Benefits and Features
Get Organized
Tired of having to shuffle through a stack of papers (or files) looking for that character sheet? Or worse yet, did you leave your notebook of scene summaries in your cabin on Walden pond?
With Hiveword you can finally get organized and safely keep all of your data in one place. Your summaries, scenes, character sheets, and setting information are all one click away. Save time and your sanity.
Things you can do:
- Create scene summaries
- Record character information
- Record setting information
- Plus much more to come!
Peace of Mind
Writing is a novel is a labor of love and you sacrifice greatly for it. Would the loss of your hard drive make your novel vanish in an instant? If you are not making backups of your writing please go do that now while you're thinking of it. I'll wait... ;-)
Now that you have backups (not just on your one hard drive) we can talk about what Hiveword offers:
- Automatic daily backups
- On demand backups directly to your machine
The first backup type is automatic and copies your stories to multiple locations for safekeeping.
The second way of doing backups allows you to copy your stories directly to your machine. This is in addition to the safety provided by the automatic daily backups.
A backup on your machine is no good if it's in a proprietary format that you can't read. That's why Hiveword backups are in a format that can be read into any word processor. There's no lock in -- Hiveword will not hold your stories hostage.
Because of its non-proprietary format you can see that it would be easy to get all of your information out of Hiveword if you ever become dissatified with the service.
Now that's peace of mind.
Freedom of Movement
The typical story organizer ties you down to one computer. That's where it's installed and licensed and that's that. Your data and the software reside on that one machine. But what happens when you're spending the week at Aunt Norma's house and you want to work on your story while she naps?
Because Hiveword is web-based you can work on your story from any computer -- even Aunt Norma's. Then, when you get back home you can pick up right where you left off.
Manage Stories, not Software
Because Hiveword lives on the web and runs in your browser there is no software for you to install or update. Any computer around the world running a modern browser can access Hiveword.
As a web application we can frequently update Hiveword with new features and you don't have to do anything. Suddenly, the feature is just there. Compare this to typical story organizers where you have to wait six months or more to get the next version that you then have to install.
