Nothing really groundbreaking on this front. You can email your text if you want, as well as copy it (useful if you want to have a local copy of blog entries…which you should want 3) and the word count is displayed in the top right corner of the app’s function bar. I know that for some this would be something they’d get used to, but after a month of using the app I still couldn’t get used to it. While i’m not for editing on the fly, I find that I couldn’t help but focus on the errors as opposed to the flow. That said, maybe those people aren’t cut out to be writers. I’m not sure how useful this feature is for most writers, other than those that really suffer from lack of focus.
No auto-correction, no going back to delete…nothing but non-stop writing. This is called “Focus Mode” because it doesn’t allow you to do anything but focus.
Some of the keyboard functionality that it contains is extremely helpful and unique to the app (such as keys to go to the beginning and end of a word, one key that opens and closes parentheses, etc.) and it also allows you to lock the screen in such a way that almost forces you to just write away. For writers who are looking for a different platform to publish their work on (print, for example), it can definitely get you through several drafts right through to publication. I end up adding tags and hyperlnks in “post” using the WordPress backend, but I don’t expect any straight-up writing app to get me past the draft stage of a blog post, anyway. It syncs with Dropbox 2 and allows for drafts to be easily mocked up and synced. That’s the best way to look at multitasking on the iPad or iPhone. When an app is open, unless you’re using it at the time, I’d say that it isn’t “active” because it is out of the way and takes longer to access than a window or tab. It’s not as if you can have multiple windows or tabs open like you can on a traditional computing device, even though you can have multiple apps open. That’s because the design and setup of iOS precludes true multitasking anyway. I guess it’s true that there is no such thing as bad press.įirst off, I’ll say that pretty much every app (whether it is a writing app or otherwise) on the iPad or iPhone can market itself as “distraction-free” should choose to do so. 1 After laughing in agreement, I went out and bought the app.
To be honest, what drew me to this app was Merlin Mann’s post that satirized the notion of an app that allows distraction-free writing. The first candidate is ia Writer by Information Architects. What I haven’t decided is which writing app I plan to settle on to do so. As I’d mentioned in my inaugural article, I intend to draft all of my writing for on my iPad.
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