yWriter is a free novel writing program for authors. It allows you to break your novel into chapters and scenes within chapters. You can reorder scenes using drag and drop, and you can print out a number of reports (summary, synopsis, scene list, work schedule). Free software from the author of the Hal Spacejock series.

• License: Freeware
• Language: English
• Release: 2006-11-14
• Size: 2 Mb
• Cost: Free

Arkan is designed to convert border of a raster mask (selection of an object in scene) or any closed polyline into B-spline (piecewise cubic Bezier curve) representation spread widely in vector graphics packages. Arkan chooses the best position both for node points (junctions of adjacent Bezier polynomial pieces) and for control points, which don’t lie on the curve but only affects its shape.

• License: Freeware
• Language: English
• Release: 2005-04-06
• Size: 1 Mb
• Cost: Free

New Screenwriting Software for Step-Outlining Your Screenplay - By streamlining the creation process of each scene and the outline structure as a whole, Movie Outline gives you the space to think and view the full outline of your story in a color-coded visual manner while simultaneously working on individual scenes. The unique Reference Plugin feature gives you the added advantage of assessing your own outline structure and story pacing in comparison to successful movies in the same genre.

• License: Commercial
• Language: English
• Release: 2004-08-06
• Size: 0 B
• Cost: 69.95 $

Liquid Story Binder XE Features: Multi-Window Display, Spell Checking, Thesaurus, Reference Notes, Timelines, Story Boards, Plot Outlines, Dossiers, Audio Recorder, Image Gallery, Reader, Manuscript Formatting, Time and Word Count Tracking, Chapter and Book Backups, Paragraph and Punctuation Cleaning, Toolbars, Templates, Portable Drive Install, Universal Search, Repetition Visualizer, External Editing, Project Goals, Playlists.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2008-04-15
• Size: 2 Mb
• Cost: 45.95 $

Springboard is a fast, light, easy-to-use Windows application for easily and quickly sketching and annotating your storyboard ideas for film, video, animation, or other dynamic media. Work with story outlines, scene images, shot descriptions, and visual annotations to show camera movements, special effects, etc. Set shot durations and view animatics. Use it to plan your work on-screen, print, or export to many formats to show others.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2006-10-17
• Size: 1 Mb
• Cost: 35.00 $

Only 15% of organizer/PIM users say that the software helped them become more efficient. 95% of ActionOutline users, on the other hand, use the program daily, and two thirds estimate it saves them at least 5 hours a week. One person (Duncan MacDonnald) puts it this way: "Others could take lessons from the GUI: less is more. In my view the best and most useful of the 2 pane outliners." This tool IS NOT for everyone, but it can do miracles!

• License: Shareware
• Language: English, Spanish
• Release: 2004-10-26
• Size: 978 Kb
• Cost: 39.95 $

ActionOutline Lite helps you organize your bits of info into the intuitive outline form. The possibilities for its use are practically endless: to-do lists, recipes, project notes, personal contacts, bookmark lists, reports, term papers etc. Arrange items using keyboard or mouse, cut and paste branches, place checks or tags next to listed items, search and replace information, print data, link to web or local files and more.

• License: Freeware
• Language: English, Spanish
• Release: 2004-10-29
• Size: 974 Kb
• Cost: Free