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The video for iA Writer Pro ramps it up a notch, overlaying it all with an anxiety-inducing piano soundtrack that evokes the sound of a clacking typewriter. The video seems modelled on the Apple promos for new iStuff, where Jony Ive and others talk with gravitas about the design process leading up to the new product. Had I not been sitting in the living room with my parents at the time, in the lead-up to Christmas, I would have laughed out loud. The promotional videos for the app are so self-important as to be ridiculous. In fact, my disillusionment with Writer Pro began well before I’d paid its hefty $20.99 price on the App Store. Much as I want to keep you in suspense, and to be generous to Information Architects, whose work and writing I have often loved, it’s hard to hold this back: Writer Pro is catastrophically disappointing.

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Since then I’d mainly moved on to more feature-full apps, among them the newish Ulysses 3 and coder favorite Sublime Text, but the promise of a pro update to iA Writer had me intrigued and I did eventually buy Writer Pro to try it out.

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It's fantastic for composing blog posts using Markdown, or just writing the next chapter of your book in regular text.įor $5 on iOS you really can't go wrong the $30 Mac app doesn't offer anything more (other than the larger screen space) that the iOS versions do, but I look at the Mac version as supporting further development, and of course it's great having all the same documents right to hand on both platforms.Just before Christmas I was surprised by the release of Writer Pro, an update to Information Architects’ feted distraction-free Markdown writing app iA Writer, which was for a long time part of my writing workflow.

The focus mode and other features really help with getting into the flow, and the lack of Word's labyrinthian options means you focus on writing first, editing later. Writer hits the right balance (for me) of a simple interface but there's just the right amount of tools. but it's just TOO plain-text for some things. I really enjoy using iA Writer on iOS thanks to its cloud sync with the iPhone and Mac version. There might be a thesaurus app that does that it’s a great idea if there isn’t. Is there an editor that, as you type, automatically looks up the word you just typed in the Thesaurus and displays alternatives (as opposed to autocompletes) on the Touch Bar? Word processors and slick presentation packages are how you present your problem solution to a wider audience. Whiteboards and text editors are where you really solve the problem. Using IA Writer as a prelude and set-up process for what will eventually become a document ready for publication is similar to using a white board (or mind map) to coelesce concepts for what will later turned into a PowerPoint/Keynote presentation. The longer you can stay away from being bothered by fonts, formatting, visual presentation, and typical document overhead clap trap the better quality of thought you'll get around what really matters - communicating your ideas or concepts. If you veer off into the weeds on your train of thought or coherency it's cheap to start over and/or hack up what you've already done. Best of all they are low investment in terms of your time and effort. Simple editors like IA Writer don't get in the way of your thinking or impede the stream of consciousness with fickleness.

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I may be old fashioned, but I like to start documents in a simple text tool like IA Writer or Textastic and later move the text to a full fledged word processor only after I've captured the essence of what I'm trying to communicate in the document. I actually prefer tagging over autocorrection. IA Writer will still mark misspellings and you can right-click on the flagged misspellings to select a correction. You can start a sentence with lower case using IA Writer if you uncheck the 'Correct Spelling' setting in Editor preferences.