The Application Store is chock-a-block with various text editors, from full document suites which are a great way to emulating the bloated sack that's Ms Word, to code editors for developers, to super-simple distraction-free writing conditions (hint: if you fail to focus on a window on the screen for lengthy enough to create a sentence, then you've bigger problems).
Now, there s a neat little editor for those who much like me write for that web. This is known as Scribe.
Scribe is really a plain-text editor with a few neat additions for writing prose in HTML. To achieve success like a text editor an application needs to present an almost standard group of options. It requires TextExpander support, DropBox syncing, a custom font (within this situation, a tweaked version of Anonymous Professional) and custom gestures (use two finger swipes to undo and redo). Scribe has many of these, as well as adds an interface-free mode which blanks out everything but just one paragraph in the heart of the screen.
However the distinguishing feature this is actually the clever HTML system. Whenever you highlight a thing, the standard iOS copy/paste box appears, only this is bigger. It now consists of buttons to wrap the choice in a variety of HTML tags: bold, italic, list, strike and so forth, in addition to a URL assistant that will turn a thing onto a hyperlink, while using URL around the clipboard or allowing you to type your personal.
This is clever, and incredibly intuitive, and word counts and previews are only a tap away.
If you discover HTML ugly, you may also use Markdown, a persons-friendly markup language from John Gruber. Within this situation, the buttons operate in likewise way, but rather than adding HTML tags, Markdown symbols are utilized. Thus bold appears like **this**.
Finally, there s iCloud support. For any first version, Scribe is remarkably well considered and implemented. You may also add your personal custom HTML tags towards the popovers. One factor that might be welcome within an update is one thing present in many iPad editors: just one tap within the margin to maneuver the cursor one character at any given time. This is like virtual cursor secrets, and works much better than Apple s method to move the cursor (tap, hold, drag, pray).
On top of that, Scribe is very inexpensive. Just $3 for any universal application, you really can afford to purchase it simply to consider it for any spin. Suggested.
Scribe product page [iTunes]
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