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Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Aug 6, 2013 at 09:31 PM
I failed to mention my main workhorse for working on complex texts without distraction: it is Brainstorm, mentioned already by Steve. I have actually set it up with DOS-era colours: bright yellow text on very dark blue background.
Brainstorm isn’t cross-platform but runs in Wine and is very light on resources even with very extensive material.
Posted by Dr Andus
Aug 11, 2013 at 10:29 AM
I’ve been comparing various iOS writing apps to find out which one would be my minimalist champion in terms of ease and speed of use (on iPod Touch 4th gen. and iPad 1), accuracy and speed of typing, efficient use of screen real estate, and most importantly, as few distractions as possible.
Before the comparison my favourite was Nebulous Notes. I compared it with Daedalus, PlainText, and IA Writer. After the comparison the winner is… IA Writer. Each of those other apps are great for various reasons, but when it comes to just focusing on the writing, IA Writer came out on top for the above criteria.
Posted by Dr Andus
Aug 14, 2013 at 09:26 PM
Dr Andus wrote:
>but when it comes to just focusing on the writing, IA Writer came out on
>top for the above criteria.
Hm, while iA Writer still seems to have the best use of screen real estate and focus on the task of writing, it has one drawback. Without internet connection I wasn’t able to open a previous document that I had saved to Dropbox (which is not good).
So I’ll continue to use Nebulous Notes as the local notes storage and interface with Dropbox (as it has the best solution for keeping local notes and selectively syncing with Dropbox that I have seen), while iA Writer would be only used for writing, with immediate export to Nebulous Notes.