Thinking of buying this software

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   emmad June 30, 2009 at 2:28 pm . Permalink Reply

   Sounds great. Not being a writer though I couldn’t comment lol

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   Jane June 30, 2009 at 3:16 pm . Permalink Reply

   I LOVE Liquid Story Binder. I used to carry around tons of notebooks and pads to keep all my notes for my various WIP. Now I just input my thoughts within the book or article file, and LSB provides a multitude of ways in which to do so. (Thus allowing me to prioritize its importance).

   Pros: I can keep it on a flashdrive (which, I of course, save on various other drives in case I lose it). I love attaching pictures to dossiers (I have dossiers for worlds, characters, fictional businesses, families, you name it), and I really like being able to save a multitude of music playlists for each book. (There are tons of others, but this is just what I can think of off the top of my head).

   Cons: I wish I could find a way to copy from book to book, but no luck so far. Also, I wish they had more variation in the normal colors for backgrounds.

   I really recommend it if your thoughts tend to come out in a jumbled heap and you would like something that easily, and cost effectively provides organization.

   Jane

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   Cyntia King June 30, 2009 at 4:03 pm . Permalink Reply

   I also love this software!

   I was working on a historical and needed to keep track of of a detailed timeline. This software helped me ‘bind’ together the timeline, genealogical charts, & location layouts. Of course it also handled the standard character images/descriptions and the writing itself.

   And ya can’t beat the price.

   Bottom Line: Worked great for me.

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   Jana Oliver July 1, 2009 at 5:22 am . Permalink Reply

   Thanks for pointing this out, Ilona! And thanks to the others for their candid opinions. I downloaded the demo and plan to put it through its paces. I’m hoping it works because I do need a way to keep all the stuff straight besides the Excel spreadsheets and the various notebooks. I’ll always keep a paper backup because paranoia is an author’s constant companion, but this bit of software looks very intriguing.

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   Melissa July 1, 2009 at 6:19 am . Permalink Reply

   Oh my goodness, yes. I wish it came in Mac!

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   Carradee July 2, 2009 at 8:58 am . Permalink Reply

   I like Scrivener, myself–a Mac-only program that I only regret can’t handle tables very well. (But that’s technically a problem with the Mac OS.)

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   Sensoo July 6, 2009 at 7:24 pm . Permalink Reply

   If you want to copy book-to-book, just go in the My Liquid Story Binder folder and manually copy files over.

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