![]() Developer Anders Borum is always quick to add support for the latest iOS devices and APIs, and his app is at the bleeding edge of modern iOS technologies when it comes to automation, integration with other apps, and support for iOS’ system-wide Files layer. The beauty of Working Copy – besides its support for various advanced Git features – is that it’s an amazing iOS citizen. From a collaboration standpoint, using Working Copy and GitHub for file storage and version control has been one of the best decisions I made in recent years. With Working Copy, we can use the text editors we each prefer and, as long as we overwrite the original copies of our drafts and keep track of commits, the app will take care of merging everything and displaying differences between versions. This system has never failed us in over two years, and it has saved us dozens of hours we would have otherwise spent exchanging revised versions of our drafts and finding changes in them. 1Īs I mentioned two years ago, this system takes a while to get used to: GitHub has a bit of overhead in terms of understanding the correct terminology for different aspects of its file management workflow, but Working Copy makes it easier by abstracting much of the complexity involved with committing files, pushing them, and comparing them. Each MacStories team member has a private GitHub repository where we store Markdown files of our articles in the same repository, other writers can make edits to drafts and commit them to GitHub this way, the author can then pull back the edited file and use Working Copy’s built-in diff tool to see what’s changed from the last version of the file and read comments left by whoever edited the draft. As I explained in a story from late 2016, even though Working Copy is a Git client primarily designed for programmers, it is possible to leverage the app’s capabilities to perform version control for plain text too. Sorry guys.For the past couple of years, I (and the rest of the MacStories team) have used Working Copy to store and collaborate on Markdown drafts for our articles. I will stick with iA Writer on the iPad, and right-off the Mac version purchase as a bum investment. Word I ditched a long time ago - though I still own the latest MS-Office (also prefer Numbers to Excel, and Keynote to PowerPoint). I use Pages, TextWrangler, and (rarely these days) Mellel. But the flexibility afforded by Pages makes it the winner on the Mac, not iA Writer. It provides all the flexibility (simple or sophisticated) I need, albeit without one or two nice features found in iA Writer. ![]() But I use 24-27" monitors, quite different animals.įrankly, Pages in full screen mode is pretty terrific. I can't.īut, on a MacBook Air iA Writer will no doubt shine pretty well. Further, with a large screen, I would like to adjust the margin sizes, top, bottom and sides. For example, I would like to sometimes view the text in a larger size (my eyes are getting old). The Mac form factor, especially with a large screen, requires more flexibility. On the Mac, with it's very different form factor, iA Writer simply does not shine. I am a big supporter of iA Writer on the iPad, and bought the Mac product. ![]() For $9.99 it's a rip off when you can use free alternatives already installed or much better alternatives. It is a first year high school project at best. Last year I donated to OmmWriter Dāna II and never felt cheated for the hard work and a truly unique minimalistic writing tool. I wasn't impressed I was being used as a guinea pig for unfinished software that cost more money than it will ever be worth. IA Writer is as polished as a high school kid's weekend programming project. My applications folder has installed stickies and textedit that offered more stabilty and real world features. I felt cheated after 5 minutes and demanded a refund from apple. How did I like iA Writer? $9.99 for a minimalistic writing tool. ![]() I purchased the app after giving up trying to navigate the app store manually and used the search box. Any other email I recieve within seconds but this email from apple took over 30 minutes. Without the validation email I wasn't allowed to login or make purchases yet. Purchasing this app was my first experience with app store or as others call it correctly the crap store.Īfter what seemed like hours I finally got my app store account working correctly with my credit card and the validation email was finally sent to my email box. Where to even begin with this adventure into idiot-land. ![]()
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