Quick Start: Working with the Index Card Feature
Many screenwriters work with Index Cards to help organize their story ideas and scenes while they are writing. So, Between The Lines includes a fully interactive Index Card feature to streamline that task.
- The Index Card Drawer opens to the right or left of the main window, depending on where the most screen space is located. You can open and close the Index Card Drawer by clicking on the "Toggle Drawer" button at the top right of the main word processing window.
- Whenever you create a new scene in your screenplay by clicking the INT or EXT button in the tool bar, it automatically creates a corresponding Scene Card in the Card Drawer.
- The text you write in the script for that scene does not appear in its Scene Card. But, if you enter text directly into the Scene Card, those words will appear under the corresponding Slug Line in your script for reference. These "comment" words appear in gray, and can be edited either directly in the script or in the corresponding card.
- You can also create Comment Cards that are not scenes and have no slug lines. They will appear in your script in between scenes, matching how the Comment Card is positioned in the card list in the Card Drawer. The text entered in a Comment Card will also appear in gray in the script, and can be edited in the script or in the Card itself.
- You can hide the gray comment text from appearing in your script by un-checking the "Display Notes in Script" box on any individual card. Comment Cards will still show their title in the script, but not the comment text.
- You can make all the comments and Comment Cards disappear completely from your script by closing the Card Drawer. This is useful when paginating your script, to be sure the breaks occur where you want them. The Cards and comments will reappear in the script when you open the Card Drawer again.
- Cards can be arranged by clicking and dragging. Any text or scenes associated with them will be rearranged in the script to the same order.