<commit_before>---
title: Fountain Loader for Google Drive
date: 2014-06-27 20:48 PDT
tags: "tech, projects, writing"
---

[Fountain Loader](http://fountainloader.com "Fountain Loader") is an online previewer for [Fountain screenplay documents][9636-001]. It works with Google Drive™, making it easier to write screenplays in Google Docs.

{::nomarkdown}
<div class="video-container">
    <video autoplay="" loop="" poster="<%= image_path 'fountain-loader/fountain-loader-poster.jpg' %>">
    <source id="webmsource" src="<%= image_path 'fountain-loader/fountain-loader.webm' %>" type="video/webm">
    <source id="mp4source" src="<%= image_path 'fountain-loader/fountain-loader.mp4' %>" type="video/mp4">
    <img src="<%= image_path 'fountain-loader/fountain-loader.gif' %>">
    </video>
</div>
{:/}

## Why did I make this

Google Docs is the best collaborative writing program I've found. It lets me and my writing partner work on a script simultaneously, sometimes even working on the same sentence at the same time. 

But Google Docs is butt ugly. It doesn't even have a decent Courier font.[^font] I'm used to writing code and staring at ugly markup, but my writing partner can't stand it. Google Docs just doesn't look like a screenplay to him.

Fountain Loader bridges the visual gap between Google Docs and the final script. It loads our script as we work on it and generates a preview in another tab. It can also watch the file and update as the document changes.[^caveat]

## Features

- **Pretty damn accurate:** The preview should be very close to how your script will look when output by [<NAME>'s Highland app](http://quoteunquoteapps.com/highland/ "Highland - Quote-Unquote Apps").
- **Responsive:** Multiple layouts so you can preview screenplays on your phone or tablet.
- **Detect Changes mode:** Watches your document and generates new previews with each change.
- **Safe:** Fountain Loader renders everything locally in Javascript. Your screenplay goes directly from Google Drive to your browser without being saved on a server somewhere.

## Possible Future Features

- Use Fountain outlining elements to create fast-links to jump through a script (e.g. jump to act two).
- Toggle to hide notes and outline elements.<commit_msg>Changing video links<commit_after>---
title: Fountain Loader for Google Drive
date: 2014-06-27 20:48 PDT
tags: "tech, projects, writing"
---

[Fountain Loader](http://fountainloader.com "Fountain Loader") is an online previewer for [Fountain screenplay documents][9636-001]. It works with Google Drive™, making it easier to write screenplays in Google Docs.

{::nomarkdown}
<div class="video-container">
    <video autoplay="" loop="" poster="http://fountainloader.com/videos/fountain-loader-poster.jpg">
    <source id="webmsource" src="http://fountainloader.com/videos/fountain-loader.webm" type="video/webm">
    <source id="mp4source" src="http://fountainloader.com/videos/fountain-loader.mp4" type="video/mp4">
    <img src="http://fountainloader.com/videos/fountain-loader.gif">
    </video>
</div>
{:/}

## Why did I make this

Google Docs is the best collaborative writing program I've found. It lets me and my writing partner work on a script simultaneously, sometimes even working on the same sentence at the same time. 

But Google Docs is butt ugly. It doesn't even have a decent Courier font.[^font] I'm used to writing code and staring at ugly markup, but my writing partner can't stand it. Google Docs just doesn't look like a screenplay to him.

Fountain Loader bridges the visual gap between Google Docs and the final script. It loads our script as we work on it and generates a preview in another tab. It can also watch the file and update as the document changes.[^caveat]

## Features

- **Pretty damn accurate:** The preview should be very close to how your script will look when output by [<NAME>'s Highland app](http://quoteunquoteapps.com/highland/ "Highland - Quote-Unquote Apps").
- **Responsive:** Multiple layouts so you can preview screenplays on your phone or tablet.
- **Detect Changes mode:** Watches your document and generates new previews with each change.
- **Safe:** Fountain Loader renders everything locally in Javascript. Your screenplay goes directly from Google Drive to your browser without being saved on a server somewhere.

## Possible Future Features

- Use Fountain outlining elements to create fast-links to jump through a script (e.g. jump to act two).
- Toggle to hide notes and outline elements.
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