Program: Storybook (sometimes styled StorYbook or storYbook)
License: GNU General Public License -- Free, open source
Description: From the site: Storybook is a free (open source) novel-writing tool for creative writers, novelists and authors which will help you to keep an overview of multiple plot-lines while writing books, novels or other written works. Store all information about your characters and locations in one place. Then, use the included Storybook features for managing chapters, scenes, characters and locations. A simple interface is provided to enable you to assign your defined characters and locations to each scene and to keep an overview of your work with user-friendly chart tools.
Website: http://storybook.intertec.ch/joomla/
Other: Requires Java 6
As you may have read over in Off-Topic, I'm participating in National Novel Writing Month, and while Firefox Portable + Wiki on a Stick is serving me well so far (and it's kinda too late to learn a new program, even though I'm a full day and some change ahead of the game), it'd be a great motivator for those with a flash drive on the go to do their work at other computers.
I did notice that it said it requires Java; maybe it can be altered to work with the portable Java?
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take a look at it.
"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate
Awesome, thanks.
I'm installing it now. My wife wants to do NaNoWriMo as well, and I think a novelling program might help her more than just a raw text editor (or a wiki, lol).
It comes with a NSIS installer that tells you what it does when it's doing it. It notes creation of files and folders, and shortcuts in the start menu. No mention of any registry keys. I can copy it over to my flash drive and take it to work and see if it's "basically portable". Well, no I can't, not if the computer doesn't have Java.
Which I clearly don't have here. Grumble grumble. I'll have to remedy that.
I had a first look at it and I got it working with Java in CommonFiles but it still stores its settings locally.
I wrote the dev about wherther that can be changed.
"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate
Cool. I installed it locally, after installing Java, and that is one confusing app. It's real technical, has a lot of settings and places to write stuff. I never did see the part where you actually write the story (the text editor), just the character/timeline editor. If I were taking the time to write a novel correctly, I might make use of it. (Having a lot of fun doing NaNoWriMo, so I may go that way, and it'd be nice to work on any computer, so though I won't use it this month, it could prove useful in the future.)
It doesnt include a text editor.
Its just for making it easier for you to keep track of your story if it gets really long. Its more of an overview App than a real text editor.
"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate
No text editor at all? Just a manager?? Wow. I guess I understood it better than I thought.
There is a REALLY sleek noveling program for Mac OS X they love to pimp on the NaNoWriMo.org forums, and it's just beautiful. Wouldn't mind having it, but I don't have a Mac and don't have the hardware to make a Hackintosh.
;-)But I am also a writer, so I'm definitely interested in using this in a portable format. With the way I'm constantly moving around during the day, it would help tremendously.
-Whistle
Hi,
i'm using the StorYBook on my USB-Stick.
I start StoryBook with bypassing a property, where to store the informations.
java -Xmx192m -Duser.home=X:\Tools\StorYBook -jar lib/storybook.jar
Works for me.
Mike