June 2011
1 post
Writie 1.1 update
The 1.1 update of Writie has been approved.
New features:
Added TextExpander support.
Added a new theme using the amazing Solarized color palette developed by Ethan Schoonover.
The update is available on the App Store now. Get it here.
May 2011
2 posts
Solarized
Just applied the Solarized theme to Writie and it looked really great, especially the Instapaper bookmarks.
With this, Writie might become my preferred way to read Instapaper bookmarks.
Writie 1.0 submitted
Writie 1.0 has been submitted to the App Store, and I can not wait to see how the market will react to it. I have started Writie expecting it will create a better writing environment for everybody with the integration of Instapaper and Web browser. But honestly, I do not know if it will be better than the status quo. I will have to wait until the app is approved to know but I really hope that it...
April 2011
2 posts
The First Post
This is the first post that I write on Writie itself using the Markdown syntax. The major features in version 1.0 will be:
The documents will be organized into one-level-deep folders. This structure is similar to Instapaper and similar to the app folders in iOS also. It has been proved to be enough for organizing things while prevent users from creating complex, hard-to-manage folder...
The core feature
So the most important feature in Writie will be making it easy to access reference material while writing. I have then realized that the most natural way to do this was integrating Writie with Instapaper. The reasons were:
For a writing environment, the iPad screen size is limited. Instapaper bookmarks are mostly-text versions of the web page, so adjusting them for the small screen size is...
March 2011
2 posts
The state of blogging on the iPad
The iPad is a great productivity tool. But after one year since its debut I see few use the iPad as the only tool for writing due to several reasons:
The touch keyboard: obviously, the iPad keyboard can not be as convenient as a real one.
Formatting and editing is tedious: in the iPad text editor, it’s not easy to move text around or apply custom style.
It’s hard to refer to...
The start of Writie
It all started with this post on multitasking:
The fact that the iPad only lets me see one app at a time often does not help me focus. Instead, it forces me to switch between apps constantly, thus preventing me from focusing on my task. Every time I have to deal with the iPad’s task switching, I’m interrupted.
It is clear that there is demand for an app that helps writers to focus on their...