![]() ![]() Text copies easily into my WordPress site. I found the whitespace afforded by iaWriter to be somehow relaxing. During my round trip flight I generated 7 blog posts – potentially more than I would have created on Word over a similar period. With Writer all your thought goes into what you write, not how your writing looks. We asked the best type, screen and graphic designers in the industry (see Credits) to work with us on the design – so you don’t need to worry about it. TYPOGRAPHY: Writer comes with a typographic design that works perfectly on the iPad. We believe that reading time is a more useful measure to assess the quantity of digital text.ģ. ORIENTATION: Page numbers work well for physical objects where they are tangible, but they are meaningless for digital text. Some also say that it helps them to get started with the first sentence.Ģ. The original purpose is to free your field of sight when you get stuck. Our solution to that problem is called “Focus Mode.” Some use only focus mode for writing. Too much editing in the drafting process leads to writer’s block. CONCENTRATION: Traditional text editors drag us into a chaotic loop of crisscross editing, which destroys the voice and the organic structure of our original thought. Unfortunately, text editors have their issues:ġ. Many professional writers use SimpleText or Textedit because these are the only writing programs that are distraction free. What you need to write well is a spartan setting that allows you to fully concentrate on your text and nothing but your text. The key to good writing is not that magical glass of Bordeaux, the right kind of tobacco or that groovy background music. Here is how the creators of Writer see the value of their app: This is cool: All of your writing automatically uploads to your Dropbox. And these disappear when you switch into ‘ focus mode‘ – all you see here is the last three lines written. ![]() All you see is word count and a couple of simple function buttons (interestingly it quantitates reading time). Text editors and word processing programs create distractions. It’s essentially a white screen with a fixed type design intended to facilitate concentration on what your create, not how it looks. Writer offers a strangely simple application for writing. Using a wireless keyboard I test drove iA Writer, an interesting new writing app for the iPad. This week I took a trip to Seattle and left my MacBook Pro at home. If you own an iPad you may be of the mindset that it’s not built for writing. ![]()
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