This blog is primarily for Brent Knowles’ writing software. His writing and game design blog is at www.brentknowles.com.
Thanks and sorry for any confusion!

If anyone has downloaded the latest version of YourOtherMind and has feedback please let me know. Especially looking for any bugs that may have popped up in the latest version and escaped my testing cycle but feature requests are always welcome too.
Hope everyone is having fun with it.

Yesterday the 8.3 update for the YourOtherMind writing platform went live.
The improvements are listed on the version 8.3 page. To get them you need to turn on Help|Automatic Updates and restart YourOtherMind.
I’m really liking the new features, they have helped me through the process of writing my first novel (and have evolved based on what [...]

This page will describe the planned features and improvements for version 8.4. The estimate release date for this update will be mid 2011 depending on whether there is continued interest in YourOtherMind.
Please add your requests to the comments field!
Features new for 8.4

Overview
The biggest change from 8.2 to 8.3 is the addition of the new Dashboard, informally known as the Dashboard-flex. This Dashboard combines all the features available in the old Dashboard and the Index/Table of Contents, in a new, more convenient manner.
The Dashboard-flex sits on the side of the screen (easy to move to the [...]