![]() how many other computers produce that effect? The first time I grabbed my iPad to see if I could edit a Pages document I was working on in a Mac in another room (which could just as well have been another building/city/country), rather than leave what I was doing to get to that Mac, and the document popped up, to the character the same as what was open in Pages on the Mac, I got the silliest grin. With Mountain Lion and iCloud document sharing, working across Mac, iPad and iPhone/iPod becomes almost transparent. 6,000 pounds lighter than Word and much easier to use once you get used to it. I haven't had enough time with the new applications yet, but my preliminary tests are hopeful and I think I'll be making a major switch to my workflow.Īctually, Pages is a pretty good writing tool. Since this answer was originally posted, Byword (iOS) has been released and Byword (OS X) was updated to include iCloud support so that documents sync automatically in near-realtime between Byword running on different devices. I save current projects to DropBox so that I can work on them from any of several Macs or from my iPad and (if absolutely necessary) iPhone. I previously used Elements on iOS but recently switched to Writing Kit because of its integrated web browser for research and the ability to quickly bring web URLs into your document. ![]() #Ia writer footnotes seriesIt also features a focus mode that keeps the line of text you're currently composing in the middle of the screen and scrolls the previous lines up-like a typewriter.īecause my writing workflow is Markdown based I make use of Brett Terpstra's Markdown Service Tools on the Mac, particularly the Service that allow me to quickly bring a series of Safari tabs into a Markdown document as linked references. Byword (OS X) DropBox Writing Kit (iOS)īyword is a wonderfully simple prose editor that includes Markdown preview and exports Markdown formatted documents into a number of common formats including RTF and PDF. ![]()
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