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Something new I found for writers
For those of us with an app-using iWhatever.
PlainText (will open in iTunes).
It’s… dun dun dun… a plain text editor. That syncs automatically with your dropbox account.
(if you don’t have dropbox… go… now! Seriously. Free cloud based storage that syncs files between all your computers and devices. Start a chapter on your desktop, finish on your laptop. Or ipad. Iphone. Work computer. The telegraph in your favorite dirigible. Your campfire. The Overmind Brain Interface. Whatever.)
The interface is gorgeous. Supremely minimalistic and, with the no-adds feature, distraction free. How good is it? So good I did the first 2700 words to the next chapter of AOA while on the subway and bus this morning. On my phone.
I did a bit of the Stone and Sky chapter I put up yesterday on my commute home. By the time I sat at my computer it had been synced and a text file was ready and waiting online for me to paste into Word.
Granted, it is exactly what it claims to be: plain text. You can’t do fancy formatting or anything like that. You can type. Do work count. Edit a bit… and, well, that’s about all. But for just banging out the basics while you’re on the go, with full knowledge that it’ll need at least a once-over when you get to a real computer, I don’t think I’ve found anything better.
Of course… now I’m even more anxious to get an iPad.
PlainText (will open in iTunes).
It’s… dun dun dun… a plain text editor. That syncs automatically with your dropbox account.
(if you don’t have dropbox… go… now! Seriously. Free cloud based storage that syncs files between all your computers and devices. Start a chapter on your desktop, finish on your laptop. Or ipad. Iphone. Work computer. The telegraph in your favorite dirigible. Your campfire. The Overmind Brain Interface. Whatever.)
The interface is gorgeous. Supremely minimalistic and, with the no-adds feature, distraction free. How good is it? So good I did the first 2700 words to the next chapter of AOA while on the subway and bus this morning. On my phone.
I did a bit of the Stone and Sky chapter I put up yesterday on my commute home. By the time I sat at my computer it had been synced and a text file was ready and waiting online for me to paste into Word.
Granted, it is exactly what it claims to be: plain text. You can’t do fancy formatting or anything like that. You can type. Do work count. Edit a bit… and, well, that’s about all. But for just banging out the basics while you’re on the go, with full knowledge that it’ll need at least a once-over when you get to a real computer, I don’t think I’ve found anything better.
Of course… now I’m even more anxious to get an iPad.
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Still, if I had a mobile device a nice plain text editor would be good. Perhaps something other than vi... which I love.
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But, on my iphone this is a nice alternative. It’s not a word processor, or even a word processor alternative. But given how much doing-nothing time I have on my commute it’s something functional to use on my phone when a fully featured WP wouldn't be realistic.