Because I'm sick of people recommending LLMs to me, can someone recommend a tool---online or not--- that can basically take my brain dumps and half baked ideas and help me assemble them into an outline? Could even have a little workshop component too. Someone said LLMs are best at this, but I know I'd be wasting my time. For one thing, LLM plots blaze through stories, and in my genre, Romance, there needs to be held tension. Push and pull. The retreat. The linger. 7 beat Romance structure, ETC. LLMs will never write the outlines I want. As for brainstorming? Answering questions back and forth like a developmental editor? LLMs can't even do that well, either.
I'm a pantser. I have all my favorite scenes written down. Character outlines. Plot beats I want to have happen, now I need a kinda brainstorming tool. Anyone have any ideas? #OpenSource #Writers #Writing #Brainstorm #Brainstorming #WebDev
Beware: I write code, not fiction.
Very hard question. I have tried may tools for note taking and brainstorming, and never found the right one for me. It's a very personal thing. Each one of us organizes his ideas in an specific way, and finding a tool that fits that way is nearly impossible (unless you make it).
I would be tempted to recommend some very configurable tool, but personally I find that tends to make me spend more time configuring than doing, because I am a perfectionist and, even worse, I tend to adapt my way of thinking to the project at hand.
There is people that tends to conceptualize things like a tree, where each idea hangs of another one. There is people does it like a cloud, where any idea can be connected to any idea, with not much structure.
There are many writer tools (free and non-free) around, I imagine you have tried many of them and know them better than me.
I found myself tending to create tree-like structures, and found that usually tree based tools tend to be too busy for me, and I tend to lose my focus with them, so I ended using the folding features of a text editor to create my notes, creating subsections using tabs, and hiding or showing things using folding, so when I think about something I can see all the relevant items at a glance with no effort. I simply hide with a click what I don't need. And making radical changes is usually as easy as cutting and pasting, and use the tab key as needed.
Probably not your cup of tea, but I don't really know how your process work.
For example, answering questions back an forth sounds like the perfect work for a chatbot; but, since you don't want LLMs, I assume I'm not getting your meaning.
