Feature Set
Beemgee has come a long way. The features so far:
General
Free –
- FREE registration: Log into your account with your e-mail address and password.
- My Stories: Unlimited number of projects.
- Tour: Turn the guide to Beemgee’s basic functionality on or off at your leisure.
- Context-Sensitive background information on aspects of storytelling | ? |: On-site explanations and advice about each specific aspect of story development.
- “More About …” Buttons: Context-specific links to in-depth articles on each specific aspect of story development.
- Retractable Tool-Bar: Keep your workspace uncluttered by closing the tool-bar.
- Autosave: Project saves automatically after every change.
- Simple-Share: Share your story with your co-author, editor, producer, etc. (Attention: Working on one project simultaneously from several devices may lead to input loss – Beemgee always saves the newest version of the project).
- Work Offline: Continue working on your project even if you lose the internet connection (free features only) – the project will sync when you are back online.
- Language Switch: Use the tool in English or German.
Premium –
- Premium Registration: See and adjust your account and billing information.
- Copy stories to create versions (drafts).
- Permissions: Set a project to private, view-only, or can edit.
- Detail Views: See detail views of character sheets, pot events, and your step outline.
- Export PDFs: Character Sheets, Plot, Step Outline, Project – with selections for narrative/chronology, all attributes or input only, etc.
- Export RTF text files to re-import in writing software for treatments or as manuscript document.
CHARACTER
DEVELOP – the character-building tool
Free –
- Unlimited number of Characters. Name field for each character per card
- 8 Character Attributes on Dramatic Function
- Attribute Overview – hide attributes in sidebar
- Progress Indicator: Per character and overall character development
- Question Picker: Dropdown for quick navigation to specific character questions
Premium –
- Over 33 additional Character Attributes featuring text fields for your input, multi-text fields or multi-selection buttons. Divided into sections:
- plot determining character attributes (i.e. dramatic function, such as WANT)
- optional plot devices (such as SECRET)
- character transformation (attributes pertaining to character NEED)
- meta information such as character relationships an audience response
- characterisation (such as dimensions, values and beliefs, appearance)
COMPARE – the overview of characters
Free –
- Drag and Drop Character Cards.
- Zoomable Workspace.
- Information Grid: A line of cells appears in the workspace below the character cards per attribute when each attribute is activated – in this way the grid view is fully customisable.
- Character Attributes: View your answers to character questions (i.e. your character attributes) in the information grid by activating each attribute in the sidebar – you see the character attributes of all characters so that you can compare and heighten the contrast per attribute.
- Edit Character Attributes: Adjust your answers to the character questions in the COMPARE view – edit each active attribute separately for all characters by clicking the pencil icon.
- Overall Progress Indicator.
- Hide Attributes: Keep your sidebar uncluttered by hiding individual character attributes (turn them off in the overview, accessed at the bottom of the sidebar).
- Retractable Sidebar: Keep your workspace uncluttered by closing the sidebar.
Premium –
- Variable grid size – choose to expand or contract the size of the text fields in the COMPARE view.
- Character Detail View: See, export and print out the overview of your answers for each character as a character sheet.
- Export Character Sheets as PDF.
PLOT
Free –
- Unlimited number of Plot Event Cards: Title field for each plot event per card.
- Unalterable Card Identification Number: A unique ID for each plot event.
- Horizontal Timeline.
- Cork board style view.
- Drag and Drop Plot Event Cards.
- Zoomable Workspace.
- Retractable Sidebar: Keep your workspace uncluttered by closing the sidebar.
- Narrative/Chronology Switch: Sort all the plot event cards into the chronological order in time as well as into the narrative order you intend to relate them – then switch between the sort orders at will.
- Edit Attributes: Create your input for plot attributes in the sidebar – edit input fields in an activated attribute by clicking the pencil icon.
- Information Grid: A line of cells appears in the workspace below the plot event cards per attribute when each attribute is activated – in this way the information you want to view is fully customisable.
- Assigning input to Plot Events: The input of an activated attribute, be it pre-set (such as written/unwritten) or your own input (such as character names), may be assigned to each plot event card individually by clicking the cell below the respective plot event card in the grid. Grey means unassigned, red means assigned.
- Attribute Characters to plot events: The characters you have created in the CHARACTER tool will be visible and their names editable here. Each character is assignable to individual plot events.
- Attribute Storylines to plot events: Assign storylines or subplots to each plot event – the pre-set terms Central and B-Plot etc. are editable so that you can name your storylines.
- Highlight: See plot event cards highlighted in your timeline according to your selection of your inputs in each attribute.
- Filter: See only the plot event cards you selected from your attribute inputs.
- Attribute Descriptions to plot events: Write full-sentence description texts for each plot event – these descriptions are presented as editable copy text in the Step Outline.
- Hide Attributes: Keep your sidebar uncluttered by hiding individual plot attributes (turn them off in the overview, accessed at the bottom of the sidebar).
Premium –
- Attribute Location: Input locations and assign a location to each event.
- Attribute Motifs: Input Motifs and assign them to individual plot events.
- Attribute Point of View: Assign from whose PoV each plot event is related by choosing one of the characters or Narrator.
- Attribute dramaturgical aspects to plot events: the pre-set terms are editable and you can add your own.
- Attribute Hero’s Journey (modern) phases to plot events: the pre-set terms are editable and you can add your own.
- Attribute Hero’s Journey (classic) phases to plot events: the pre-set terms are editable and you can add your own.
- Attribute Plot Beats to plot events: the pre-set terms are editable and you can add your own.
- Attribute Story Anatomy aspects to plot events: the pre-set terms are editable and you can add your own.
- Attribute the audience’ emotional journey phase to plot events: the pre-set terms are editable and you can add your own.
- Attribute Structural Markers: Assign sections to your narrative, name them at will, for instance Acts or Chapters.
- Attribute character attributes to plot events: Allows you to tag “dramatic function” character attributes to plot events plus story information setting and theme.
- Attribute Writing Progress to plot events: Set whether you have related this event in your manuscript yet or not.
- Attribute Essence to plot events: Note the key purpose of each plot event in the narrative.
- Attribute Cautions to plot events: Make notes to self to consult when writing.
- Choose colours for your plot event cards.
- Choose to show or hide card Id number, chronology position, and narrative position of each card.
- Plot Event Detail View: See, export and print out the overview of all your plot events as PDF.
- Export plot details as PDF or RTF text document.
STEP OUTLINE
Free –
- Text View: All texts from the Descriptions attribute in the PLOT section in narrative order in one continuous, editable copy text. Changes made here carried over to the respective fields of the plot event cards.
Premium –
- Story Information Questions: Input answers to text fields for essential aspects of your overall story, including the theme and central conflict.
- Author information providing for author name, pen name, copyright holder.
- Pitch information:
- Genre
- Audience
- Similar to …
- Period setting
- Synopsis
- Blurb
- Logline
- Detail View: See the plot event cards left of the step outline copy text, and plot attributes to the right.
- Detail View Attribute Selection: Select the plot attributes you want visible in the detail view, right-hand column.
- Logline, blurb and synopsis editable in the overview as header to the step outline.
- Detail View Story Information Selection: Select the story information answers you want visible in the detail view. See and export out the step outline with or without attributes or story information.
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