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Author - an interesting app for composing scholarly work
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Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Apr 22, 2018 at 10:43 AM
I don’t think we’ve mentioned this app before. It’s called Author. The developer has some ambitious goals for the app, many of which are already in place. One of these is using pinch gestures to progressively fold the document down to its headings. Take a look at the video for more:
http://www.liquid.info/author.html
Steve Z.
Posted by Paul Korm
Apr 22, 2018 at 11:50 AM
Very interesting, thank you Steve. Liquid | Author is on the Mac App Store now, with exporting (“publishing” to PDF, Word, Plain Text, RTF, Print) for a $5.99 IAP. Liquid | Flow, the capture tool mentioned in the video is also on the Mac App Store.
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
I don’t think we’ve mentioned this app before. It’s called Author. The
>developer has some ambitious goals for the app, many of which are
>already in place. One of these is using pinch gestures to progressively
>fold the document down to its headings. Take a look at the video for
>more:
>
>http://www.liquid.info/author.html
>
>Steve Z.
Posted by Paul Korm
Apr 22, 2018 at 04:29 PM
Turns out the Author features in the video on Hegland’s website are not the features sold in the version on the Mac App Store. Most importantly the major feature for copy text from another source and pasting it as a text citation, or for creating video citations. The developer responded to a query with “This is a feature we had to remove but we are working to bring it back in a more useful way. Please give us one month. :-)” I suppose that’s a fair ask, but one shouldn’t say “out app does blah blah blah” when it doesn’t really do “blah blah blah” or even merely do “blah”.
Other than that, the app for sale today is a kind of RTF editor.
Posted by satis
Jan 5, 2019 at 01:06 AM
App reached version 4.0 in December. Still free(?!) in the Mac App Store, where I just noticed it’s featured on the main page under ‘Apps and Games We Love Right Now.’ Some intriguing features like permanent selectable multi-clipboard and folding text down to outline level and auto citations formatting.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/liquid-author/id951792010?mt=12
http://www.liquid.info/author.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBaNGCCPFzo
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Jun 1, 2019 at 10:57 AM
Author has added a “dynamic view” feature, which is similar to Scapple, but which is bound to your document. I haven’t really tried this out yet, but if it works like is presented in the video (second video down on the website below) it could be astonishingly useful… I haven’t seen any other app do this.
http://www.liquid.info/author.html
Steve Z.