Hiveword

You can now search everything in Hiveword Plus! What do I mean by everything? Well, I’ll say it again: Everything. 😉 You can quickly search characters, scenes, settings, items, story summaries, plotlines, chapters, notes, journal entries, custom types/fields, and tags. In other words, everything. There’s now a little search box at the top of every page: Upon searching you’ll see the results page: The search reaches across everything you have in Hiveword. So, you’ll see hits for journal entries and other things that aren’t attached to stories. You’ll also see hits across stories but the sample screenshot only shows one story. While search seems like a simple thing these days, I am… Read More »Search Everything!

As a developer, it’s fun to see how others use your software in unexpected ways. For example, my previous post was about how power users do cool but surprising things.   Jeremy Menefee is another power user who says that Hiveword produces “world-class content for a book query.”   I thought, “It does?” 😉   Turns out that Jeremy convinced me. What I thought of as a simple backup mechanism to prevent lock-in actually serves a secondary purpose.   Who knew?

It’s here! You can now attach pictures to your characters, settings, and just about anything else in Hiveword. In my last post, I provided a preview of the features around image uploading. Everything there still applies but I’ve tweaked a few things to make the experience smoother. Those sorts of changes don’t convey very well in screenshots, though. The screenshot above is new, however, and shows how you can easily filter images by story, type, and tag. This filtering is consistent with scene and note filtering. I won’t waste your time with a rehash of the last post but please check that out and see what you can do with… Read More »Image Uploads in Hiveword Plus

One of the most popular feature requests for Hiveword is uploading images. I’m pleased to say that it will be released soon! In the meantime, I thought I’d give you a taste of what you can expect. This is early access, of course, so things may change a little. (You can click on the images for a bigger view.) Let’s get started with the Image Browser: The image browser screen shows thumbnails of all the images you’ve uploaded. The idea here is that you can quickly browse through the images to find what you want. In all of the screenshots, clicking on the image itself will take you to the image’s… Read More »Image Upload Preview

Just a quick update about some new character types. Previously, the character types were Protagonist Antagonist Neutral Those still exist but there are now two more: False Protagonist False Antagonist These are useful when you have a character that isn’t what they seem at first. This post would be prettier with a screenshot, don’t you think? Hiveword user Josie F. requested this change. Now it’s your turn. What’s your great idea for making Hiveword better?

Hiveword user Kevin H. recently suggested several features. The first one to be implemented is a way to assign a chapter to a scene within the scene page itself. Previously, you had to do that from the Scenes by Chapter page. (You still can, of course.) Have a look at the screenshot below: The new piece is the Chapter dropdown. All of your chapters are in the dropdown in the correct order. You can assign the scene to a chapter or remove the chapter assignment altogether. The dropdown will only appear if you have chapters defined. If you are like me and don’t use chapters then it won’t be in… Read More »Assign chapter from scene page

Hiveword user Matt N. requested a cool feature: show scene summaries in the scenes list. What a great idea! Here’s a screenshot: As you can see, summaries are included with the normal scene information. By default, the summaries are not displayed. To show them, simply click the Show Summaries checkbox. To save vertical scrolling, only 600 characters of a summary are displayed. The idea is to give you a taste of what the scene is about. To see the whole summary simply click on the scene link to go to the scene detail page. Filters work like they always have. In the screenshot there is an active filter so non-matching scenes are… Read More »Scene List Summaries

You can now track notes in Hiveword Plus*. Notes can be attached to most things: stories, scenes, characters, etc. You can also have unattached notes that are not part of any story. Here’s an example of notes for a scene: The notes popup is embedded in the scene page. The normal scene textboxes and such are right below the notes so you can refer to your notes if needed or close the notes popup to get it out of your way. The notes textbox is resizable and the entire notes popup is, too, so you can see exactly what you want. There is no limit to the number of notes you can… Read More »Tracking Notes