At least not using iA Writer and not using Spotlight on the Mac (Spotlight doesn’t index Markdown files). Second, and most disastrously, you cannot search text inside an iA Writer document. This in itself isn’t a deal breaker, but this lack of any real publishing options takes away from the overall utility of the software.īug: an annoying new behaviour of hiding the text behind the extended keyboard. Cut’n’paste is the quickest way to use the text you have written, but cut’n’paste is still painful in iOS. In iOS 8 you can use the open in service to send to Evernote but it’s saved as an attached file and unusable. designed in an age where many never sent their writing to print. There isn’t a publish to services like WordPress or Evernote feature, which seems like an odd exclusion for an app. Using the Mac version you can open the saved files in other software that supports the exported format. from within the app., which allows you to send it to Evernote or to an email recipient. On the iOS version you can email the formatted doc. Unfortunately, iA Writer has extremely limited options in terms of where you can “send” the document. Unfortunately, lately I’ve noticed a couple shortcomings with iA Writer which I surprisingly hadn’t noticed in the past.įirst, after you have written your document, you need to do something with it, save, send and print are the usual choices (“what can you do next” are natural questions you might record in testing). come to mind but I prefer to do as much of my writing in one environment as possible. which might be better suited to the majority of what I do, Notational Velocity, Evernote, and Apples bundled notes app. There are a multitude of dedicated note taking apps. IA Writer is an important part of my workflow, enough so, that any email that requires a thoughtful response, beyond my usual short blunt replies, particularly anything written in Chinese, is first written in iA Writer. a joy, including how it saves with an automatic title in case I forget to. There are a number of other subtle decisions they have made that make using the app. There is also the oft promoted concept of distraction free writing, which has value, but until you block Facebook, distraction is still only a keystroke away. Markdown support means I don’t have to remove my hands from the keyboard. on my iPhone, start typing almost immediately, come home, finish where I left off on my Mac, and later edit on my iPad. I love the simplicity, the bundled typeface and the fact that I can open the app. Then along came iA Writer and despite a particularly rough start, whereby it didn’t support Chinese, it has been my go to tool for writing text of all lengths ever since. Eventually, I settled on BBEdit and Textmate for a long period of time for both writing words and mark-up. I also created prototype for a “universal text box” from which all data could be sent, much like Drafts 4 or Editorial on iOS today, but I lacked the programming ability to make it work. Since then I’ve experimented with a number of different solutions, from the robust Nisus Writer to the simplistic Textedit. Microsoft Word was deleted from my computer many years ago, it possessed far more features than my needs required, and it’s ridiculously heavy handed interface was painful to use.
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