![]() ![]() Pro RTL support Supports right-to-left languages. Pro Allows customizing style You can change the font to suite your needs. Pro Supports Markdown Supports the CommonMark Markdown format. With better Dropbox integration, the app could go from good to great. iA Writer is available for Mac, iPhone and iPad. iA Writer’s iPad version provides the same simple interface as the Mac, helping maintain concentration by leveraging simple, easily read text. But it’s an elegantly simple way to write on the iPad, clearly built with writers’ needs in mind. Of course, it’s an iPad app, and there’s a glistening Home button present at all times that’s eager to help distractible writers procrastinate the day away with just a tap, so I wouldn’t suggest you assume that iA Writer could cure your focus problems. I appreciate its attempts to help writers focus. txt extension plain text files ending with an extension like. (It’s especially silly that when you enable syncing for the first time, the app syncs its default “About Writer” and sample “Alice in Wonderland” documents.) Also annoying is that iA Writer doesn’t sync with Dropbox automatically you need to trigger that action manually. Your files must be in UTF-8 or UTF-16 encoding, and they must be named with a. If you enable the Dropbox linking, the app creates a Writer folder in your Dropbox account, and all the documents you store in the app are synced to it. You can indeed link to your Dropbox account painlessly, but you either sync all your iA Writer files, or none of them. The app also offers Dropbox integration, but I find its approach lacking. I found those all useful when using the virtual keyboard, though I too frequently tapped the right arrow at the top edge of the keyboard when I was aiming for the Backspace key. There are virtual keys in place to skip forward and backward one word at a time, a few frequently used punctuation marks, and left and right arrow keys. The on-screen keyboard includes a couple extras atop the iPad’s standard display. Stay Focused: In Focus Mode, iA Writer removes the header, the scroll bar, and other features, graying out all the text except for the three current lines of text you’re writing. ![]() It’s obviously not a mode to leave enabled at all times (since it prevents you from navigating the document in full), but it’s a great tool in the writer’s arsenal when you feel blocked as you attempt to finish writing a paragraph or section. It also grays out all the text save for the current three lines of text you’re writing in. Focus mode removes the header, along with the scroll bar, the ability to tap to move the cursor, spellcheck, auto-correction, and copy/paste. You tap a lock icon in the header to toggle Focus Mode. If singular attention is your goal, a unique Focus Mode may help. The constant time reminder keeps you on task the word count lets you know whether you’re approaching your target. The Mac version gains some AppleScript support, a document proxy icon (so you can drag it out of the titlebar), support for the window management software SizeUp and assorted bug fixes and enhancements.Īs part of its iCloud introduction campaign, iA Writer’s developer Information Architects is currently offering a discount of 50 percent on the Mac version, so you can get it for $8.99, and a 60 percent discount on the iPad version, which sees its price reduced to $1.99.Thus, in many ways, iA Writer is an easily-distracted writer’s dream. Other new features in the iPad version include support for Dropbox folders and online editing, along with the usual spate of bug fixes. It helps us as tech writers to be able to work on the go and ensure that everything stays accessible. On the iPad, you can save documents to iCloud using the new file browser that is also a part of the update, and on the Mac, a new iCloud submenu under the File menu lets you both access the files that are synced to iCloud and add new ones to it. We took it for a spin and found it to be really easy to use. With the latest version of the app installed on your iPad and your Mac, you can choose to save any of your documents to iCloud and then access it from both devices. IA Writer got an update today that adds a significant new feature: iCloud integration. ![]()
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