Manuscript Tracker for Macintosh
by Mike Blaguszewski
This is the homepage for Manuscript Tracker, a manuscript tracking program for Macintosh. Manuscript Tracker was inspired by Kevin Cummings' S.A.M.M. for Windows, and was developed to fill a need for such a program in the Mac community. The current version runs in Mac OS X and an older version is available for OS 8-9. Enjoy.
News
June 11, 2005 - Finally added icons (only took five years!)
May 23, 2005 - 2.0 released, with new features like notes fields and HTML export.
Apr. 17, 2005 - 2.0 is about to enter beta.
Nov. 19, 2004 - I've recently started working on version 2.0, which will be a complete rewrite using Cocoa. It will have support for notes, printable reports, and probably even iCal and Address Book integration. If you've got any other feature requests, let me know.
Dec. 20, 2003 - version 1.1 released
Features
- A manuscript section with fields for title, category and word count.
- An events section for each manuscript, listing the date, event type, market, and any profit earned on the event. The total profit and last event type are listed in the manuscript section.
- A publishers section with name, address, phone number, and website fields.
- A contacts section for each market with fields for name, title, phone number, and email address.
- The lists of manuscript categories and event types are user editable.
- The website and email address fields act as links. Click on them and your browser or email program will open automatically.
- Import and synchronize contacts with the Address Book.
- Exports to HTML.
Download
Feedback
Please let me know of any bugs or incompatibilities you find in this software, so that I can fix them in a future release. Other comments, suggestions, ideas for a more creative name, etc. also welcome.
Screenshot
Change Log
June 11, 2005: 2.0.1
- Application, document, and toolbar icons have been added.
- Minor interface tweaks.
May 23, 2005: 2.0
Manuscript Tracker has been completely rewritten using Cocoa. New features include:
- The GUI operates more like a database, with everything as a separate
window. You can see all your events at once, or just the events that
relate to a specific manuscript or publisher. Similarly with contacts.
- Synchronization of contacts with Apple's Address Book application.
- Save Backup command for convenient backups.
- Preliminary support for HTML export.
- A nicer, text-based file format.
- Lots of interface tweaks (editing category lists is easier, for instance).