well, that's getting uninstalled....

[rivendellrose]

So, just tried Liquid Story Binder, primarily for their MindMap function, which looked pretty cool and very useful to a distracted person like me who has a hard time using standard outlines because I'm usually not quite that organized. It sounded like a great idea!

So I download the trial, open the program, mess around with the color settings for a minute (eh, nothing I particularly love, but there were a few neat looks), and opened up both a new Mindmap and the example Mindmap with "how to use them" info. Read the how-to stuff, and started in.

First thought: Why is there not an indication when I click to edit an entry? Why do I not get a cursor or something? That's weird... but not a terrible problem once I figured it out. Whatever.

Second thought: Why... is the program forcing my capitalization? Why, whether I want it to or not, is it Forcing Me to Write Like This? And Why is it not Capitalizing Prounouns like "she?" That's... Strange.

Oh, but I think, there must be a way to turn that off. After all, I hated the auto-correct on Open Office when I first got it, and once I turned off that option everything was fine! So I go up, find the options, and set it to lowercase. That way, I think, I can choose my own capitalization. Except... not? Apparently, that turns what I've already written over to all lower-case, and... makes no change whatsoever in what I type after, continuing to force me to type in the Annoying Broken Title Caps of Doom.

I realize I'm a teensy bit compulsive about capitalization and stuff like that, but... I cannot be having with this shit. I showed The Boy and he agreed that it was a) stupid, and b) a sign of bad programming.

I have uninstalled Liquid Story Binder.

Well. That lasted about a half hour, grand total.

I'm going back to writing in RoughDraft, thanks. :P

Comments

[aris-tgd.livejournal.com]

Did you try turning off Auto Capitalize Titles and Captions in 'Preferences'?

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Is that where they finally hid it? I thought I'd looked everywhere through Preferences, but I must've gotten too frustrated and missed it. Maybe I'll give it another try in a bit - for the moment, I'm settling with RoughDraft again (still). It's plain, but it works.