0.0.42 is up, but it’s mostly some minor changes. A couple of bug fixes for some annoying things. Updates probably will start to slow down here soon, with NaNoWriMo starting in three days and the major features completed, if not yet polished. There are still minor things I’m going to add, and I’m going to leave the early adopter pricing up until at least the end of NaNo, even if I hit 1.0 before then. I don’t think StoryBox will be 1.0 before then, but stranger things have happened. In any case, I’m committing to $25 for another month, at least.

Here are some things that I’m going to be working on that I expect to be in v1.0.

• Bullets
• Line spacing
• Export to manuscript format
• Export of specific document trees (so you can export your entire project, notes included)

I cannot remember where I said it, but I said I’d have options for indenting in by the end of this week. Is today good enough? 🙂 Also added, some alignment options (left, center, right), and I migrated alot of the options that were on the document context menu into the one that you get in full screen mode so you don’t have to get out of fullscreen to add a tag or add notes to a character.

I was feeling frivolous last night and today, so I added some new button styles to StoryBox, as well as cleaned up the themes (especially the Black and Desert themes) a bit. Each theme has a default icon set, plus, you can go into the preferences and choose a different icon set if you don’t like the default ones. I’m partial to Plain buttons on the Black theme, myself, and I’m tempted to change that to the default for the Black theme. I’m interested in hearing which combinations people like the most, and if there are any overwhelming favorites, I could be convinced to change the defaults.

I’m going to try to give you some options for modifying the indentation by the end of the week (meaning before NaNo starts) so that you’re not stuck being uncreative with your formatting. If there’s any other feature that you absolutely need before NaNo starts, let me know and I’ll see if I can squeeze it in.

I’ve basically been updating Storybox every couple of days, and sometimes more often, and I wonder what you think about that. How often is too often? When do you get tired of installing updates?

Of course, I don’t actually force you to install them, and you can turn off the update check in the preferences menu if you want.

Personally, I’m a big fan of frequent updates. It often feels like Christmas when my favorite software receives an update, especially when it fixes a problem I’ve been happening.

Uploaded version 0.0.38 of StoryBox today. This adds some more options for default document views, and also enables the remembering the last view of a document. Version 0.0.37 added left, right, and view buttons to the index cards, as well as some performance improvements.

I’m preparing things to be able to put the settings data wherever you want so that you could, potentially, install SB on a thumb drive or put the settings and your documents in DropBox and have the same settings on every computer where you use StoryBox.

I’m getting some good feedback from people that are using StoryBox, and I’d just like to thank everyone that’s reported a problem. It’s really helpful in finding the things I missed or forgot about or plain just didn’t think about. Keep it up.