Liquid Story Binder XE

Liquid Story Binder XE is an advanced software utility whose purpose is to help writers edit text and organize, outline and revise their ideas with the aid of tracking tools.

With support for spell checker, image gallery and reference notes up to timelines, storyboards and plot outlines, the application lets you arrange complex scenes and get an overview of the plot.

Liquid Story Binder XE integrates lots of customization options so be prepared to dedicate some of your time to learn how to work with them.

The writing environment is quite flexible in the sense that you are allowed to arrange and save window positions. You can design a custom-made workspace for each chapter where you can add images and checklists, as well as set up color schemes for your favorite file types.

Liquid Story Binder XE comes with support for planners which represent a smart way for organizing information. A planner includes a table of contents, subtitles, descriptions, color indexing, and status labels. It can be used for sorting and opening chapters.

You can make use of builders for writing chapter-based scenes and dividing content into multiple pieces. This way, you can define, sort, and combine small portions of text.

What’s more, the app helps you combine multiple chapters into a single manuscript, gain access to all the files included in a project using the listing tree, write text with the aid of a rich-text editor, take notes, define brainstorm sessions, and generate mindmaps for linking ideas together using lines and text.

You are given the freedom to access checklists, make comparisons, plot multiple characters in the story using colored timelines and cards, place images and text on storyboard to get a visual reference of the story, and keep dossiers with descriptions about people, places and things.

Aside from text editing and management options, you can embed photos and songs (e.g. MP3, WMA, OGG), create image galleries and preview the files with the aid of thumbnails, record sound using a microphone, define shortcuts to external programs and files, and back up the information.

The feature pack is comprehensive and you get to play with an additional set of utilities that help you set up alarms, automatically save changes, automatically complete words, get chapter statistics, view the total number of numbers and letters, create random character dossiers, and clean word spacing.

You may export data to text files or BMP images, edit text in full screen, password-protect binders, view synonyms via Thesaurus, activate the ‘Typewriter’ function for writing text continuously without being able to go back and make changes, and check out word usage.

All things considered, Liquid Story Binder XE packs a thorough set of features for helping you define and write text. However, you need extra time to get used to its multitude of options.