LOVE this app. More organization though?
This is by far my favorite writing app!!! It has everything I need to make my stories organized and thought out. However, I’d love it if you could rearrange the order of your projects or characters, or even put them in different folders.
I have several of my own projects, and several I collaborate on with my friend, and I’d love to have a folder that I can put solo projects in, and one I can put our shared projects in! That’d be amazing.
Also, I’d like to organize which of my characters or places you see first when you open the app, so they show up by importance or how often I use them. Just the ability to rearrange the order they’re put in would be amazing.
Thanks so much!
I have several of my own projects, and several I collaborate on with my friend, and I’d love to have a folder that I can put solo projects in, and one I can put our shared projects in! That’d be amazing.
Also, I’d like to organize which of my characters or places you see first when you open the app, so they show up by importance or how often I use them. Just the ability to rearrange the order they’re put in would be amazing.
Thanks so much!
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Phenomenal for People Who Plan
This app is wonderful! I always have so many ideas all at once and no way to organize them. I can’t write without plotting first, and plotting leads to other ideas and I don’t know where to write them or how to keep organized, etc. This app was such a blessing. It came up one day when I was Googling good workspaces for authors. The price point is more than fair and well within my budget, the app is compatible across platforms (like from phone app to computer in the web browser,) and it is so very user friendly. I have had so much fun planning my stories without stress and getting to add photos of my characters, build the world, add species and items, and pretty much everything else that can go into a book. Anything that it doesn’t have as a pre-written prompt (which is few and far between) you can add manually. You can have a whole series in one project and label everything clearly. I have ADHD, and so I have trouble organizing my thoughts usually. This app really helped with that. I highly recommend this app to any future authors or anyone that wants a fun place to build a world of their own.
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Perfect! No notes!
I have been using Fortelling for about three weeks at this point, which is admittedly not the longest time, but in those brief three weeks, this has replaced all my other writing apps besides just straight up Google Docs.
This app is extensive, intuitive, and basically any time I think of a feature I wish this app had, I realize it does in-fact already have it. If you are a writer looking to organize a lot of information in one place without inevitably losing stuff in your heap of notes, this is a god send.
My only critique is wishing we could delete photos we’v uploaded to the app that we no longer want to use, which is honestly super minor.
And to the people who made this app and keep it working, thank you. You are very good at what you do, and I hope you know that!
This app is extensive, intuitive, and basically any time I think of a feature I wish this app had, I realize it does in-fact already have it. If you are a writer looking to organize a lot of information in one place without inevitably losing stuff in your heap of notes, this is a god send.
My only critique is wishing we could delete photos we’v uploaded to the app that we no longer want to use, which is honestly super minor.
And to the people who made this app and keep it working, thank you. You are very good at what you do, and I hope you know that!
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App feels unpleasant to use
For a story organization & writing app, the process of saving and editing feels tedious due to prompts of discard changes appearing every time you exit the page you’re writing. I thought I’d get used to the UI eventually but the reality is I frequently need to reference the information I have written in the different sections, and I don’t always remember that unlike the majority of UIs, this one does not directly prompt me to save upon exit. The save button on the top right should stay, I just think the discard changes prompt is unhelpful for an otherwise great app. Maybe the UI will feel fluid to me after another couple months, but there’s no reason that that should be the case, and I don’t think I’m alone in feeling this way.
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Great! But I forgot my password.
The app is great for planning a story you would like to create or expand upon, since it provides many prompts, fill-in-the-blanks and features to organise your story/characters (boards, notes, labels, etc.).
I’ve used it for 3 hours. I returned to the app one week after its download and realised I’ve forgotten my password. I forgot to write it down. I contacted for support one day ago and awaiting for a response since, and when you attempt to create a new password, there is no feature that says “I forgot my password”, for something like that. It’s unfortunate but it seems I have to delete the app and create a new account after screenshooting all my inputs. Unless the email I may receive one day may say that I shouldn’t. But I’m losing patience so I may defy an unspoken warning.
TL;DR: Other than the lack of “I forgot my password” feature, it’s a helpful app. :)
I’ve used it for 3 hours. I returned to the app one week after its download and realised I’ve forgotten my password. I forgot to write it down. I contacted for support one day ago and awaiting for a response since, and when you attempt to create a new password, there is no feature that says “I forgot my password”, for something like that. It’s unfortunate but it seems I have to delete the app and create a new account after screenshooting all my inputs. Unless the email I may receive one day may say that I shouldn’t. But I’m losing patience so I may defy an unspoken warning.
TL;DR: Other than the lack of “I forgot my password” feature, it’s a helpful app. :)
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Beautiful BUT
Just a little thing that would improve it would be to add a cursor when you’re typing. How am I supposed to know where I’m typing?
honestly the best
this app has helped me plot my book with ease! all settings, characters and their features can be noted down and accessed all at once, super helpful ♥️
I love this app so much
As you can tell by the title, I LOVE this app. It’s so useful and I love how the premium doesn’t limit any important features other than custom tools, I also barely get any ads so kudos for that (not sure for others tho) this app is so good since I’m hyperfixiating on like 2 shows I’ve made up in my head w/ my friend and this app is making me put in my full potential ! Love how it’s so convenient. Keep up the work creator! 🫶💗
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Amazing
Amazing
Amazing Thank You!! Plus Suggestions
I’ve been searching for an app like this for a while!!
I love the UI and everything here.
ESPECIALLY the option to disable some things like species etc in world building and stuff so they don’t clutter the screen.
But I love this! Being able to condense information into one place is so lovely. Every other time I’ve looked for an app like this I’ve been met with what might as well be Notes 2.0. Anyway, THANK YOU for this amazing app!
Some suggestions to improve it even more:
(Unsure if some of these are in the subscription ^_^)
- Custom colour palettes for the background and boxes per character.
- Separate notes in the character menus per character. (So not just notes in general linked to the character. Ones only on their section)
- Ability to custom organise character order
- Item menus within the locations
- Ability to ‘enter’ new line in timelines. (So I don’t have to copy paste from notes haha)
- Photos in timeline? Not sure if this is already a thing
- (I think this is in the subscription but…) Being able to put custom fields under their own sections instead of one big section. And being able to customise other ones. (Again pretty sure I read this is in the subscription.)
I love the UI and everything here.
ESPECIALLY the option to disable some things like species etc in world building and stuff so they don’t clutter the screen.
But I love this! Being able to condense information into one place is so lovely. Every other time I’ve looked for an app like this I’ve been met with what might as well be Notes 2.0. Anyway, THANK YOU for this amazing app!
Some suggestions to improve it even more:
(Unsure if some of these are in the subscription ^_^)
- Custom colour palettes for the background and boxes per character.
- Separate notes in the character menus per character. (So not just notes in general linked to the character. Ones only on their section)
- Ability to custom organise character order
- Item menus within the locations
- Ability to ‘enter’ new line in timelines. (So I don’t have to copy paste from notes haha)
- Photos in timeline? Not sure if this is already a thing
- (I think this is in the subscription but…) Being able to put custom fields under their own sections instead of one big section. And being able to customise other ones. (Again pretty sure I read this is in the subscription.)
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