Below are listed various resources that might be of use to Trelby users. Note that we are not affiliated with any of the below websites/persons in any way.

Applications with Trelby support

• DubScript – An Android screenplay reader that can view multiple screenplay formats, including Trelby. Available from the market.

Story Outlining / Note taking

Trelby concentrates on doing one thing well: writing your screenplay. There are currently no plans for adding features like outlining into it given there already are many highly capable projects that already do this. All of the ones listed below are free and open source.

• Tomboy – A simple notetaking application, that allows creation of wiki like notes and “notebooks”. (Windows, Linux, MacOSX).
• KeepNote – A note organiser that includes tree view and folders.  (Windows, Linux, MacOSX)
• WikidPad – A fully featured note-taking application, with full wiki-like page linking, essentially like running your own little Wikipedia. Like KeepNote’s big brother that is a little slower, but offers more complex options. (Windows, Linux, MacOSX). Also has an Android equivalent program.
• Keynote-NF – A Windows-only note-taking application, which is a fork of the now discontinued Keynote software.

Screenwriting

• How-to guides: ScriptFrenzy maintain a comprehensive list of articles aimed at new screenwriters.
• Tips: You might like simple screenwriting tips in small bites.
• Guides/Podcasts: John August maintains a blog about screenwriting, including regular podcasts. Take a look at the library as well, which contains scripts and outline samples.
• Q&A: screenwriting.io – Q&A site for screenplays and writing.
• Movie/TV Scripts: Many scripts can be found at IMSDB, script-o-rama, and dailyscript.

Discussion Forums

• Done Deal Pro: A site frequented by many screenwriters, to hold many different kinds of discussions.
• Script review – Get feedback for your script.
• Software discussions – Discuss the state of screenwriting software.

Alternatives

There are no other free multi-platform screenwriting programs that we know of. Our competitors are all either commercial or limited in some ways:

• Final Draft. By far the most widely used screenwriter, considered the “industry standard”. If your movie goes to production, most likely you will have to use Final Draft for the revisions.Trelby can export to this format.
• Moviemagic Screenwriter. The other major commercial program. Has faded in popularity compared to Final Draft.
• Fade In. One man effort, and reading the author’s reasons for writing it trigger a flashback to the reasons behind Trelby’s creation, years ago. Time will tell if Fade In succeeds in breaking into the ranks of successful commercial screenwriting programs, or “fades out” like so many others before (Sophocles, anyone?).
• Celtx. Weird amalgam of wildly different functions, of which writing screenplays is only one. Severely restricted in many ways, but is the only other open source, multi-platform alternative.