view can be resized any time to fit to screen, or to get a better overview if many strands are defined. Even more working space is available if you hide the information panel with a simple click on the tool bar.
- Instant save: Because StorYBook uses an embedded database to store data (and not a file) each input entered is saved in an instant. Even if the program crashes, you wont loose any data.
- Completely stand-alone: Write your book or script with your favorite software. The only link needed is the chapter number.

System requirements:
- Java 6

Enhancements
- A "quick navigation" has been implemented. Right click on a scene number and select "show in chronological view" to switch to the desired view and show the scene there. Of course this works for any view, not just for the chronological view. It is also possible to right click on a scene in the tree and select the view to shown the scene in there.
- Most dialogs are non-modal (= dont prevent the workflow on the application) and re-sizable now.
- After editing a scene, the refreshing is more accurate now. The view is always up-to-date even if the date was changed.
- When editing a scene, the date chooser has 2 new buttons now to quickly add or subtract 1 day.
- The dictionaries has been updated.
- The color chooser has some nice predefined colors now.
- Support for dark colors has been added. E.g. black can be used for a strand now. The label text will be shown in white in this case.
- At the bottom in the chronological view there is an empty row. This row has a date now (the next "empty" day, or more precisely the next day which is empty for the current part).
- Last but not least: Were looking for a new logo. More information on the community page.