Story Tracker
Track story submissions on your iPhone or iPod touch!
Story Tracker makes keeping track of your submitted stories, novels, and articles easy. Never wonder again where or when you submitted a story. The information is all right there on your iPhone or iPod touch!
Whether you’re a working freelance writer, a hobbyist, or something in-between, Story Tracker is a valuable addition to your writing toolbox. Many magazines, journals, or other markets for your work don’t allow simultaneous submissions. When you’re juggling dozens or even hundreds of stories, it’s easy to make an embarrassing mistake. Keeping track of it all can soon become a nightmare.
Can’t remember the maximum word-counts for a particular market, or whether they’re open or closed to submissions this week? Drop by their website from within Story Tracker to check submission guidelines. If it seems like an eternity since you’ve heard back about that novella you sent out, you may be right. Use Story Tracker to check how long submissions have been out to market, and send a quick query email off to the editor.
Story Tracker now includes database backup/restore and export/import over WiFi to your computer’s web browser. Keep a copy of your database for safekeeping, or import market listings from other Story Tracker users. Want to share market or story lists with friends? Just export the data to your Mac or PC, and the database file can be sent to other Story Tracker users for import.
Here’s what you can do with Story Tracker:
- Check the status of your stories, markets, and submissions at a glance.
- Use the index to jump through long lists of stories and markets fast.
- Add or remove stories, markets and submissions with ease.
- Add details for each story, including title, word-count, genre, and notes.
- View total income earned for each story.
- ‘Trunk’ stories to hide them from the story list when creating submissions.
- View the submission history for each story, sorted by date.
- Add details for each market, including title, genre, editor and more.
- Use the embedded web-browser to quickly check on market websites.
- Launch email or phonecalls directly from market details.
- Log whether a particular market is open or closed to submissions.
- Closed markets are hidden from the market list when creating submissions.
- Quickly check whether you already have a submission at each market.
- View submission history for each market, sorted by date.
- Submissions are grouped by year sent.
- View response times for each submission.
- Add details for each submission, including story, market, and sent/response due/response dates, withdrawn status and notes.
- Response due dates are calculated automatically based on market response time and submission sent date, or can be overridden.
- Past due submissions are flagged with an exclamation mark on the story and submission screens.
- Past due submissions are highlighted with an orange background on the submission list, and a red number badge on the submission tab and app icon indicates the total number of past due submissions.
- Log whether a market has rejected, bought, or published a story submission.
- Store income earned for each submission.
- Statistics show totals for:
- stories, markets, and submissions.
- stories that have never been submitted, or have been abandoned (ie trunked).
- submitted stories still out to market.
- past due and withdrawn submissions.
- rejections, sales, and publications.
- income earned.
- Always remembers what screen you were looking at last.
- Saves changes on exit, or when interrupted by a phonecall.
- Database backup, restore, import and export over WiFi to your computer’s web browser.
What’s new in the version 1.4 update:
- Bugfixes.
- Past Due submissions are now highlighted with an orange background on the submission list.
- Added a red number badge to the submission tab and app icon indicating the total number of past due submissions.
Version 1.3:
- Bugfixes.
- Database backup, restore, import and export over WiFi to your computer’s web browser.
- Added a Facebook button on the information screen for Story Tracker news and to connect with other writers.
Version 1.2:
- Bugfixes.
- Submissions are now grouped by year sent.
- Jump through the complete submission list with the new index dots on the right-hand side of the screen.
Version 1.1:
- Bugfixes.
- Pick genres from a list instead of typing them in every time.
- Record market word limits, pay-rates, and response times.
- Record submission response due dates and withdrawn status.
- Response due dates are calculated automatically based on market response time and submission sent date, or can be overridden.
- Store notes for markets and submissions.
- Track statistics for past due and withdrawn submissions.
- Past due submissions are flagged with an exclamation mark on the story and submission screens.
- More flexible app navigation: add stories, markets and submissions on the fly (limited in the Lite version).
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