My only grievance, you guessed it, is more customization! This means more fonts, more color palettes, and more storage solutions like Google Drive.
Ia writer pro review professional#
magical! I’m not a professional by any means, however, as a college student I have had almost nothing to complain about when using this application. If all you want to do is write, you should give iA Writer a try.This application coupled with an iPad Pro and a magic keyboard have, quite frankly, made my on-the-go writing experience. Microsoft Word is hard to beat if you need an app that lets you design, program, comment, and format text. iA Writer is focused on writing, designed to be fast, simple, and light. In return, it is slow, complex, and heavy. The upside is that it lets you do anything you like. In consequence, Word needs an infinite number of features. “Your program is the single most useful and remarkably clever-invisibly so-device for writing that I can name.” –Augusten Burroughs
“Everything goes away, except the Writing Experience” –Stephen Fry “iA Writer is an example of how powerful simplicity and accessibility can be for creating commercially successful interfaces, applications or services.” –The Guardian Microsoft Word was created when the final form was clear (paper), iA Writer was created to optimize the writing experience.
The design of a writing app can go two ways: 1) Write in the published form. Instead of hacking your text out and revising it without end, you should write as you speak. Writing is most efficient if it is done carefully. IA Writer Duospace is a special writing font that comes with all the benefits of a classic typewriter font but gets rid of the downsides. But, most importantly, it keeps your mind in the text. Compared to using both mouse and keyboard, it is fast. All you need to learn are a few characters, and you never need to push any buttons to structure your text. Syntax Highlight allows you to quickly spot stylistic errors, and Content Blocks allow you to work with tables and pictures and connect documents without ever leaving the plain text.Īuto-Markdown formats your text as you type. Microsoft’s “Focus Mode” puts a black frame around the paper sheet and hides its bells and whistles: Focus Mode is iA Writer’s signature feature. The only way to fight that fear is: Focus, get started, and get it done.įocus Mode blinds everything out except the sentence or the paragraph you are working on. So we don’t need to face others and ultimately ourselves. When we are about to do something important, we are most likely to procrastinate. iA Writer allows you to share the draft and publish the final document in different formats. IA Writer uses universally readable plain text and strictly separates between form and content. Ideally, form and content are separated, as it is in HTML and CSS, as each platform has different formatting conditions. In 2018, writing and publishing require a sharable basic format. Things go wrong because of the high complexity of the Docx format. Docx is a widely shared standard, but using a proprietary format, you risk losing formatting, getting into conflicts between different platforms or document versions and losing data. MS Word’s proprietary format requires an app that reads and writes. Today, writing is rarely done by one person or in one program alone. Shouldn’t writing and reading environments follow different design principles, too? Writing needs to create text independent of different layouts. Reading happens in a designed, defined frameset. Writing requires great flexibility to move words and blocks of text around. Writing and reading require a different mindset. And if you are indeed producing a PDF, the reading layout is not necessarily a great layout for writing text. The downside is that there is no final shape in web publishing. The upside is that you see your text in its final shape. In Microsoft Word, you are typing inside the final layout, the letter, the PDF, or the book.
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