With the outliner, you can see in a single glance the overall status of your book. See what chapters are done and those in need of writing. See which character appear in which scene. Quickly rearrange things if necessary. Write notes and summary for each item as you keep the big picture in view.
If you’re making it like Scrivener, then this is missing the ability to add new columns for custom metatags. Also columns that are sortable.
The intention is to make Manuskript a highly useful open source tool for writers. Bugs and enhancement requests can be made on the issues page.
When I start a project I can’t create either charcters nor locations (windows 10) nor anything.
In addition, the structure I create (for goals) isn’t remembered.
Please tell me when you’re software really work on Windows or if I did something wrong
Btw I’m french, so it would be easier if someone in your team can reply in french (but I understand english aswell)
How are you creating the characters?
In my Windows 10 Virtual Machine with manusrkipt-0.4.0-1-win32.zip unzipped into a folder, I can run manuskript by double-clicking on manuskript.exe. To test character creation I did the following:
Select Novel template, click create, and then pick a folder and filename and click Save.
Select Character icon on left-hand-side.
Click Plus icon at the bottom of the pane titled Names.
A new entry is then displayed with New character as the name.
I cannot see in Manuskript 0.5 a similar Outliner as in the picture. How to do it? I really like how it looks 🙂
In the Editor tab, click on a folder, and then in the bottom-left you’ll see 4 buttons: one to up, and 3 to change the view from: text, index card, and outline. 🙂
Dear Manuscript-Team
You have made a great program. Congratulations! I really love how the program automatically switches to German (with great translation by the way!)
I do have however two questions:
1) Is it planned to connect the chapters and scenes to storylines. As of right now I am using icons to mark the chapters to associate them to certain storylines. It would be way cooler if there where a better way (connection and then color coding for example). I guess it is still in developement because when I try to activate the bottom pull-down for characters or storylines it crashes.
2) Will it be possible to see certain set plot progression decisions in the board with the chapters. While writing I would love to know what I chose “Yes-but” or “No-and” – that brings me to the plot developement …
2) Will it be possible to export the finished plotting (using the Snowflake-methode) as text/.doc etc. As of right now I can only export the written prose but not the developement stages.
So many questions and probably the wrong place to ask them – but novel assistant can’t be opened as of yet.
I love your program and I will donate because this is just great!
Regards,
Patrick
… three questions with the last question being 3) … should have proof read beforehand 🙂 Sorry!
Thank you for your feedback. The best place to review work-in-progress, request new features and discuss bugs is in the Manuskript Issues on Github.
A1) With recent releases Plots are already viewable in the story line under chapters and scenes. The story line feature is a work-in-progress with several issues already open such as Issue 201 – Show World items in Story view.
A2) The Plot section is also under development with recent issue requests such as Issue 244 – Focus should change when creating a new World / Plot / Character
A3) Currently export of the plot content is not supported. As a work-around if you disable the setting Save to one single file then you can view the plot content in the
plot.xmlfile under the project folder.