writing projects
Freemind 0.8.0
Freemind - Mind maping app more>>
Main features:
- Keeping track of projects, including subtasks, state of subtasks and time recording
- Project workplace, including links to necessary files, executables, source of information and of course information
- Workplace for internet research using Google and other sources
- Keeping a collection of small or middle sized notes with links on some area which expands as needed. Such a collection of notes is sometimes called knowledge base.
- Essay writing and brainstorming, using colors to show which essays are open, completed, not yet started etc, using size of nodes to indicate size of essays. I dont have one map for one essay, I have one map for all essays. I move parts of some essays to other when it seems appropriate.
- Keeping a small database of something with structure that is either very dynamic or not known in advance. The main disadvantage of such approach when compared to traditional database applications are poor query possibilities, but I use it that way anyway - contacts, recipes, medical records etc. You learn about the structure from the additional data items you enter. For example, different medical records use different structure and you do not have to analyze all the possible structures before you enter the first medical record.
- Commented internet favorites or bookmarks, with colors and fonts having the meaning you want.
Enhancements:
- Fully functional following of HTML links stored in the nodes, be it www links or links to local files.
- From very early versions, Freemind supports folding which is its essential property.
- Fast one-click navigation, including folding / unfolding on one click and following links on one click at the same time (you dont have to make choice between fast following of links and fast fold/unfold). You can move the map by dragging the maps background as well as using mouse wheel.
- Undo
- Smart Dragn Drop, including the possibility to copy nodes or copy style of nodes; dragging and dropping of multiple selected nodes; dropping of texts or list of files from outside
- Smart copying and pasting into, including pasting of links from HTML or structuring the pasted content on the basis of the number of leading spaces in a line; pasting of lists of selected files
- Smart copying and pasting from, including plain text and RTF (MS Wordpad, MS Word, MS Outlook messages).
- Export of map to HTML, with folding
- Find facility, where found items are shown one by one as you do "find next", and the map is unfolded only for the current item.
- Possibility to use and edit long multiline nodes; even with newlines
- Possibility to decorate nodes with built-in icons, colors and different fonts.
- Low costs of risk of switching away to another mind mapping tool, because FreeMind stores maps in XML format. If you have a lot of maps created by FreeMind and you want to switch to another program, writing a conversion program should be easy, especially if that program features Visual Basic scripting facility. Christoph Rissner describes in his article at IICM site his implementation of data exchange between FreeMind and MindManager.
- File mode enables you to browse the files on your computer, seeing the folder structure as mind map.
Basecamp 1.1
Basecamp - Conveniently access your Basecamp projects more>>
Main features:
- View Milestones, Todos, Posts and Contacts for your active projects
- Complete and Uncomplete Milestones
- Complete and Uncomplete ToDo items.
Enhancements:
- Widget resizing
- View posts/message items
- Fixes to handle Basecamp API schema changes.
Basecamp projects Basecamp WIdget allows you to conveniently access your Basecamp projects ... conveniently access your Basecamp projects. Main features: - View Milestones, Todos, PostsLicense:Freeware
Celtx 2.5
Celtx is considered as the worlds first all-in-one media pre-production software designed for you to take your story from concept to production. more>>
Celtx 2.5 is considered as the world's first all-in-one media pre-production software designed for you to take your story from concept to production. Celtx replaces 'paper, pen & binder' pre-production with a digital approach that's more complete, simpler to work with, and easier to share.
Major Features:
- Writing Tools
- Story Development Forms - Celtx helps you develop your story with preloaded forms for key elements like locations, scenes, props, characters, and 32 other production categories.
- Scripts - Celtx includes six dedicated industry standard editors for writing:
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- Screenplay
- Stageplay - International and US standard
- AV scripts - including documentaries, music videos and advertising.
- Audio Play - including radio plays and podcasts.
- Comic Book
- Plain Text
- Text Lock - A new Text Lock feature enables a writer to lock a script from further text editing, while still allowing others with whom they share the project to continue working.
- Revision Mode - A new Revision mode provides writers with the ability to lock scenes when editing a script that is in production
- Adapt To - With a single click Adapt To converts any fully formatted script of one type into a fully formatted script of another
- TypeSet/PDF - TypeSet/PDF provides precise automatic formatting of your script to industry and international standards.
- Index Cards - Celtx includes reversible, colour coded Index Cards that are intelligently tied to your script and auto populate with the Scene Headers and first 40 words or so of the scene.
- Template Engine - If the default setting for a Celtx project doesn't fit your needs, you can create your own new, blank state Template that will only open the documents you want.
- Pre-Visualization Tools
- Storyboarding - Take your media project to the next level by adding a storyboard based on your script and adding individual or batch images in to the storyboard.
- Sketch Tool - Now you can add your own drawings to a project. The Sketch tool can be used to draw a sketch or setup which can also be added to your storyboard.
- Media Rich Breakdowns - You can add sound files, video clips, digital photos and scanned documents to your project to create a media intensive breakdown.
- Productivity Tools
- Catalogs - Catalogs provide a way for you to organize and view the many production items and research details required in the pre-production stage of any media project.
- External Documents - You can add any document from any application to your project - PDFs, budget spreadsheets, images, and scripts written in other applications - to help stay organized.
- Scheduling, Call Sheets and Shooting Reports - Celtx includes a 'Just In Time' Scheduling feature that lets you manage your projects in real time.
- Inter-Project Document Management - You can also drag and drop documents between projects.
- Toolbox - You can customize Celtx with a suite of add-on tools. Customization helps you do more,increase productivity and be more creative
- Publishing Tools
- Project Central - When your work is "in the can" you can publish it to Project Central and give the world a sneak peek at your work in progress and get peer reviews and comments.
- iPhone Viewing - 'My Celtx'View your Celtx projects from just about anywhere with a display optimized for your iPhone.
- Collaboration, Workflow Management & Storage Tools
- Celtx Studios
- Share projects quickly and easily with others through your Celtx Studio.
- Chat with other Studio members and determine at a glance who is online/offline.
- Checkout projects for one-at-a-time editing and avoid unintended overwrites and duplicated effort.
- Store every project, every version, and every file. Keep full histories of all your work.
- Quickly compare versions and determine who made the most recent revisions.
- Privately preview projects on the web for your team and producers and financiers.
- Personalize your studio with logos and backgrounds.
Enhancements:
- Revision Mode
- Text Lock
- Sketch
- Collaboration Chat (Studio Users)
- TypeSet - Spacing Options
, easy to share project file - eliminating the confusion of multiple project files, and the need ... application that delivers the most fluid writing and editing experience. You can always keepOnepoint Project 9.0
Integrates project planning, progress tracking, monitoring, and reporting into a single, easy-to-use tool more>> Integrates project planning, progress tracking, monitoring, and reporting into a single, easy-to-use tool
Onepoint Project integrates project planning, monitoring, progress tracking, controlling and reporting into a single, easy-to-use tool.
Onepoint Project represents a new class of Project Leadership Software solutions that does not require you to compromise between ease-of-use and functionality. In addition, Onepoints different editions scale with your needs and the size of your business.
Global competition, changing customer requirements and short development cycles make it increasingly harder for companies of all sizes to be permanently successful.
Especially the management of time and resource critical development and deployment projects provides ever new challenges for the people in charge. For this, outdated or not integrated project management systems are either not capable of delivering decision relevant information, or at least not fast enough.
Onepoint Project integrates project planning, project controlling, monitoring and reporting into a single, easy to use and open project leadership solution providing you with all relevant information when and where you need it.
There are two Onepoint Project "flavors": Basic (single-user desktop app) and Open (multi-user Web 2.0 app). Basic Edition is targeted at the "rookie" solo project manager and the Open Edition is 100% Web-based and targeted at startups and small project teams.
Main features:
- Reduced project risks through integrated solution and high usability
- Minimized project management effort via project templates and team orientation
- Increased project transparency through ad-hoc monitoring, traffic light functions & plan-actual comparisons
- Significantly minimized costs via reduced risks and administration, but increased transparency
Enhancements
- Together with a major user interface "facelift" we added many practical usability enhancements including more easy to read edit tool buttons, improved visualization of the project detail context (name and description) and extended navigation between project overviews and details.
- Week-based Work Slips Milestone Trends
- Based on feedback from many existing and prospective users we totally redesigned our work slips. Actual time and costs can still be entered on a daily basis, but the visualization of the work slips has been changed to a week-based view speeding up data entry and improving overall usability.
- Issue Tracking Option * Issue Tracking
- The Issue Tracking Option allows to report, track and manage project-related issues directly within Onepoint Project. Issues can be prioritized and support simple escalation scenarios. Like ad hoc tasks, issues are shown in personal task lists and support tracking of time and costs.
- Project Traffic Light Traffic Light
- All multi-project overviews now feature a simple, but powerful project traffic light. The status of the traffic light can be set by the project manager and indicates the internal overall status of the project. In addition, the project status color is visualized in the multi-project schedule.
- Custom Report Wizard Report Wizard
- The new report wizard allows manager users of Onepoint Project to create their own tabular reports simply via point & click. Such custom reports can then be saved and shared with other users or groups within the project organization. Custom reports support grouping, sorting and filtering.
- Risk Management Option * Risk Management
- The Risk Management Option provides the project manager with the ability to manage a version-controlled risk matrix for each project including risk description, probability and impact. Optionally, global risk categories can be defined in order to m
The A.I. Projects
The A.I. Projects - Some experiments implementing limited A.I. more>>
With A.I. the computer decides itself which path to take within the boundaries of the program.
Kraftwerker 1.0
Kraftwerker - dashboard widget to play Kraftwerk tracks more>> SuperNotecard uses virtual notecards to help manage writing projects. Create cards add them to decks and keep it straight with categories, references, flags and more. This approach focuses on the basic compositional parts and keeps the structure flexible so that it can be easily rearranged. SuperNotecard offers several ways to view and organize the notecards and makes it easy to find and revisit them. Even the most technology-adverse can move cards around on the screen to refine the flow. Using a simple color-coding system, SuperNotecard enables writers to link content to plots, categories, characters or references and these relationships can be reviewed from several perspectives.
System Requirements: 10.3
<<lessMoto Racer 1.0
A great dashboard widget that allows you to participate to a bike race. more>>
SuperNotecard uses virtual notecards to help manage writing projects. Create cards add them to decks and keep it straight with categories, references, flags and more. This approach focuses on the basic compositional parts and keeps the structure flexible so that it can be easily rearranged. SuperNotecard offers several ways to view and organize the notecards and makes it easy to find and revisit them. Even the most technology-adverse can move cards around on the screen to refine the flow. Using a simple color-coding system, SuperNotecard enables writers to link content to plots, categories, characters or references and these relationships can be reviewed from several perspectives.
System Requirements: 10.3
<<lessWriting Direction Menu 1.0
Hebrew, Arabic, Farsi menu bar dictionary. more>>
Jer`s Novel Writer 0.6.0.7
Jer`s Novel Writer - Creative writing software more>>
This program is all about momentum, and reducing the number of things that break the flow when I am writing. Jers Novel Writer is designed to help me keep writing when the creative juices are flowing, and then find all the things I need to go over again when I am more in a nitty-gritty mood.
Main features:
- Margin Notes like youve never seen before.
- Automatic Outline
- Full-screen mode
- Database
- Bookmarks
- Separate formatting options for print and screen
- It actually knows what a chapter is (or whatever organizational structure you want to use).
- A panel for general notes lets you keep track of story issues and ideas (and the last time you ate).
- Word count
- More accurate page count estimates
- Better performance than most word processors for really, really big documents.
Enhancements:
- better toolbar icons (thanks Kreg!)
- replace italic with underline print option
bugs closed:
- not all print settings were applied correctly on export (still does not to page breaks).
- invisible (and unimportant) exception thrown when dragging a margin note into an empty text section
- Cannot Reproduce - Changing name of text section causes crash (reported in version 533, same user reports also cannot reproduce in 600)
- page count could hang when page break came in just the wrong place
- when database is changed in the database window, the database drawer can have invalid selections, leading to trouble with the description field.
Rename xCode Project 2.1
Rename xCode Project is designed as handy tool that makes it convenient to rename Xcode projects. more>>
Rename xCode Project 2.1 is designed as handy tool that makes it convenient to rename Xcode projects.
Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4 or later
Rename Xcode Project - Utility for renaming Xcode projects. Rename Xcode Project 2.1 - Michele ... small utility that renames Xcode projects. How many times will be capitato of wanting to changeWriting Numbers Part 2 1.1
Writing Numbers Part is regarded as a simple and salutary Middle-School (grades 5 through 9) math program: given the English language version of a number (e.g. one thousand sixty-five and nine tenths) students must type in the numeral (e.g. 1065.9). more>>
Writing Numbers Part 2 1.1 is regarded as a simple and salutary Middle-School (grades 5 through 9) math program: given the English language version of a number (e.g. one thousand sixty-five and nine tenths) students must type in the numeral (e.g. 1065.9). This program is totally free for everyone!
Middle-School (grades 5 through 9) math program written to provide ...Middle-School (grades 5 through 9) math program written to provideWriting Numbers Part 2 1.0Writing Numbers Part 2 1.0 Writing Numbers Part 2 is a a free program ... Writing Numbers Part 2 1.0 - Polymath LoveXcode Project Spotlight Importer 1.0
Xcode Project Spotlight Importer is regarded as a convenient and professional Spotlight Importer tool for Xcode Projects (.xcodeproj). more>>
Xcode Project Spotlight Importer 1.0 is regarded as a convenient and professional Spotlight Importer tool for Xcode Projects (.xcodeproj).
Requirements: Xcode 2.5 or higher
Writing Direction CSM 1.1.1
Writing Direction CSM - Control Strip to change writing direction more>>
It also allows changing the system-wide Force Font setting.
Main features:
- Allows changing the writing direction either by clicking or using standard keyboard shortcuts.
- Allows changing the Force Font setting either by menu choice or using standard keyboard shortcuts.
- Keyboard shortcuts can be turned on and off at any time.
- Totally dynamic: module installation and removal does not require a restart.
- PowerPC native. Not a system extension (INIT). Does not use "trap patching" techniques.
- Full documentation in English and in Hebrew.
Enhancements:
- Fixed to make the keyboard shortcut work only when the Control key is the only modifier key being pressed.
Haaa Notepad 1.0
Free Yahoo! widget used for writing quick notes more>> Free Yahoo! widget used for writing quick notes
Haaa Notepad is a free Yahoo! widget that features a mini notepad for writing quick but important notes.
System requirements:
- Yahoo! Widget Engine
Mac Zoop 2.6.1
C++ framework for writing general Mac apps. more>>
Aimed at beginners and smaller projects, it gets you up to speed very quickly. Its very solid, stable, comprehensive, well-supported and above all, free! Comes as source code- requires CodeWarrior.
