PlottrReviews of plottr.com

Plottr is such an intuitive, easy-to-use tool. I love that I can build my own templates, and I can easily export outlines into Word.

This software is perfect for a visual person like me. I can create scenes that line up under each chapter. They're simple to move around. And I appreciate being able to make multiple timelines for different aspects of the story. Plottr is so good, I bought a lifetime license!

I can't fathom how I've gone so long in my career as a writer without Plottr. As a plotter with ADHD, the organization and features have literally been life changing. Zero regrets about purchasing my lifetime license, don't know what I'd do without Plottr!

The learning curve to use it is average, but once you take the time to learn how it works, the reward is great. I use it to organize my video scripts using the 3 Act 9 scene cards. It is such a neat visual in managing the storyline. The templates it comes with are excellent starters.

Plottr has so many tools that offer so many ways to go about discovering who your characters are and deciding what challenges to put them through, even an intuitive (no plot outline) writer like myself can discover amazing value here. I hit a wall in the novel project I’m working on. Laying out the decisions I’d made so far along the ever-so-fluid Plottr timeline made it easy to see where I could tweak my story’s direction, add in or move subplots, make more notes about my characters that are right there at a mouse click if I need to refresh my memory, and so many other ways to structure and refine story, I feel I’m somehow…well, cheating. No more frustration and long breaks from tackling the beast. But…Shouldn’t I be suffering peptic dis-ease and tearing out hanks of what hair I have left as part of the obligatory suffering we scribes are heir to? Apparently Plottr thinks not. Writing can be…(heresy here)…fun! Wot?! Oh PlottrFolk, you cheeky monkeys.

Of all the writer's software out there, Plottr has been the star for me. I could use it immediately, without weeks of tutorials. It is intuitive, well-organized, and saved me from using a wall of 3X5 index cards to plot out my novels.

I write both for academia and two different genres of fiction. Plottr works for everything I do. However, it must be said that this program has a learning curve. I'm still learning and I was an early adopter. That said, the company puts out many videos to show you how to make it sing YOUR WAY (and that's important since none of us are precisely alike). They also have authors of various genres doing tutorials on how they use it, which gave me many new ideas. If you think this is an "install and use" thing, well . . . it can be in some ways, but you'll never get the full power of this without the learning curve. Finally, it's always expanding what it can do, and it always comes with a video tutorial. Sometimes, these changes are user suggestions, which is also nice. All in all, it's my favorite planning/plotting tool. Whether it's a series or an academic paper, Plottr can handle it.

The ability to customize and organize multiple story arcs is very useful to me since I write Epic fantasy. With multiple protagonists.