One year ago, we launched Highland Pro. I was confident in the app itself, having put it through its paces over its multi-year development journey. I’d written dozens of scripts and novels in Highland over the years, and knew that Highland Pro was the best version we’d ever made. Our beta testers loved it, too. […]
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How I use Highland Fling
Fling is a brand new feature for Highland Pro that addresses a long-simmering frustration: getting feedback on what you’ve written. Whenever I finish a draft, I want to give it to some trusted people to read — both for comments and general proofreading. In the old days, that generally meant printing and handing it to […]
Introducing Highland Pro
Today, we’re launching Highland Pro. It’s the next generation of our flagship screenwriting app, now available on Mac, iPad and iPhone. Here’s a video I made about it. With Highland Pro, our mission is to keep you focused on your work. From its clean interface to innovative features like the shelf and /lookup, Highland is […]
The Free Stuff
My friend Nima recently pointed out that most of the stuff our company makes is free. That’s probably not a great business model, but it’s always been our culture. We only charge for those things that have significant ongoing costs — like upkeep and hosting — or a per-unit cost to produce. If you’re a […]
2020 Annual Review
Now that we’ve called a wrap on 2020, a year that maybe wasn’t the worst in history but sure felt like it, I want to take stock of what I accomplished over the prior 12 months. While the pandemic impacted everything, many aspects of my life marched along with minimal disruption. I still wrote movies. […]
Highland gets a new Novel template
Although Highland 2 was originally developed for screenwriting, many novelists use it for books. In fact, I wrote all three Arlo Finch novels entirely in Highland. Michael Chabon, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Wonder Boys and many other acclaimed novels, has been writing in Highland for years. Like […]