![]() This post is part of the warmup week for the March Blogging Challenge, the theme today is Setup. If you have any recommendations, then I’d love to hear them. But I’m still undecided what other app will be the new home for my personal notes and research material. So it’s probably best for me to stop now, and see what other options are available before locking in the year subscription.Īs for writing for my blog, I’m thinking about checking out 1Writer, Werdsmith, and possibly Drafts. In ' the preceding section the writer presented results of an investigation. While I’ve been happy with Craft, there are some flaws. Now my free trial of Craft is a day away from expiring, and I needed top make the decision whether I wanted to continue with it, and pay the £44.99 a year subscription fee. you can as well drag and drop the template file from Finder into Settings Templates. in iA Writer, go to Settings Templates + Install Template. zip: double-click on it in Finder to extract the template. I’d already been using Craft for general notes and research, but I experimented with using it as a blogging tool. download the templates directly from this page or from GitHub. For quite some time I’ve been using iA Writer as my writing app, but a few weeks ago I decided to give Craft a go. But for now I’m using Gluon and the website for my Micro.blog reading and writing. I’m also starting to use Micro.blog again, so I might have to start thinking about that within the context of writing apps soon. Occasionally I also add a featured image to a post, and these either come from myself or from the integration with Unsplash. When I publish my writing, this is done via my Ghost blog which handles my blog and my monthly newsletter. I use my own app Text Case to handle various text transformations, and also a custom app I built for myself to expose the Ghost API to a few Shortcuts to enable me to publish from any app. Regarding the apps, this has been slowly getting simpler, with my writing happening in either Craft or iA Writer (more on that in a moment). Screenshot of iAWriter in Action, showing the customisable folder list, the post list, and the Edit screen, with toolbar at foot with word count. Android and Windows versions also available. And also why I’m desperately waiting for Apple’s next event, because I’ll hopefully be ordering a new iPad Pro and Magic Keyboard. Price 29.99 for macOS (14 day trial) and 29.99 iOS (no trial). So that’s why I’m still split across two devices. My preference is the iPad, but the only keyboard I use is my mechanical keyboard, and that requires me to be sitting at my desk in my office. Two things made me want to write about my writing setup today, the fact that my Craft trial is ending today, and also the theme for the blogging challenge warmup week.īefore I go too deep into my thoughts around Craft, I’ll go over my current setup, and how I write.Īs for devices, I write either on my MacBook Pro or my iPad Pro. Who knew.My Writing Setup (Feb, 2021) # 19 February 2021 Not having all the bells and whistles of the full-fledged word processors means I’m left to the task of actually writing. I have to say, it really does help me focus. Sure, many think they’re just another notebook, yet, there’s something about them that make writing more pleasurable.įor those who want the option of displaying different fonts, light or dark-mode backgrounds, slightly greater Markdown markup capabilities and export options, may want to check out Byword. Like Des said about caring about pen and paper, I love Moleskine notebooks. The interface is clean, there’s just something about it. I jump between the iPad and Mac versions, syncing to Dropbox, building my articles word by word. I thought it was pricey, but I won’t get into that…many articles are already written, specifically about iA Writer’s price. Then the Mac version came out and I debated spending the $17.99. Hostinger AI Writer is the best choice for efficient content creation. ![]() The extra keyboard row with navigation and frequently used keys is awesome. PS: You may want to check out our list of the best AI tools of 2023. I purchased the iPad version when it first came out and loved it. ![]()
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