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Write! - distraction-free writing software
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Posted by Dr Andus
Jan 4, 2015 at 01:26 AM
Dr Andus wrote:
>It’s still in beta. It didn’t warn me before closing an unsaved file, so
>one needs to be careful with it.
Actually it did save my file. I just didn’t realise that closing the app minimised it to the system tray.
Posted by jaslar
Jan 4, 2015 at 11:32 PM
Interesting. While I haven’t downloaded it yet, what I really like about this - as with Smartdown - is the built-in text folding - which is the piece that I find most useful.
On Dr. Andus’s recommendation, I looked at WriteMonkey, and I liked its “jump” navigation (much like the OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice navigator, without the section manipulation guides). But Smartdown’s text folding was pretty cool, as was the preview, neither of which were part of WriteMonkey.
I gather than Write! is following a similar model to Smardown? - give it away to get a little buzz, then tell you what it costs. So depending on the price, this might be a very fine writing environment. But I can’t quite tell what the file format is, either. Plain text, RTF, other?
Posted by Dr Andus
Jan 5, 2015 at 12:40 AM
jaslar wrote:
>what I really like about
>this is the built-in text folding
Oh, I missed that somehow. Thanks for pointing that out. Yes, there is a lot to like about Write!
>But Smartdown’s text folding
>was pretty cool, as was the preview, neither of which were part of
>WriteMonkey.
I do like SmartDown’s text folding as well, effectively it turns it into a single-pane outliner.
But WriteMonkey does have a preview window plugin now. It even allows you to view the text in a variety of styles. You can have it open beside the text editor or in another monitor. See:
http://writemonkey.com/preview.php
>But I can’t
>quite tell what the file format is, either. Plain text, RTF, other?
I don’t have my Win machine on so can’t check right now, but I recall seeing the option to save or export as .TXT or .RTF, I can’t remember the third format (HTML or PDF?). I just closed down the app and it saved my file without me choosing a format, I presume it was in their native format.
Posted by Dr Andus
Jan 5, 2015 at 12:05 PM
Dr Andus wrote:
jaslar wrote:
>>But I can’t
>>quite tell what the file format is, either. Plain text, RTF, other?
>
>I don’t have my Win machine on so can’t check right now, but I recall
>seeing the option to save or export as .TXT or .RTF, I can’t remember
>the third format (HTML or PDF?). I just closed down the app and it saved
>my file without me choosing a format, I presume it was in their native
>format.
Files are saved in its native .draft or .wtt format (depending on whether you choose “save” or “save as”), and then the export options are PDF, ODF (.ODT), .TXT, and .mdown for Textile, Markdown, and Wiki.