1/5/2024 0 Comments Markdown pro vs byword![]() For example, I like to put smaller images to one side or the other in my posts and have the text wrap around them. You can also use “real” HTML if you want in 1Writer which is huge for me. You can even enter links just as their text, as in and 1Writer, when you export to HTML or formatted text, will respect it as a “real” link. If I choose to plop, it automatically highlights the text area for me to type in what I want people to see to represent that link. In 1Writer if I’ve copied the url, all I have to do is tap the link button in that extra row and I get a choice of entering a new link or plopping in the one from the clipboard. Let’s say I want to copy a link from a website and format it properly in Markdown. Again, adding that little dash and a space isn’t hard, but I just can’t remember which character does it. With 1Writer I have a button that says B for bold (which is two asterisks on either side of the word by the way), and a bullet button that starts a bulleted list, and if you hit it again it changes it to a numbered list. I can’t remember if it’s hash marks to do headings or asterisks. I know these things aren’t hard in Markdown, but I can’t remember whether it’s one asterisk at the beginning to make something italics, or does one asterisk make it a bullet. It takes away one of my biggest problems with Markdown, that I can’t seem to remember the syntax. I like it because it gives me instant access to create headings, create bulleted lists, links and embed images. This extra row of keys is called the Extended Keyboard, and it can be disabled in Settings if you don’t need it. First of all, there’s a row of extra keys that show above the onscreen keyboard, or show onscreen when you’re using the Type Cover. ![]() I’d like to jump right into the middle of what I like about 1Writer. This very article is now being written on my 12.9″ iPad Pro using 1Writer. 1Writer is $4.99US so that seemed a small price to pay to find out if I could get on this Markdown/iPad blogging craze. And that’s where the FOMO kicked into high gear. Last week I heard Jason Snell of Six Colors say that he uses an app called 1Writer from for the iPad and iPhone to do his blogging. Might not even be Byword’s fault, it might be that Markdown just isn’t natural for me yet. I use Byword from, and while it’s fine I don’t love it. Don likes the SCO articles to come in Markdown so I’ve been forced to use it. All of the cool kids now are using Markdown instead of HTML to write, mostly because it’s much more human readable so easier to edit, and they’re doing their blogging on the go using an iPad. That’s a lot of preamble with no problem to be solved yet, isn’t it? I think the problem I’m trying to solve is FOMO – fear of missing out. I do have to remember to refresh each time to make sure I’m working on the same version but 90% of the time it works for me. ![]() One advantage of this workflow is that I can partially write a post on one device, whoosh it up as a Draft, and then refresh on MarsEdit on the other Mac and keep writing. I write in HTML in MarsEdit and when I’m done I can whoosh the posts up to my blog and publish from there. Today I write all of my articles using either my MacBook Pro at my desk with the Apple Bluetooth keyboard that I love, or on my MacBook when I’m on the go with the less wonderful but still adequate keyboard.įor the blog I use an app called MarsEdit from which has long been a favorite amongst bloggers. I also write a monthly column in Don McAllister’s ScreenCasts Online Magazine. I write blog posts all week long (in theory publishing them during the week but they seem to pile up towards the end of the week). You might have noticed that I write a lot.
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