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Ia writer browser11/22/2023 I love it when ⌘+ b or i makes text emphasised or strongly emphasised, ⌘+ l makes a list, that kind of thing.I didn’t mention this at the top as it’s possibly not a deal breaker, but I love it when an app that’s editing dumb old text files is smart. But that’s an enhancement of the plain text – I’ll always have exactly the text I wrote in full view. I want the square brackets followed by round brackets with the ‘ugly’ URL in full view!ĭon’t get me wrong, though, a good writing app should make emphasised text italic, strongly emphasised text bold, underline that URL in the round brackets, indent each item in a list. I don’t want links to be the link text with an underline, hiding the link itself away – that’s what HTML’s for! I don’t want any gimmickry where things stop looking like plain text. It might be convenient (it might even be better!), but it’s not for me. Writing apps that come with some weird proprietary format or hidden/obfuscated file structure are not for me. Portability and future-proofing are the main reasons: I should always be able to find any article I’ve ever written by looking for it in Finder (or Terminal whatever file system browser I might use in the future). You might already know that I’m a huge fan of Markdown. I want to work in text files and I want those files to behave just like plain text does as I edit them. I like iCloud, so if I can use it as my backend I will, but Dropbox is a decent fallback. I need a ‘backend’ that automatically sends my work to the cloud and pushes it down to all of my other devices. It’s kind of a given these days, but worth mentioning. Why? Well…Īnd I want an app on each of my devices – be that a Mac, iPad or Phone. I’ve tried to get used to it in fact, I’ve had to try as lots of places I’ve worked in and clients I’ve worked with use Google Drive and Google Docs extensively. There’s something weird about opening my web browser to do write, edit code, and other work-y things. A proper, native app on each device (web-apps aren’t allowed).I want to start writing on one laptop at the office, throw down a few more ideas on my phone while on the train home, then pick up where I left off on my iPad at home that evening. That’s not a lot to ask, is it…? An app on each of my devices I want to pick up work I did on one device on another device without thinking about it. I do the majority of my writing on a laptop, but what if an idea comes to me while standing on the Metro? But how and why I decided on my favourite writing app is hopefully worth reading.īefore I even started, I have a few prerequisites:
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