Index Card for iPhone

This is a classic, on the fly, organizer of thoughts, scene building, character sketching, and dialogue. Wouldn't mind a drag and drop element to arrange on large board format. Dig this. Thanks

This app is good on its own as an index card file, but it does also sync to Scrivener which is what I need it for. You have to follow the directions and create a collection in Scrivener to sync first. Once you do it works fine.

As a screenwriter, I always use index cards after plotting my story with a beat sheet. This app is amazing because it not only makes the cards far more manageable than the real thing, but the exporting and sharing features are great, and saving paper is always a good thing. Finally, the best part of using this app is that when I'm done organizing the cards into all the scenes I need, I just export to text and import to Final Draft and the first draft is just about finished! All I have to do is add some extra dialogue and description and I'm done with the first draft! I highly reccomend this app to screenwriters because it saves time and keeps you better organized, and not just screenwriters; any writer or person who needs to take notes or organize thoughts or storylines will benefit from this awesome app! BEST APP EVER!!

Tldr: don't get this app if you need to sync work with scrivener. Instead get something like PlainText (connected to Dropbox) and true sync your project. I bought this app on iPhone and iPad to sync scrivener projects across all devices but it's very cumbersome. If working with scrivener is what you need, don't get this app! There are two three major problems: Problem 1: NO TRUE SYNC This app does NOT sync! It only does cumbersome migrations via exporting and importing new documents each time (and then erroneously calls this "sync"). The problem is that you have to deal with deleting old files and renaming them over and over again as you sync each time. It took a long time to figure out how to connect projects (the guides on sync are not very good and if you go to the developer's site for support on this, there are just maybe two dozen questions and answered - none of them on syncing). Once I got it set up I realized that there is no true sync. The way you "sync" is this: each time you want to sync from one device to another, you have to: 1. Go through a series of taps or clicks to save a new version of the file into Dropbox (your only sync solution). 2. Go to other device(s) and then create a NEW file onto your other device(s). 3. Delete the old files on your other devices. 4. When you make changes on any device, repeat the above process, always creating a new version file and having to manually delete older files. This is NOT syncing. It is no better than emailing a project from one device to another and then having to delete old projects, every single time you want to sync a change. It is an export/import MIGRATION process, not a sync process! Problem 2: NEW CARDS WON'T APPEAR ON OTHER DEVICES The other big problem is that any new file/card created in scrivener won't automatically be added to the export queue. And those that are added from iOS are added in an awkward way. What this means is that if, say, you had 50 cards on scrivener and added 15 more, you have to manually find and add each of those new 15 cards sifting through your stack of now 65 cards and place each into your "sync" collection otherwise this indexcard app will never get them during your exports to indexcard. This is maddening if you are doing any significant work. Problem 3: RE-ORDERING IS NOT PRESERVED It is all incredibly cumbersome and while it is useful for one-off migrations, it is totally impractical if you jump from your Mac to your iPhone and to your iPad frequently.

I just bought this so I might have to spend more time with it to be honest but I kind of love it already. It does what I want it to do. It gives me a title, body (synopsis) and notes. And there are lots of options to export and save with. Plus, it's fun. A big thing for me.