Stuff Packs in Houses?
somnambulist:
Quote from: seelindarun on 2008 December 03, 23:36:10
<sigh> I know. I even have one of those partitions, and yet I can't bear to take my oldest and most developed 'hoods over to the other side. I think it's because I lack toolz. I'd have to leave behind all my picture-taking, editing, writing, hyperlinked family-tree-sim-bio mac toolz... </sigh>
Just what tools are you referring to?
seelindarun:
I use the usual suspects for pictures (built-in screencap, aperture, photoshop), pages and iweb to layout the story and publish (nicely integrated to require a minimum of effort), notebook for the storyboard. Notebook also holds the family trees, and it's where I do most of my character sketches in advance of the meat of the writing. I'll likely use simsheet on the windows side (thanks rufio, and PirateFaafy!), but it looks like it's basically a spreadsheet intended as a reference.
My family tree is graphical, with a small thumbnail-type photo, and the names linked to a bio page for each sim. Some bios have just a skeleton of basic facts and maybe a single portrait photo. Others have a much more extensive description of the sim, important event(s), plus additional scattered photos, if that sim figured in a story. I don't write stories about the entire 'hood, family, or even the whole life of any sim. I write much shorter stories about events that generally stand alone, when the mood or idea strikes. The only sense in which the stories are chronological is that some figures re-appear.
It's possible to export the storyboard in pdf, so at least I'll be able to remind myself what pictures need to be taken. It will be a pain not to be able to move sequences around, but better than nothing. I'll just have to live with re-entering notes, that would normally attach to a character sketch.
An essential tool I must have though, is something that will do differential backups. I'm too lazy to do a full backup every time I play; I'd much rather do a smaller, shorter(!) differential backup of just the files that were changed, maybe a complete backup once a week, or month. What's good to use in windows?
witch:
I like Syncback and have been using it for several years now. In expert mode it is quite configurable.
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