Storyist is a story development tool used by novelists and screenwriters. It provides the word processing tools with creative writing application which has features like spell check, quotes processing, annotations with support for headers, footers, and style sheets. It has manuscript and screenplay templates that allows users to concentrate more on writing and less on formatting. The story development tools helps in sketching out the story with use of index cards and photographs. These sketches will then be refined into customizable plot, character, and setting sheets. Users may also choose to use a more traditional approach in working with story elements through the outliner, which will sketch out the story in an outline form. It features the project view which organizes novel manuscripts, screenplays, notes, and other project related writings with a search field lets enables users to quickly find anything within the project. The automator workflow support handles the importing and exporting tasks which includes smart quote conversion and style replacement. It also has a project trash that keeps discarded items in case the user needs it again.