FoldingText for Mac out

Posted by MadaboutDana
Oct 18, 2012 at 02:05 PM

Hm - well, they may have dropped “support” for the iPad 2, but WriteRoom is certainly still running quite nicely on my iPad 2.

I still rate Hog Bay software quite highly (in particular, WriteRoom must be one of the only writing apps where you can actually specify line height), but it’s being rapidly displaced in my affection by Cotton Notes, a pure-D outliner of the single-pane school that is advancing by leaps and bounds (after initial problems with data stability). Not only is it a very powerful outliner, complete with hoisting, but it can also be used as a fairly efficient task management app, in which case tasks can be synchronised with the iOS Calendar app, too. Oh, and it allows you to attach files and images, so not unlike good ole’ Bonsai in that respect (albeit sans columns).

The search function is pretty good, too - although it doesn’t yet highlight “found” terms, which is a bit disappointing. But the developer (Anthony) is extremely responsive, and recently incorporated a whole raft of export features (including export to Dropbox, export to OPML, export to Evernote etc. etc.). Which makes it remarkably flexible. And he’s looking into Markdown support, too…

Cotton Notes is, effectively, FoldingText for the iPad - already here. And currently very cheap. Deffo worth a look.

Cheers,
Bill