Hiveword Updates
A round of updates: notes you can attach to anything, plotlines shown in your sort order, bigger text box fonts, and a nicer unsaved-changes dialog.
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61 postsTracking Notes
How to attach notes to stories, scenes, and characters in Hiveword Plus, keep unattached notes, and find them again with tags and filters.
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Track Anything with Custom Types and Fields
How Hiveword Plus custom types and fields let you track spells, starships, or anything else, and add your own fields to scenes and characters.
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Updates: Sorting stories and naming characters
Stories can now be manually sorted on the Dashboard, and a character's reference name is no longer tied to the First Name field.
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Hiveword on the Typehammer podcast
A pointer to the Typehammer podcast episode where the hosts discuss Hiveword, starting around the 13:50 mark.
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Infinite Choices
Why starting a novel without a destination leaves you with infinite choices, and how working backward from the ending keeps you on track.
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Gender and Sexual Orientation
A quick update: gender is now a free-form field, and characters have a new field for sexual orientation.
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Organizing Chapters in Hiveword
How chapters work in Hiveword: creating and tagging them, assigning scenes, the chapter list with scene roll-ups, and how sorting chapters moves their scenes.
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Copying characters, settings, and items between stories
A step-by-step walkthrough of copying characters, settings, and items between stories, and why the copies are snapshots rather than links.
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New Hiveword Features: Track Items, Sort Stuff, and More
Track items and attach them to scenes, manually sort characters and settings, turn on automatic scene numbering, and add geographic fields to settings.
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