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Tindytim
October 4th, 2009, 11:13 PM
I'm trying to visualize out a story, now I could make a large SVG document, but when I'm brainstorming and don't have a specific time unit in mind, when I want to change the order of events while still keeping their relationship with other events, or when I want to add events in between what I've already established.

I would imagine something like this.
http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/7316/77785588.png
anyone know of something like this to help me plan out my story?
ermeyers
October 4th, 2009, 11:59 PM
The closest thing I've ever seen is a task/project manager program. Also UML, which stands for Unified Modeling Language, see package umbrello . Good luck. Take open-source, and cook your own story planner.
Mehall
October 5th, 2009, 12:18 AM
Use Dia.

Or freemind, if it's available on Linux, I forget.
Mr. Picklesworth
October 5th, 2009, 12:18 AM
Maybe Labyrinth will do it for you? (It's a nice little mind mapping app).
Tindytim
October 5th, 2009, 12:44 AM
I think I'll stick to writing outlines in tables. Looks like I'd have to develop such an application myself for my uses.
23meg
October 5th, 2009, 01:53 AM
I think I'll stick to writing outlines in tables. Looks like I'd have to develop such an application myself for my uses.

You may want to look into the codebase of (and possibly contribute to) Crow (https://launchpad.net/crow), which it seems is not usable at this point.
Tindytim
October 5th, 2009, 12:09 PM
You may want to look into the codebase of (and possibly contribute to) Crow (https://launchpad.net/crow), which it seems is not usable at this point.
I cannot, for the life of me, find out what crow is specifically. If they had some concept art of a gui, and some specific functions, I might be more inclined.
koenn
October 5th, 2009, 12:12 PM
search in synaptic for 'planner' or 'opensched',
or have a look at http://www.ganttproject.biz/