The next version of Fountain Flow for Vim will accept many additional formats. This index card layout should be useful for writers, although so far I've only worked out a fairly simple layout. Converting plain text markup to HTML, the index board can go forever, horizontally or vertically. Each new section or row is divided by a new header. This could be separate characters, or different acts or chapters.
What this doesn't yet possess is some way of coordinating the rows, or stacking cards. First, how would that more advanced layout be reflected in plain text? Then, how would it be implemented in the visual form?
Until those more advanced issues are addressed, the text markup can be very simple, although I'd say the form shown here is open to change. For instance, the equals sign on the second line is superflous, if the card content always stays on one line -- and this, to me, seems like a very good idea, from an organizational standpoint, because then it will be easier to reorder the "cards" through tools provided by an upcoming supplemental script, particularly one that lets you hit arrow buttons to smoothly move blocks of text through the document.
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