I like the idea of using something else, something freeware or open source or whatever, and I've tried other stuff, including a quite serious look at OpenOffice (which is nice, and I actually use it on my phone for pdfs and document editing, but I didn't see any particular 'advantages' beyond liking the idea of it). It's funny, for the longest time (like in the '90s) I was WordPerfect fan and similarly disliked MS Word for being too cumbersome, but over time (and this was probably near a decade ago at this point) not only was I increasingly forced to use Word at school and work, but Word got better. There are other little lovely aspects to it – like, at the bottom of the window it not only keeps a running word count, character count, and the approximate time it would take a reader to read the text. One of the more clever aspects of IA Writer is its ‘Focus Mode’ where all the text on the page becomes slightly faded out while the current sentence that you’re writing is not faded out and in the foreground. The best thing about Markdown is that you don’t have to ever grab the mouse to click on ‘bold’ or ‘italic’ and you don’t have to use a keyboard shortcut either. You can do things like bold type, create headings, lists, etc by typing tags from the simple markup language called, Markdown. Its interface is a plain white screen with an elegant typeface and a single font-size.
#USE LATEX WITH IA WRITER MAC#
It’s available in the Mac App Store as well as on the iPad.
#USE LATEX WITH IA WRITER FREE#
My favorite distraction free writing tool at the moment is IA Writer. So why are they always visible? Too distracting. I really abhor Microsoft Word as there are tons – TONS of little icons everywhere that I rarely ever use.
I’ve a huge fan of distraction free writing tools. When I'm ready to pull the writing into Word, I've already finished 95% of it, so I'm mostly using Word for stylistic/formatting stuff. To answer your question, I've found that this method of taking notes and organizing thoughts is the perfect preparation for actually writing the manuscript, so I pull notes in, get them together, edit them, refine them, and eventually synthesize them into actual presentable pieces of writing. For instance, if I'm writing a paper, that's one notebook, but there are sub-notebooks for each section (Intro, meths, etc), which contain "notes" with clustered ideas ("Microscopy protocol" might have it's own "note" under "Methods"). It's got a very functional system of "notebooks" so I can quickly cut/paste info from anywhere (other docs/pdfs/webpages) into it's notebook. Firstly, it syncs online automatically, so at home (or on my smartphone, or laptop) I can pick right up where I left off. Evernote is cool for a number of reasons. Lately, I've been using a (free) note-taking application, Evernote.
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