You didn't mention what sort of stuff you would be writing. But for simple note taking I like PlainText:
http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/products/plaintext
It syncs with Dropbox and creates plain text files that can be edited in TextMate.
Mainly note taking, although the files have gotten rather large .. need to toss the cruft!
The high order bit is that the editor work well with textmate. I think that means utf8 & LF and no hidden metadata. So I'll give PlainText a shot.
While looking at the iPad text editors, I saw Markdown mentioned. I hadn't really considered it before, but it looks like a nice way to structure text files with the least intrusion possible. I may give it a shot, and I noticed TextMate has a plugin.
-- Owen
Hogbay developer is a big fan of textmate so you can be sure that plain text would be a safe bet. Super nice guy too.
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On 2011-01-09, at 11:19, Owen Densmore owen@backspaces.net wrote:
You didn't mention what sort of stuff you would be writing. But for simple note taking I like PlainText:
http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/products/plaintext
It syncs with Dropbox and creates plain text files that can be edited in TextMate.
Mainly note taking, although the files have gotten rather large .. need to toss the cruft!
The high order bit is that the editor work well with textmate. I think that means utf8 & LF and no hidden metadata. So I'll give PlainText a shot.
While looking at the iPad text editors, I saw Markdown mentioned. I hadn't really considered it before, but it looks like a nice way to structure text files with the least intrusion possible. I may give it a shot, and I noticed TextMate has a plugin.
-- Owen
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I've used Elements which is built on top of Dropbox. It works with plain text files although it's pretty bare bones.
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On Jan 9, 2011, at 8:19 AM, Owen Densmore owen@backspaces.net wrote:
You didn't mention what sort of stuff you would be writing. But for simple note taking I like PlainText:
http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/products/plaintext
It syncs with Dropbox and creates plain text files that can be edited in TextMate.
Mainly note taking, although the files have gotten rather large .. need to toss the cruft!
The high order bit is that the editor work well with textmate. I think that means utf8 & LF and no hidden metadata. So I'll give PlainText a shot.
While looking at the iPad text editors, I saw Markdown mentioned. I hadn't really considered it before, but it looks like a nice way to structure text files with the least intrusion possible. I may give it a shot, and I noticed TextMate has a plugin.
-- Owen
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On Jan 9, 2011, at 12:39 PM, Charles McKnight wrote:
I've used Elements which is built on top of Dropbox. It works with plain text files although it's pretty bare bones.
Although it forces CRLF line endings and a BOM in your files. No preference to change this behavior. A nice app, though, if you can live with the inconvenience...
Charles
I guess I just never felt it was an inconvenience. I've pulled those files up in TextMate, vi, emacs, and several other editors with no issues. Perhaps a request to the author of the app is in order?
On Jan 9, 2011, at 12:36 PM, Charles Turner wrote:
On Jan 9, 2011, at 12:39 PM, Charles McKnight wrote:
I've used Elements which is built on top of Dropbox. It works with plain text files although it's pretty bare bones.
Although it forces CRLF line endings and a BOM in your files. No preference to change this behavior. A nice app, though, if you can live with the inconvenience...
Charles
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On Jan 9, 2011, at 7:08 PM, Charles McKnight wrote:
I guess I just never felt it was an inconvenience. I've pulled those files up in TextMate, vi, emacs, and several other editors with no issues.
Try running them through various Unix tools.
Perhaps a request to the author of the app is in order?
I think a few have. The author isn't a big fan of preferences:
http://www.leancrew.com/all-this/2010/11/elements-1-5-adds-markdown/
C.
I did try both PlainText and Nebulous Notes, along with Dropbox. It *is* a bit confusing how everything interacts. But the main problem is that these really are more like the Notes apps. For example, neither have an incremental search or a find function that I could see.
So I may, for the while, treat the iPad as a read-only device. GoodReader steadily improves and has a find function. And I'm certain there will be a reasonable editor (Textastic?) soon that can handle large files with search/find etc.
In the mean time, Dropbox+TextMate is way, way cool!
-- Owen
I use Elements despite the CRLF and BOM problems because its Dropbox syncing is excellent, it has a Markdown preview button, and it includes a nice monospaced font, Vera Sans Mono. You can see everything I like and dislike about Elements (and why monospaced fonts are important to me) in these posts:
http://www.leancrew.com/all-this/tag/elements/
One of the posts also describes a simple script that removes the BOM and turns the CRLFs into LFs.
If I had an iPad, I'd also look into iA Writer. Because it's iPad-only, it's of no use to me, but it includes a few good monospaced fonts. The developer's ode to distraction-free writing (http://xrl.us/bied7x) was silly, and was rightly mocked by Merlin Mann (http://xrl.us/bhz5cc), but the app itself looked interesting to me.
The last time I looked (http://xrl.us/bh7qty), Nebulous Notes didn't actually sync with Dropbox, it modified the files on the Dropbox server directly, with no local copy. This is a disaster if you need access to your files when you can't get a network connection.
Finally, there's the original syncing notes app, Simplenote. I stopped using it because it only allows Helvetica, making it nearly impossible to align columns, and it uses its own syncing system instead of Dropbox. But Simplenote has, far and away, the best search feature of any of the notes apps I've looked at. Still not incremental, though.
I just got my Textastic app update. It now has Dropbox and FTP. Seems to work well once yo figure out the interface. Very nice syntax highlighting for writing code. I like the arrow keys to move back and forth on the line instead of having to touch to insert your cursor at the right spot.
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On Jan 10, 2011, at 5:45 PM, "Dr. Drang" drdrang@gmail.com wrote:
I use Elements despite the CRLF and BOM problems because its Dropbox syncing is excellent, it has a Markdown preview button, and it includes a nice monospaced font, Vera Sans Mono. You can see everything I like and dislike about Elements (and why monospaced fonts are important to me) in these posts:
http://www.leancrew.com/all-this/tag/elements/
One of the posts also describes a simple script that removes the BOM and turns the CRLFs into LFs.
If I had an iPad, I'd also look into iA Writer. Because it's iPad-only, it's of no use to me, but it includes a few good monospaced fonts. The developer's ode to distraction-free writing (http://xrl.us/bied7x) was silly, and was rightly mocked by Merlin Mann (http://xrl.us/bhz5cc), but the app itself looked interesting to me.
The last time I looked (http://xrl.us/bh7qty), Nebulous Notes didn't actually sync with Dropbox, it modified the files on the Dropbox server directly, with no local copy. This is a disaster if you need access to your files when you can't get a network connection.
Finally, there's the original syncing notes app, Simplenote. I stopped using it because it only allows Helvetica, making it nearly impossible to align columns, and it uses its own syncing system instead of Dropbox. But Simplenote has, far and away, the best search feature of any of the notes apps I've looked at. Still not incremental, though.
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