Celtx -- Anyone aware of this program?

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Oct 13, 2012 at 07:34 AM

Gary Carson wrote:
>I just realized that the original post is four years old. Guess the OP already made his
>decision about what to get a long time ago…

:-)

Maybe, it’s funny though how themes and threads keep coming back. You’d think that after all these years we’d have all settled on the software that best suits our needs. Yet things are in a continuous flux.

FWIW, here’s a couple of extra pieces of info:

My own (short) interest in screenplay writing software was more focused on project management. The software I found most versatile in this respect was StoryView. It hasn’t been developed for quite some time, apart from some marginal improvements, but it’s still supported and available now at a much lower price, marketed as Outline 4D http://www.screenplay.com/p-77-outline-4d.aspx As far as screenplay software goes, I think it’s the closest thing to a generic outliner, with the very useful ability to switch from a vertical to a horizontal layout. It’s quite interesting how the mind conceives these two views quite differently.

Sophocles.net is now dedicated to the original Sophocles (the ancient Greek writer) and the Sophocles software has its own Wikipedia entry, but the mystery has not been resolved. I’m sure there’s a lot of disgruntled users out there. This is THE worst way to make a piece of software redundant. I would really wonder if the developer is still alive.

A couple of comments on Storybook will go to the relevant thread.