Prexy: Story Notes

Prexy is a notes app for people who work in stories. Every note carries a slug, a beat and a status. That one decision is the whole app: the file you write in and the list of what you owe are the same object, so nothing has to be copied from your notes into a tracker, and the tracker can never quietly go stale. THE BOARD Your stories, sorted by how work actually moves: Not Started, In Progress, Completed. Filter by beat. Beats are yours to define — the list ships generic and every one of them is renameable, deletable and reorderable, so it can describe your desk instead of somebody else's. On iPad the board and the story sit side by side, and the list steps aside when you want the whole screen for writing. On the Mac, one keystroke from inside any app opens a small panel: type a few letters of a story's name and you are writing in it. WRITING A real editor, not a text box. Bold, italic,…