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The Shaxpir Blog

March 10, 2016

Shaxpir 2.1.0: Version History Tracking

Writing a novel is a job of continuous tinkering and tweaking. You start with a rough draft, and then refine your prose, erasing and changing things, filling in details and fleshing out the architecture until your story clicks…

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February 25, 2016

Shaxpir 2.0.3 Released

Another bugfix release this morning!

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February 25, 2016

Shaxpir 2.0.4 Released

Another day, another bugfix…

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February 22, 2016

Shaxpir 2.0.1 and 2.0.2

Yesterday was a busy day! After launching Shaxpir 2.0.0 early Sunday morning, some of our finest beta testers found a bug…

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February 21, 2016

Announcing Shaxpir 2.0

I’m delighted to announce that the Shaxpir BETA is complete, and we’re officially launching Shaxpir 2.0 today…

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February 21, 2016

Shaxpir 2.0: HTML Export

We’ve heard it again and again. The number one most common complaint from our beta testers was the inability to get their writing out…

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February 21, 2016

Shaxpir 2.0: Unified Content Model

From the beginning, Shaxpir’s most important design goal has been building tools for the actual craft of creative writing…

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May 21, 2015

Demolicious!

Last night, I was honored to be among five other founders at Demolicious Portland, showing off Shaxpir for the first time in public…

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April 24, 2015

Shaxpir 1.0.2 Released

This is another minor release with two small enhancements…

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April 17, 2015

Shaxpir 1.0.1 Released

This is a minor release, which fixes a bug that caused the application to crash when deleting photo thumbnails from a gallery grid.