![]() The same text in Markdown preview on the iPad. For most writers, a simple plain text editor such as Notesy is all that’s needed. All require a level of dediction that I haven’t yet mustered. Among these apps I would include WhiteNote, ThinkBook and Circus Ponies’ NoteBook. Some notebook apps for iOS (not necessarily all plain-text) have a steep learning curve and even starting your first note is a challenge. Just choose your default settings and wade in with your first draft. Notesy is a simple application and there’s a zero learning curve. In addition you get to choose from 10 pen colours, again including Solarized. Personally I prefer using a fixed-width font for general writing it is easier to see errors and to place the cursor accurately for corrections, especially on the small screen of the iPhone.Īppearance is fully customisable, with 16 background colours, including Solarized dark and light. After that you can flip back and forth from fixed to variable at will. Once you have chosen one fixed-width and one variable-width font they become the default for all notes. Choice of font is made in Settings: There are ten fixed-width fonts, plus bold variations in most cases, and 20 variable-width plus bold in some cases. One of the big benefits of Notesy is that you can switch rapidly from fixed-width to variable-width fonts, even while editing a document. This view shows the top and bottom toolbars but you can easily select full-screen mode for clutter-free writingAppearance The information box can be called up to show basic document information. The first draft of this article on the iPad using the Solarized Light theme. Otherwise, it’s business as usual with simple, clear text and the option to work uncluttered in full-screen mode. Two enhancements, made this month in v2.0.1, correct hitherto annoying omissions: The ability to work with folders and to preview a note in Markdown. He is extremely responsive and is constantly looking for ways to improve the user experience. The developer of Notesy is Dave Findlay, a Scot now living in the USA. I’ve been giving it a good run during the past few months, both on the iPhone and on the new iPad 2, and I’m impressed enough to make it my new favourite. This is a pity because it’s right up there with the best of them. Of course, if it floats your boat, Bean is an even simpler and cheaper alternative to Word but much more limited when it goes beyond pure text.When I reviewed plain-text editors in mid February I missed out a very worthy contender, Notesy for Dropbox, simply because I hadn’t come across it at the time. Much cheaper than Word, much nicer to use. And it is free.īut if you want some formatting or even images, my vote clear goes to Pages. And just hit enter and have create a new note with your term in the search box as title. Type anything in the search box on top, and it searches all your notes much like typing anything in the search box in Mail.app or iTunes would do. It syncs up via SimpleNote to iOS devices and the web (and multiple computers). This is where I keep my recipes (and a lot of other things). If simplicity and easy of use is key (and these recipes are text-only with no real formatting requirements) my advice would be Notational Velocity which is essentially a DAM (or if you want an iTunes) for text files in a form which could not be simpler. While OpenOffice and its sisters NeoOffice and Libreoffice are free, if Word is overkill in terms of features and complexity, OpenOffice will be so as well.
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