Creative writing & ideas
This is the site for Story Lite, our original 2010 app that is still popular.
It is a simpler version of our main apps Notes Story Board and Story Turbo.
Get Story Lite here (home page) >
Notes Story Board writing app
ALL FREE!
We also have a new site at Botz Robots for games, apps etc >
April 1 2014: The Notes With Links Office Store page is down for maintenance as the price is changing, this is not as simple as it sounds (this is not a joke btw!). I will email members when the new version is live.
Office app Notes With Links for Word (and Excel, PowerPoint)
Active reference links
It has active reference links from places in your documents to the particular note.
It works with Word, Excel and (some limits) PowerPoint as a side panel app, and is saved with the document.
Office app Notes With Links for Cell in Excel
Notes panels for multi-user editing, reviewing, collaboration, sharing
Notes panels can be used by another person to add comments or marking to a document or spreadsheet
Notes panels are contained within Office and do not need any special shared accounts, just the app
“Every writer should know about Notes Story Board.”
“By far, the best piece of writing software.”
August 2013
I recently ran a survey (results later this week) and got some very positive feedback.
The quotes are at:
Notes Story Board (& Story Turbo) testimonials and feedback >
If you are still using Story Lite, why not try Notes Story Board (which has images and more features) since it’s free…
I have discontinued Story Lite v2.2 as most people just went for the Story Turbo upgrade (new window) which is same but has Images too.
So the old Story Lite v1.1 freeware is back, this has fewer features but is very usable as a notes writing organizer.
Nag nag nag: You just have to sign up to download the freeware Story Lite. It still has the old nag screen asking for your email for updates etc, just do that with the same email, will get merged. It is too expensive to recode just for that.
Sale is over so price is going up to $3.95 or £2.50 – this is less than the start price last year. App prices are lower, so go with the flow.
Our other app Story Turbo is also going up to a similar amount. Turbo has image import as well.
Don’t forget to download the extras from the download page if you have not yet done so.
New Story Lite v2.2 is out next week, the installer is made so I will put it online soon. I listed the benefits in the last blog, well OK, I listed the features.
NEWS: Live! To buy a Story Lite v2.2 license at sale price of 95c, go here >
Benefits are:
Easy to work with many boxes of notes and ideas because you can select and move around groups now, not just one box at a time.
This means you can make say a title box and a main text box, and drag them about, also clone them for repeats.
Neater line up of rows and columns, this will help you think since the brain works fastest with simple layouts. The snap to grid tool means you can set say 20 pixels as your grid.
Transparent text boxes and Z level, so you can make layered texts.
Instant shortcuts to zoom to boxes or view. Some of these are in the current version but there are more for power users.
Better paging system on the arrow keys, makes it easier to ‘paginate’ your layouts for presentations or slide shows.
Better web export, on a Publish button, and a link to ‘how to’ guides to get your work into Blogs, Content Management Systems (CMS) and Social Media, and anywhere else. There will be more on this topic later.
And in v2.3 (along later) the process will be automated.
You can lay text directly onto anything else, and control the layers – using the transparent text box feature, and the Z levels control. I will make an example of using this next week.
So, not long to wait.
Any ideas for new features just drop a line via Contact page.
Story Lite v 2.2 is due out. We will go to v2.2 not 2.0 as we are adding more features.
This is in addition to all the other new features we already mentioned, group boxes, snap to grid, 400% zoom, recent file list, many more functions and shortcuts.
This means you can do quite artistic text page layouts if you want.
Later we are adding many other exports to social media sites and blogs. This will be along in the next update due in a month.
Comments and feedback for new features welcome, as they might get in quite soon!
Story Software text styles
There is a new file for text styles, you can use this as a basic method to copy/paste styles into new boxes (or clone them). You can edit these to suit, they use a serif font (Times New Roman) and a sans serif font (Arial) and a number of styles like Heading, Subheading etc.
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I need your feedback – you are not alone!
I sent out a mail last week with the heading “You are not alone… in using Story Software”.
I am making a all new version 3 of Story Turbo and Story Lite, so I need some feedback.
The survey is here:
Story Software Survey – please spend a few minutes to help get a better app >
Version 3 will probably have a new name and have a mix of desktop and online activities.
If you have done it already and have further comments please use our contact form
I will be posting the results of the survey by next week.
Thanks
Geoff Davis