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Offline KWPech

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I am looking for a program.
« on: October 16, 2012, 03:14:12 PM »
Hey all,
I am searching for a program that would allow me to build a virtual story board.
I want to lay out a large, I don't know... say a family tree of all my characters. Each box would have just their name and when I click on them a new window would open that held all the pertinent information about that character.
Does that make sence?
I have numerous things going right now that would be tons easier if i could lay them out in such a fashion.

Anyone know of such a thing? Free or not, I don't care.

Thanks.
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Re: I am looking for a program.
« Reply #1 on: October 17, 2012, 01:18:01 AM »
I don't.  But what you could do is use Wikidpad.  It lets you do kind of what you want with enough work.

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Re: I am looking for a program.
« Reply #2 on: October 17, 2012, 01:55:40 AM »
Reportedly, Scrivener furnishes that kind of functionality: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrivener_%28software%29
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Re: I am looking for a program.
« Reply #3 on: October 17, 2012, 04:58:03 PM »
Shecky beat me to it--I was just about to mention Scrivener. Here's a direct link:
http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.php
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Re: I am looking for a program.
« Reply #4 on: October 19, 2012, 11:03:43 PM »
It would be extremly redundant at this point to mention it but:

http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.php
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Re: I am looking for a program.
« Reply #5 on: October 20, 2012, 02:42:42 AM »
And if you have a Mac, for the next 7 days, you can get Scrivener, bundled with several other programs, for $29. http://macheist.com Pretty cool deal.
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Re: I am looking for a program.
« Reply #6 on: October 24, 2012, 04:29:16 PM »
Thank you!
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Re: I am looking for a program.
« Reply #7 on: November 02, 2012, 06:13:22 PM »
PC Scrivener does not allow full free-form corkboarding, but it's still pretty damn good.
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