Slugline at Mac App Store analyse

The 1.2.2 update came for me upside-down The accents that were fine until then, stoped working. When I type an accent and then a letter, instead of having “é”, “à”, “ô”, what I get is: “´e”, “`a”, “ˆo”. This is only happening in Slugline. All the others applications are working fine.

I never leave reviews in the Mac App store for a reason: it takes time. Aside from that, I’m not one to get excited about a program I use. In this case, I’ll make an exception. By far, this program has blown me away at it’s simplicity, minimalistic design and ease of use. It is the definition of user intuitive. I love writing on it, which is helpful since I am writing a television series pilot using it. If you aren’t sure about paying for it, as I wasn’t at first, they have a free trial version on their website. Download it. Write with it. I guarantee you’ll consider getting it. I can’t imagine writing a script without it now. You may be forced to use FINAL DRAFT at the end of your scripts journey to television or film, but for the rest of that journey leading there, Slugline is my program of choice, bar none..

I love this app. I started trying my hand at screenplays recently, and I decided to give Slugline a shot as I found a lot of recommendations from those that like writing in Ulysses for novels and daily writing. I love Ulysses and hoped for something comparable. Much like Ulysses, it has a minimal, yet beautiful look and feel. It’s a joy to write in. I do hope for a dark theme and a revision mode, but even without those I whole-heartedly recommend this app.

I totally love it. Tech support is very responsive with answers and fixes. But after using it for over two years now, I cannot figure out why there is an EDIT mode and a PREVIEW mode. MACs philosophy has always been WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get), but SLUGLINE requires you to change to PREVIEW mode to get to WYSIWYG and you CANNOT EDIT in preview mode. It seems to be counterproductive and unnecessary. Why not simply have one WYSIWYG mode that allows you to EDIT and ditch the visible before and after command codes: "*" and "**" and "***" and "/*" and "*/" etc., in EDIT mode. We dont need to see them, they are distracting, and they throw off line counts when you are especially trying to keep dialog—and action—short and punchy. Seeing these codes in your script is like trying to manually code in HTML like the "good" old days. This is one point on which the creators of Slugline seem to disagree. One other annoyance: You can type an entire dialog and decide to UNDO. Sluglines UNDO function works ONE CHARACTER AT A TIME, so it can take forever to undo several words or lines and you have to be super careful not to go too far. I understand they are fixing this, but there hasnt been a new release in months. (Be careful about installing new releases. SAVE the old version. One time a new release had a serious problem... which they fixed fairly quickly.) (I also cannot figure out why the app store has such tiny type and does not permit enlargement with command-plus.)

Absolutely awesome app. The best thing about it is how little you have to do to format your script. You just write and slugline does the rest!

I like Slugline a lot, and find that Fountain fits really well into my workflow. For an initial draft of a screenplay, or for smaller pieces, it’s clean and easy to use. It’s no Final Draft, but if you don’t need all those features, this will do just fine. The lack of any global app preferences is kind of irritating, though. Scene headings options, character continued lines and choice of font all have to be set manually for EVERY document separately — instead of there being global Preferences in the app. (There is a Preference panel, but the developer uses it as a place to be cute and say “I prefer writing” with only a button that says “I agree”.) Not particularly helpful.

Pas de fonctions inutiles. Slugline c’est pour écrire des scénarios et c’est tout. Pour moi c’est le meilleur !