{"id":775,"date":"2011-02-09T17:28:59","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T01:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/v2.handheldhollywood.com\/directors-chair\/index-card-for-ipad-gets-reviewed\/"},"modified":"2015-11-14T14:38:08","modified_gmt":"2015-11-14T22:38:08","slug":"index-card-for-ipad-gets-reviewed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/handheldhollywood.com\/index-card-for-ipad-gets-reviewed\/","title":{"rendered":"Index Card for iPad gets reviewed"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/span>Cult of Mac<\/a> just published a very nice review<\/a> of Index Card<\/a>, an iPad app designed to virtualize the index card method of script development.<\/p>\n Very often, writers will put every scene and idea on a separate note card, and then shuffle the cards around a cork board in order to find the most effective order. \u00a0Naturally, there’s a lot more too it than that, but you get the idea. \u00a0This technique has been around a long time, and is still widely used today. \u00a0For those that like modern parlance, consider it\u00a0mind-mapping<\/a><\/em> for screenwriters.<\/p>\n There’s a LOT of mind-mapping apps in the App Store, but so far, only Index Card<\/a> offers the ability to export your organized cards as an RTF for importing into Final Draft<\/a> (the de facto standard for desktop screenwriting software). This feature alone puts it WAY ahead of the pack.
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