IA Writer is one of the most established and widely-acclaimed Markdown editors. Considered to be a “gold standard” Markdown editor, iA Writer is available for devices running macOS, Windows, iOS, and Android operating systems. The application allows you to export Markdown files to HTML, PDF, and Microsoft Word file format using custom. Tables, table of contents, footnotes, cross reference, citations, definition lists, math, metadata and a glossary are all supported by MultiMarkdown. All of these things are not important to me. Sigpro 2 1 4. But tables and footnotes surely are. IA Writer does them and does them well. A major update to iA Writer, the popular Markdown text editor for iOS and macOS, has been released earlier today.I didn’t have enough time to test the beta of version 4.0, but I’m intrigued by the idea of file transclusion – effectively, a way to structure documents with content blocks based on local file references. IA Writer supports MultiMarkdown table of contents, footnotes and even document transclusion. It also supports tables and gives you a nice little tool for creating them. IA Writer Table Editor Speaking of tables, you can even drop in a link to a CSV file and have it rendered as a table.
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July 21, 2016
iA Writer
Product: iA Writer
Price: $8.99
Product: Ulysses
Price: $44.99
Price: $8.99
Product: Ulysses
Price: $44.99
For my markdown based writing, I have switched from Ulysses to iA Writer. I still have Ulysses on the machine. I use it when I am writing stuff which is not markdown based, but that doesn't happen too often. So, I have effectively stopped using Ulysses. All of the blog posts you see on iPadpedia.net is produced with a combination of Sublime Text 3 and iA Writer. Ulysses doesn't play a part in it anymore.
So, what happened?
iA Writer has been redesigned with full support for MultiMarkdown. It has been enhanced with directory support and it has made the act of writing markdown better. Ulysses has been busy making the iOS version universal. I am sure that there are people who are excited by that. Unfortunately, that doesn't include me.
What does full support for MultiMarkdown mean?
Tables, table of contents, footnotes, cross reference, citations, definition lists, math, metadata and a glossary are all supported by MultiMarkdown. All of these things are not important to me. But tables and footnotes surely are. iA Writer does them and does them well. Ulysses is asleep at the wheel.
I think the issue is philosophical. iA Writer was quite lost with version 2.0 or Writer Pro as it was known. They didn't know what they wanted to be. In version 3.0, iA Writer decided to be a MultiMarkdown editor. From that decision, the rest of the feature set becomes understandable. If you are going to support MultiMarkdown, this is what the feature set will look like:
- Support all of MultiMarkdown.
- Concentrate your design focus on making markdown easier to write.
- Support the file system. Manage the user files.
- Add Syntax Check.
- Add Templates to control output.
- Support iCloud and Dropbox. iA Writer's multi-OS presence makes this mandatory.
iA Writer does all these things and does them well.
Ulysses doesn't yet know whether it wants to be a markdown editor or not. It supports Gruber's Markdown but doesn't support any of the enhancements made to it by others. In fact, Ulysses introduces a Markdown XL which is ill-defined. It seems to struggle with supporting any of the markdown extensions, no check boxes, no tables, no inbuilt support for footnotes. It is a great environment to write in, but it is not a great environment to write markdown in. It is a product which is getting a lot of attention and has some very vocal and rabid users. So, it has done some things very well, but it is not for me. I am looking for a markdown editor and Ulysses doesn't support markdown well enough to make the grade. It is a pity really, I love writing in it.
At this point, if you are interested in writing in markdown, you are encouraged to use iA Writer and not Ulysses. iA Writer is the better product for markdown.
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Alfred Workflow 01 - Caffeinate ControlPeriodically I want to highlight Alfred workflows which I find useful. This is the first of the series. If you need a refresher on Alfred, you canI have a workflow in Apple’s Shortcuts app for iOS that automates publishing a post from iA Writer (a Markdown text editor) to my WordPress website. Actually, it does more than simplify a tedious task. It allows me to set all the post data in iA Writer with MultiMarkdown metadata, keep my copy locally, and avoid the WordPress editor altogether. iA Writer’s own WordPress feature doesn’t do that (yet?). Wirecast pro 13 1 0 15.
I can set a Title (or just use a Markdown header), Category, Tags (converted from iA Writer Twitter-style hashtags to comma-separated WordPress tags), the URL slug based on the filename, a Format, the Status to “Published” (not just the default “Draft”), and a Date (scheduled posts!). It handles Markdown export (WordPress must also be set up to receive it with a plugin like Jetpack) or the default HTML export. I set up my WordPress site to expect the posts and update any post with the same filename, allowing me not just to create new posts but edit existing ones. It all works well and I’ve been using this workflow exclusively for some time.
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Except that the shortcut always crashes when I first run it. It succeeds when I immediately run it again. It’s hard to debug because I have to wait some time for it to crash again. I suppose this has something to do with a cache, or the shortcut not having enough memory allotted to it to begin with.
I’ve tried some things to see if I could give it more juice: set up a dummy shortcut that called the longer shortcut, or paused and then called it. I tried to add an action to force the shortcut to run in the Shortcuts app rather than from the Share menu of iA Writer (“Continue Shortcut in App”). I even tried to put various pauses or “Quick Look” actions at the beginning of the shortcut to see where it failed, but it collapses before running even the first action, like Shortcuts sees what’s coming down the line and faints.
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I admit the shortcut is long at 150 steps. It is made of up of several stages that were once separate shortcuts chained together, and it would sometimes crash then too. I may have to break it up further, but then it becomes less shareable. Doo get things done 2 0 0.
Half the fun is putting a shortcut together. They are not usually one-size-fits-all but connect the dots between a choice of services and apps. Apart from my choices of iA Writer and WordPress, this shortcut isn’t too idiosyncratic. It follows MultiMarkdown and WordPress conventions. You can customize it, of course. I documented it with comments in the shortcut to help others (and my future self).
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Do you use iA Writer and WordPress? Try it on and see if it suits. Give some feedback and any ideas about the source of the crash.