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Posted by Paul Korm
Feb 2, 2017 at 12:16 PM
Should mention that Editorial now supports split screen mode on modern iPads, which makes working with Editorial’s TaskPaper mode very useful side-by-side with another app or document.
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Feb 2, 2017 at 08:50 PM
Speaking of distraction free writing apps, there’s a new one for Mac called `Tabula. This one has a new wrinkle that I haven’t seen before. It interprets the lines on your page and applies styles automatically.
Write A Line All Caps
And it interprets it as a heading. Put such a line at the top of the page and it makes it the title. Likewise, add a hyphen at the start of the line and it interprets the line as a list item. In a lot of ways, this is how TaskPaper works, I suppose. But `Tabula has a variety of export formats—although I don’t think there is a way to customize the exports and is really intended for writing and not for task management. There is an iOS version. I don’t think they sync necessarily, but you can store the files in iCloud and open on either type of device.
This isn’t an endorsement, by any means—I’ve only just played with it for a few minutes. I just thought it was a curious new plain-text “distraction free” app came out recently, and that it has this sorta unique feature.
The website is:
Steve Z.
Larry Kollar wrote:
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>Paul Korm wrote:
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>>He also announced today he was going to create v4 of
>>WriteRoom, his “distraction free writing” app—not sure why the world
>>needs another of those…
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>Agreed, especially when many of us already have a distraction-free
>writing environment
>waiting to be used… at least on Mac and Linux. Blog post from
>August:
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>http://farmanor.blogspot.com/2016/08/tech-tuesday-distraction-free-for-free.html
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>Doze 7 doesn’t have EDLIN, it seems. Pity. But you can use the clone
>shipped with FreeDOS.
Posted by Paul Korm
Feb 2, 2017 at 09:45 PM
Thanks for the hint on Tabula.
It’s a good thing it’s 50% off now on the app store—makes it a cheap CRIMP. I think for writing simple documents that need a quick format before exporting to PDF it’s a good deal. Though, by not supporting tables, quotes, and other markdown features, it’s rather limited. I think I would pass up the iOS version—one Tabula is enough.
Posted by Captain CowPie
Feb 9, 2017 at 09:19 PM
I was using TaskPaper/Editorial extensively prior to moving to DevonThink and it really has improved significantly. There was a lot of power being created in the app. I just hope Jesse sticks with it this time and keeps it active.