The PowerView tab color-codes each step within the context of the three-act structure, the Scene Cards uses the common writing technique of putting steps (or scenes) on index cards so one can re-arrange them if necessary, and the Story Tasks tab keeps a checklist of things one might need to add, check, or change.
One of the more unique options is the FeelFactor tab. Also organized by step, one can select from a number of emotional responses, such as action, fantasy, or tearjerker, and move the slider to assign a number value based on the content of the script. Each of these numbers is then plotted on a color-coded graph. While it might be helpful to some to visualize a script in such an unusual manner, writers can often be our own best and worse critics, so this tab might be better reserved for an objective reader instead.
Also, the reference and library tabs were a bit disappointing. I hoped it would be places to stick research, notes, and pictures – which I often find myself having to paste into a separate Word document – but they only contained outlines from popular movies such as Ghost, Spiderman, and Terminator. While this could help a beginning writer get the hang of structuring a script, a more advanced user will likely pass over these tabs. A better method might be to take a couple of those movies and populate every tab with the relevant information, making them accessible in one of the menus, so that the user can have it as a reference guide for the entire script, rather than just one aspect of it. Although, Movie Outline does allow one to export one's own script into the reference tab, so one could compare to a newer or edited copy. Some writers may really like this feature, but it'd be nice to have the option to customize the layout and take out tabs that one doesn't use.
