The latest release in Mariner Software's long line of writing and creativity software. StoryMill introduces aspiring authors to multi-level writing methods of tracking characters, scenes, and locations, while professional writers will appreciate StoryMill's time-saving ability to oversee and manage the full creative process with Smart Views.

Cocoa-built, Universal, and Accessible
StoryMill has been designed and developed solely for Mac OS X. As a long-time Apple developer (17 years), our commitment to Apple technology is reflected in our feature set. StoryMill is Intel-ready, Leopard-compatible, and fully supports Apple's high standards for an elegant user interface and intuitive functionality. Developing in Cocoa framework also lets us take advantage of Apple OS X functionality and take advantage of the world's most advanced operating system. StoryMill integrates with Apple Backup, Spotlight and more.

Creativity is the key
StoryMill helps you manage the creative process like you never have before. You can track, tag and filter characters, scenes, locations, research and more with the unique dynamic outline. For fiction writers, StoryMill provides features like word frequency counting, a cliche meter, and a progress meter to help you meet your daily writing goal.

Flexibility is the key too
Although StoryMill provides a large amount of features to help you write and track the details of your story more effectively, none of them are required! StoryMill is incredibly flexible; it can simply be a no-nonsense place to write and revise using its distraction-free fullscreen and powerful annotations, or a complete database of every character, location, and scene that makes up your novel. Try that in a word processor!

See your novel displayed across time.
Visually and interactively display your story across time with StoryMill's timeline view. An industry-first feature, timeline view allows you to visually arrange the scenes in your novel in chronological order. Why just page through your novel when you can get a 30,000 foot view?

Simple meet powerful and smart.
You can filter any view in StoryMill using a comprehensive set of built-in properties or apply your own tags for maximum flexibility. Instead of deleting scenes, just tag them to save for later. Keep multiple versions of scenes or entire chapters. The possibilities are limited only by your imagination.

Here are some key features of "StoryMill":

· Track, tag and filter characters, scenes, locations, and research with StoryMill's unique dynamic outline.
· Visually and interactively display your story across time with StoryMill's timeline view.
· Annotate any text in your project.
· Revise your work with innovative tools like a word frequency tracker and cliche finder.
· Set and achieve your daily writing goals with the progress meter.
· A built-in support for tracking submissions to editors and agents.
· Manage the creative writing process with Smart Views.
· Write, distraction-free, in Full Screen Mode.
· View your novel in multiple views.
· Back up any and all activity in StoryMill
· Native Cocoa, Universal, and Leopard compatible.

Limitations:

· 30 runs trial

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Fixed a problem where doing a Project Find & Replace of a text string could cause text in non-visible views to become scrambled
· Fixed a problem where, when running in French, SmartViews would fail to properly filter items
· Arrow key selection now properly updates word & character counts
· Fixed a problem where doing several Create Scene from Selection actions in a row would prevent the new scenes from appearing properly until saving, closing and reopening the file
· Prevented multiple chapter editor windows for the same chapter from being opened
· Fixed a problem where launching the application with "Untitled document" set to open at startup would result in a blank window on 10.6
· Fixed a problem that prevented importing RTF files when running in German
· Changed the direction of the arrows in the "extend start" and "extend end" toolbar buttons