Jump to content
Storyist Forums

MovieYarns

Members
  • Posts

    12
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Profile Information

  • Gender
    Female
  • Location
    Western Australia
  • Interests
    Writing, crafting, gardening, exploring, people and relationships, societies, governance and religion, cultures, Motorcycles to Airplanes and Helicopters, advanced technology and science.

MovieYarns's Achievements

Rookie

Rookie (2/14)

  • Collaborator Rare
  • Conversation Starter Rare
  • First Post Rare
  • Week One Done Rare
  • One Month Later Rare

Recent Badges

0

Reputation

  1. Hi Daniel! Welcome aboard. I use Storyist for screenwriting but have had 4 way splits in Storyist. It's really flexible! You are aware of the split window function (between GOALS and INSPECTOR at the top right). Are you aware of the little "+" plus button at the top right of the editing area? It's like another TAB in your Browser. Click the "+" for another tab in Storyist; then, click FILE-NEW (Or open whatever has your project notes in it.) You can keep adding MORE TAB windows within Storyist. They are also draggable/rearrageable order. Play with it. There are little icons above each (file) window. You can toggle views on each one (narrative/outline/beats-cards/AND SPLIT "EDITOR" VERTICALLY! {The 'X' next to it CLOSES THE SPLIT.} You'll see your split windows with Up to two different views (or could be different documents as I recall). And still in Storyist, you'll have another (window) open in another TAB which can hold your 'project notes'. I personally use this function to edit versions on my document. You can also do VIEW - SPLIT-HORIZONTALLY. [HAVE YOUR CURSOR CLICKED ON THE WINDOW (to make IT the active window) which you'd like to split!] Have Fun! Brenda
  2. Hi Marguerite and ChrisW, I’d like them back too, if/when Steve can do it.
  3. Have you looked at the Support pages? https://storyist.com/ios/docs/#adding-chapters-and-sections-or-scenes
  4. Hi ChrisW I am on version 4.2.5. You're right. I can change the colors but can NOT get a background image (that could be a grid image if you like) to come up. This is the closest I could come and still couldn't get an image or grid to come up. Version 4.2.5 Storyist>Preferences>Theme button (like a painters Palette)>Colors Tab>Page Background, then, Click COLOR icon at the bottom, double click the 3 dots in the Spectrum window, select NEW FROM FILE (AND HAVE YOUR GRID.JPG ready) to select as Page Background. There is a Color square in the lower left of the color picker (even if I added a picture there... I can only get a specific color, not the picture). I have to drag and drop in some cases the color square to the color box to get it to show on-screen. Close the window. Maybe STEVE will see this and can comment.
  5. Hi Steve, Me again. 🙂 IGNORE THE FOLLOWING REQUEST (I didn't know about 'Workspaces'! ) I have imported my third draft of my screenplay (approx 128 pages). I’m in hopefully my ‘final rewrite). On my Macbook Air (and yes I am also using an iPad Air… one of the reasons for using Storyist!) On my Mac, I have Storyist open in 5 subsections (windows) within the Storyist application. Outline on the left, Text in the middle/Split with (Title and Synopsis+ Word Count+Status as I recall. LOVE THIS!), Inspector on the right (Love the Inspector!), and a Horizontal Split in the Text, with my NOTEBOOK at the bottom middle. I’d like to pin both the notebook and the Title synopsis… so I don’t have them change on me if I pull a dummy and hit the wrong thing. I would like to be able to “PIN” a window so it doesn’t change unless I “UNPIN” it. WORKSPACES DOES IT. NEVERMIND. I cannot believe how incredibly powerful Storyist is! This is an incredible help! Thanks for all the work you’ve done getting it to this level!
  6. Steve - Hi. Further comments on Feature Request: I’m playing around with Storyist. I’ve been through nearly all the screenwriting software on the market. I absolutely LOVE Storyist! But, I’ve noticed that in Novel mode… (books) versus Screenplays, that the Novel side of the house has # for Sections, which then has in the outliner, sections that collapse and roll-up. I was wondering if you could ‘code’ a similar feature to the Screenwriting side of the house… so, I can break my full script down into sections (in my case 4 acts) … … I might possibly even put plot points in for Sections. It would be incredibly handy for us and Hopefully not a major coding nightmare to execute. [I realize that that may cause issues with ‘fountain’ files, but I think Storyist only does FDX.]
  7. I'm just a Newbie user using Storyist for screenwriting, but this is how I have it working on my iPad (and how I understand it.) On the top right of the left-hand side side-bar/Outline Navigator you should see your document with an (i) next to it. Click the (i) and it switches from a list to cards. On the left-hand side side-bar (navigator), at the top right of this column are three dots. Click them to toggle the VIEW of the side-bar between "Outline" view and "CARDS". When in the Cards View, double tap a card to select it- it Pops up for editing. Tap away for it to go back into the line-up. Or hit EDIT in the 3 dots again. OR in the TEXT in the middle, add a Scene Header which will create a card. Then click it to make the card active and hit the 3 dots to select EDIT. When you click CLOSE at the TOP LEFT of the CENTER/TEXT section to exit out of your work, everything automatically saves with Storyist on the iPad.
  8. (For Screenwriters) add a "GOAL Option" to Select TIME Sprints (15, 30, 45 minutes or an Hour), please. I'd like to be able to have a butt-in-seat writing time (timer) when I start... a sprint to write for 'X' amount of time. BTW, I LOVE the Word Counts (especially in split/outline view!)... helps me identify the FAT scenes which need trimming.
  9. Nesting Folding up Scenes in Scripts [Cheat] It's my 'temporary work-around'... just sharing in case anyone can use it. On Mac Project: Screenplay (FILE) DUPLICATE the script. I did this three times for a 4 Act Structure. Renamed each one for the "ACT - X" it represented, Then deleted the scenes not in that Act. That left me with 4 fold-up-able Acts. The only thing missing is that the page count starts from 1 on each Act; I get to do addition... but it still works for me. I plan to Join them back together when finished.
  10. Please add a format-edit option "Strikeout" [font with a horizontal line through it]. I am on Storyist version 4.2.4 on Mac OS 12.0.1 on MacBook Air 2020. Thank you.
  11. Scene numbering and renumbering feature would be awesome! Agreed!
  12. Sadly... the link seems to be down. I'd love to see the templates!
×
×
  • Create New...