MadaboutDana
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Writing Software for Writers
9/23/2013
Hm - the list is slightly irritating in that it only sporadically mentions which OS the various editors are designed for. Most of them are in fact iOS or OS/X apps (not an issue in itself, but followi...
Writing Software for Writers
9/23/2013
True, WriteMonkey has things that Texts doesn't (and vice versa, of course); depends on what you mean by "distraction-free". If you used Texts full-screen you'd have no distractions - it doesn't even ...
Writing Software for Writers
9/23/2013
The other nice thing about Texts is that it allows you to open multiple windows very easily (SDI, not MDI), so you can have multiple ideas for stuff open simultaneously (for example, I'm currently dra...
Writing Software for Writers
9/22/2013
I'd also add the very nice "Texts" (currently at 50% discount), which is a rich-text editor that actually produces Markdown files. There are desktop clients for Mac and Windows, as well as an iOS clie...
I do love OneNote, but have become somewhat chary of its OCR because of the linguistic limitations. Just try loading it up with lots of documents in "foreign" (in my case mainly French and German) and...
Horizontal outlining
9/13/2013
And I've just discovered Headspace on iOS - the very epitome of a three-dimensional outliner. Oh lord, I feel a CRIMP coming on!
Horizontal outlining
9/13/2013
It's also reminded me that Literature & Latte's 'Scapple' is available for Windows, albeit as a beta only. Okay, okay, so it's a kind of mindmapping tool. But for writers!
Horizontal outlining
9/13/2013
Mind you, I notice that Tree Outliner can actually swap between a horizontal and a single outline view (http://www.topoftree.jp/images/3_VersionsBrowser.png). That's really rather neat.
Horizontal outlining
9/13/2013
You're right, looking at it again I can see there are issues in terms of screen real-estate. In this sense, Gingko is actually using an even more exciting model; their columnar system is relatively ef...
Horizontal outlining
9/13/2013
Inspired by Gingko - which I think is a brilliant start (the nice bunnies have told me that since there's only one actual developer, it may take a while before a mobile app is available) - I've been l...
Text-based workflow
9/9/2013
Ah, a fellow hopeful. Yup, similar folders on my iPad. I'm just in the process of trying to get rid of dozens of apps I don't actually use, but can hardly bear to part from... Pitiful, really.
Looks interesting (grrrr - no, not a CRIMPer moment, please, really can't afford any more!). I use Snap2PDF for OCRing photos of docs, which also works pretty well.
Text-based workflow
9/8/2013
Yes, that's right - it's a bit old now, and in fact as I was writing about it I was reminded of another two-pane app that's actually almost identical, also supports PDF files (and indeed other file ty...
Text-based workflow
9/8/2013
And in reply to Alexander - yes, Editorial is amazing. What's especially impressive is that you can use it as a perfectly standard Markdown-capable text editor if you want to, but if you really want t...
Text-based workflow
9/8/2013
That, alas, is how Apple makes all that lovely money - the mayfly-like lifespan of their products nowadays! Actually, that's not fair to their notebooks and desktops, but iPads are notoriously short-l...
Fired by all this enthusiasm, I've finally shelled out for iThoughts - very nice, I must say. But I was even more intrigued to find that a nice workflow has been written for exporting formatted Markdo...
Text-based workflow
9/7/2013
There will be those who sigh heavily when they see yet another topic on text in workflows - what's it got to do with outliners, eh? - but they may change their minds (especially if they're iOS device ...
Judoom
9/6/2013
Basically it's identical to SmartEdit, but without all the analysis goodies. Nice piece of software, but as Dr. Andus has noted, slow to launch (like SmartEdit, which clearly has precisely the same un...
Markdown vs WSYWYG
9/5/2013
Hm. I can see where your confusion is coming from, and will confess that my first few encounters with CT didn't end well. Until the latest version (shortly to be superseded, as Dr. Andus has just advi...
Back to ConnectedText
9/5/2013
Deffo scrumptious, then!
Back to ConnectedText
9/5/2013
Hm - it all sounds fairly scrumptious, I must say. And very outliner-y, for those who aren't yet convinced!
I'm using Markdown in a lot of iOS apps (Editorial, Day One, Notebooks, Trunk Notes, Daedal...
Back to ConnectedText
9/4/2013
Okay, I've now downloaded the very latest version of ConnectedText (fired by criticism of the latter in another thread) and have been sniffing at it with interest.
First of all, it is, of course, a f...
Better Bookmarking?
9/4/2013
Another nice feature of Priorities (aside from the free synchronisation) is the fact that you can e-mail yourself tasks. This is another factor that makes up for inadequacies in the Android interface....
Markdown vs WSYWYG
9/4/2013
By "ingenious overview" (whether treelike or not), I mean, of course, "structured overview" (according to a structure defined either by the application itself or by the user's own preferences). Now I'...
Markdown vs WSYWYG
9/4/2013
Sorry, I should have added to my very broad definition of an outliner that the breakdown of a "database" (for want of a better term) into segments or sections should be accompanied by some kind of cen...