Textnut update

Posted by MadaboutDana
Feb 18, 2016 at 09:44 AM

Sorry, should have said iPhone, iPod, iPad. And it’s TextNut, not Textnut.

Also worth mentioning that you can customise its appearance fairly extensively, that it has a Zen mode (for non-distraction writing), a built-in wordcount and various other thoughtful features.

The desktop version has a fairly efficient search engine (although no highlighting within text contents, so not as good as Ulysses). The iOS version doesn’t yet have this, but it’s been promised.

The iOS version allows you to create subfolders in your Libraries; the desktop version doesn’t appear to, but deals quite happily with subfolders if they’re already there (in Dropbox folders, for example).

The editor uses a rich-text interface – you can enter Markdown codes, but they are immediately shown as rich text (rather than the kind of hybrid Markdown used by e.g. Ulysses, Letterspace et al.). You can switch to a traditional Markdown look if you prefer (which does give you a hybrid preview), and of course there’s an option to see a full preview of the resulting output, too.

Finally, it has an extensive range of output options; PDF, HTML, RTF and Markdown. It integrates with WordPress, Blogger and Medium (the blogs you’ve connected to are shown, quite sensibly, in a separate section of the output menu).

It is, in short, a whole different app!