Story Tracker Lite - a submission tracking tool for writers
By Andrew Nicolle
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Description
Story Tracker makes keeping track of your submitted stories, novels, and articles easy. Never wonder again where or when you submitted a story. The information is all right there on your iPhone or iPod Touch!
** Note: This is the free Lite version of Story Tracker. The Lite version is almost identical to the full version, but only allows you to store up to 5 stories, 5 markets, and 5 submissions. It also includes database backup and export over WiFi (but not restore/import), allowing easy upgrade to the full version. The full version has no such limitations. **
Whether you're a working freelance writer, a hobbyist, or something in-between, Story Tracker is a valuable addition to your writing toolbox. Many magazines, journals, or other markets for your work don't allow simultaneous submissions. When you're juggling dozens or even hundreds of stories, it's easy to make an embarrassing mistake. Keeping track of it all can soon become a nightmare.
Here's what you can do with Story Tracker:
* Check the status of your stories, markets, and submissions at a glance.
* Use the index to jump through long lists of stories, markets, and submissions fast.
* Add or remove stories, markets and submissions with ease.
* Add details for each story, including title, word-count, genre, and notes.
* View total income earned for each story.
* 'Trunk' stories to hide them from the story list when creating submissions.
* View the submission history for each story, sorted by date.
* Add details for each market, including title, genre, editor and more.
* Use the embedded web-browser to quickly check on market websites.
* Launch email or phonecalls directly from market details.
* Log whether a particular market is open or closed to submissions.
* Closed markets are hidden from the market list when creating submissions.
* Quickly check whether you already have a submission at each market.
* View submission history for each market, sorted by date.
* Submissions are grouped by year sent.
* View response times for each submission.
* Add details for each submission, including story, market, sent/response due/response dates, withdrawn status, and notes.
* Response due dates are calculated automatically based on market response time and submission sent date, or can be overridden.
* Past due submissions are flagged with an exclamation mark on the story and submission screens.
* Past due submissions are highlighted with an orange background on the submission list, and a red number badge on the submission tab and app icon indicates the total number of past due submissions.
* Log whether a market has rejected, bought, or published a story submission.
* Store income earned for each submission.
* Statistics show totals for:
* stories, markets, and submissions.
* stories that have never been submitted, or have been abandoned (ie trunked).
* submitted stories still out to market.
* past due and withdrawn submissions.
* rejections, sales, and publications.
* income earned.
* Always remembers what screen you were looking at last.
* Saves changes on exit, or when interrupted by a phonecall.
* Database backup and export over WiFi to your computer's web browser.
Please visit http://andrewnicolle.com/storytracker for more information on Story Tracker, including contact details to ask questions, request features, or report any issues. Join the Facebook page to discuss Story Tracker with other fans.
What's New in Version 1.4
- Bugfixes.
- Past Due submissions are now highlighted with an orange background on the submission list.
- Added a red number badge to the submission tab and app icon indicating the total number of past due submissions.
Customer Reviews
A very cool app that I'd love to use regularly, but...
I really like the concept of this application, and it looks great. The data it tracks -- stories out on submission, where they on submission, and when I sent them -- is just the sort of stuff I need to keep up with. I also love the statistics page, and the days waiting for each story on the Stories page. I'd really like using this app, though I feel the price is a bit too high for what it does.
To justify the $10 price tag (which is the same price I paid for Appigo's ToDo app, a more robust app, which I currently use to track story subs), I'd like to see Story Tracker do more of the heavy lifting for me. I would buy this app in a heartbeat if it had all the markets already loaded. As it is, I've got to type in all that myself. I know that's a huge task, but maybe some sort of RSS feed between the app and the various sites' submission pages? Or just start with the top-paying spec-fic apps, and work your way down? Also, an IMPORT tool would be awesome. I don't want to have to type in all my stories. I'd love to have all my subs stored in this app, but I have over 700 from the past decade. :)
Also, I'd like the app to be a bit more user-friendly. Some of the features are hard to use. You have to type in the market first, before you can connect it to a story. You should be able to click the Submission History button on a Market record and jump to a list of markets or create a new market on the fly. It'd be nice to have a drop list of genres to choose from in the Genre field, instead of typing it each time. Also, I didn't like having to press Done to select something from a list -- just touching the item should add it to the list. Lots of little drawback like this will keep me from using this app regularly. But I really want to use it.
- Category: Productivity
- Updated Feb 03, 2010
- Current Version: 1.4
- 1.4 (iPhone OS 3.0 Tested)
- 0.3 MB
- Languages: English
- Seller: Andrew Nicolle
- © 2009-2010 Andrew Nicolle
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch. Requires iPhone OS 2.0 or later.
