One feature of iA Writer 3.0 that survived the shift away from iA Writer Pro is writing syntax analysis. The (now defunct) iA Writer Pro had implemented a unique “workflow” concept that I thought had a lot of potential, and which only showed the formatted text at the stage at which it was relevant, but that’s maybe a topic for a whole separate post. Plus, I can’t really think of a reason you’d want to see a preview of the formatted text while you’re composing. I’m personally not a fan of this feature, though, because the preview pane pushes the editing pane off to the left of the screen, making for less-than-ideal ergonomics.
The app also gives you the option of showing a preview pane along side the editing pane to see what your formatted text is going to look like. After I’ve finished this, I’ll compare iA’s estimate with Medium’s and let you know what I find (see below). IA Writer also provides text statistics as you write, including sentence, word and character counts, and it estimates read time much like Medium does. It’s got full-screen mode, focus mode, and typewriter mode, and I’m using all of these to type this now, and it’s nice!
IA WRITER FOR IPHONE MAC
It’s the app I’ve been using to type this post so far, and it’s a fairly typical example of your minimalist Mac writing app, of which there are many, most (if not all) of which center around the MultiMarkdown syntax. Since it’s a popular app and was recently upgraded to version 3.0, let’s take a look at iA Writer first. IA Writer 3.0 with syntax analysis set to highlight adverbs The way of Zen It’s also overkill if you mostly do short-form writing. Nonetheless, there is a learning curve, so the tool doesn’t quite get out of the way of creativity like some of the more minimalist apps do. Fortunately, it does also have a distraction-free “Composition Mode” as well as a typewriter mode. But that strength is also its main weakness: it can be overwhelming. So where do we turn?įirst, let me just say that, for book writing, you’ll be hard-pressed to find anything better than Scrivener. What if you like to jot down snippets of text as the ideas come to you and then flesh out those snippets and put them together into a longer, completed piece? We all have our own methods and preferences, and the Medium draft editor isn’t going to meet all of these needs. Even sell our stories to other publications.Īnd what about researching our work and organizing our ideas. Or maybe put together a collection of our writings into an e-book. We’ll probably also want to post to our blogs. Plus, if we’re serious about our writing, we probably aren’t going to just want to post everything to Medium and only to Medium. But like any app, it has it’s limitations. Of course, as Medium writers, we also have to deal with Medium’s draft editor, which is a perfectly fine, distraction-free editor and is one of the things we love so much about Medium in the first place. I’ve tried so many different writing apps over the years, that I’m not even sure which is the best one for my own particular writing needs, so I thought now it was about time to figure it out. If it’s a stylish - preferably minimalist - writing app that doesn’t cost an arm and a leg, odds are I’ve got it.
IA WRITER FOR IPHONE FOR MAC
My specific addiction is writing apps for Mac and iOS.
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