![]() The original Tweetie for iPad-what later became Twitter's own official app-experimented with sliding panes that let you view your Twitter timeline and view webpages at the same time. With just a touch screen and one button, the iPad felt like the perfect digital canvas, where your code could turn the iPad into anything you wanted. It started out in late 2010 as a Markdown writing app for the then-new iPad. That praise goes to iA Writer, the writing app I've used nearly exclusively for half a decade. That it's the tool that you rely on, more than any other, in your career. That you've tried almost every competing product, and always return to it. The highest praise you can give to any product is that you choose to use it every day. There's Notepad and Text Edit, and there's iA Writer. There's paper so delightful it inspires pontifications about its finer qualities. There's the paper in your Moleskin, the paper your diploma was printed on, and the cotton paper you'd expect the President to use. There's humble copier paper, and its humbler sibling thermal ink receipt paper. ![]() Paper is not created equally neither are apps. The apps are just a medium-the results are the same. They're blank pieces of digital paper, somewhere to type words, print on humble copier paper, and promptly forget. ![]() It's paper, everyday paper, something to use, reuse, then discard.Īnd so it would seem with writing apps. One would scarcely notice a piece of copier paper, let alone pontificate about the tree that birthed it and the finer qualities of its textures. ![]() IA Writer: Simple Markdown Writing, Perfected IA Writer: Simple Markdown Writing, Perfected | Techinch tech, simplified. ![]()
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