![]() ![]() Occasionally, though, the mood calls for an elegant champagne flute. BBEdit and MarsEdit are like pint glasses or coffee mugs. The best way I can put it is that iA Writer is a classy app. This core alignment with Academic Writing requirements is supported by Syntax Highlight and Style Check features. But they pull it off - all three of iA Writer’s typefaces are very good (I’m a Duo man myself). iA Writer was designed for creating uncluttered, focused, and concise text. iA Writer is even so presumptuous as to only use its own custom typefaces: Mono, Duo, and Quattro. ![]() To me it’s the gold standard for Markdown syntax styling - great colors, real italic and bold styling for *italic* and **bold** spans, and, my very favorite touch, outdented #’s for headings. So while I’d never consider using a Mac writing app that wasn’t richly scriptable and customizable, it’s not an issue for me on iPad. I don’t use any of iA Writer’s actual “focus mode” stuff, I just find iPadOS naturally better for focusing on a single task. You can also use the formatting buttons in the bottom bar of your text window on OS X or the formatting keys in the Keyboard Bar of iA Writer for iOS. This lets you apply basic formatting by adding a few punctuation characters. To me, its the gold standard for Markdown syntax. It doesn’t feature the noob shortcuts for markdown (if you try and paste a URL into a piece of text, it’ll steadfastly refuse to do so and instead replace the highlighted text entirely), and assumes that you’re relatively familiar with Gruber’s markup language from the get-go. The right words for each sentence, sentences that snap together into paragraphs, paragraphs ordered properly into sections, sections that together form a complete piece. Markdown Guide Our apps use Markdown formatting. My favorite iOS app for writing in Markdown, without question, is iA Writer iA Writer is just beautiful. iA Writer is a really raw text editor, compared to Ulysses. The truth is I don’t do much of my writing on my iPad (and almost none on my iPhone) but when I am writing on my iPad, it’s generally something long, and I’m trying to focus. Jason Snell has it on his aforelinked shortlist, but dings it for its lack of extensibility. Could the iaWriter templating system be simpler Oh, goodness on a stick, yes. So where notes go is really a function of the CSS in the template. Me, my favorite iOS app for writing in Markdown, without question, is iA Writer. Remember that what iaWriter is actually doing is generating HTML from the markdown document (s) you create. ![]()
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