![]() ![]() 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 SERIES#It 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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