Not user friendly
It’s frustrating to learn. There is no link to the instruction manual from the app. There are video instructions, (one pops up on the app one time when you first sign up,) but you have to do a search to find them. Not having the instructions on the app wastes time especially when you have to do a google search to find them. A simple link to the website would be easiest.
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Brilliant
Didn’t know it existed until recently - bit of a learning curve and hopefully company will keep updating to get smoother experience. But it’s best app of it's kind and should be used more by industry - and help stage management, associates, dance captains work together
Changes
I used to love the app a lot more before the changes that took away the bottom hot bar for moving shapes flipping arrows etc having to adjust angles is annoying. I also am annoyed we can upload pdfs from the iPad. That being said it’s an app that is very helpful for stage managers it kept my blocking organized I do wish there was a way to mark where the blocking come in on what word, you can add it to the description of the chart but I wish you could have almost a footnote next to the word or phrase the notation of the chart on the side of the script goes away once you make it a pdf.
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Extremely Useful!
Just used Stage Write for calling my first show with a digital prompt book. It has been so useful in so many ways, and in new ways that I keep discovering! A few ideas that may help my, land others workflows, that I’ve noticed over this show process:
- Ability to pinch/zoom
- Ability to use/view in landscape - and pages fit to height
- With a landscape view, view 2 pages side by side (many prompt books have a clean page next to the script to write cues)
- A button to add a blank page, without needing to import one from a computer
- An eraser tool that can swipe to erase (like photoshop), or object eraser, instead of manually erasing each stroke with a “select” and “delete”
- More incorporation of the Apple Pencil - such as scribble/handwrite that turns into text
- I didn’t use charts that much, but an easier integration of not needing to back out of the script - basically view charts and script side by side. I ended up just handwriting the blocking in, instead of using the charts as intended.
Just some ease of life suggestions! Otherwise, I absolutely love this app, will suggest it to any and all!
- Ability to pinch/zoom
- Ability to use/view in landscape - and pages fit to height
- With a landscape view, view 2 pages side by side (many prompt books have a clean page next to the script to write cues)
- A button to add a blank page, without needing to import one from a computer
- An eraser tool that can swipe to erase (like photoshop), or object eraser, instead of manually erasing each stroke with a “select” and “delete”
- More incorporation of the Apple Pencil - such as scribble/handwrite that turns into text
- I didn’t use charts that much, but an easier integration of not needing to back out of the script - basically view charts and script side by side. I ended up just handwriting the blocking in, instead of using the charts as intended.
Just some ease of life suggestions! Otherwise, I absolutely love this app, will suggest it to any and all!
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I Love it
I worked with my favorite drama teacher in 2013.
