![]() Everything in my workflow is new, and I'd be lying if I said I took it well. That's why switching to the iPad to develop the new version of BirchTree (coming within a matter of weeks!) was hard on me. Just like some people always wear the same outfit or eat the same breakfast everyday, I feel like my tried and tested workflow allows me to focus on the code, not how I'm making the code. I work really fast, and I've done that by not changing much in my workflow for years. I command-tab rapidly as I upload files, edit documents, and refresh my browser over and over and over and over. My current workflow involves Sublime Text, Transmit, Finder, and Safari. I won't lie, as someone who has years of experience and workflows built up for writing code for the web on my Mac, the transition was not effortless. So can you write code and develop a website on your iPad? Yes, but. The feeling being that anyone who spends their days in Sublime Text on their computer and is FTPing into their server all day could never make it work on iOS. One thing that always seems to come up in these conversations, and this is likely more due to who tends to write these articles, is writing code. ![]() Last month's release of the iPad Pro got more people questioning what can and can't be done on an iPad, and I want to explore that idea more in this series. The iPad has long been criticized for being a "consumption device" and that "real work" still needs to happen on a desktop computer. App Store: US$4.This is part 1 in a new series on the site about some false notions out there about what you can and can't do on the iPad. TextExpander snippets are supported, too. It supports snippets as well so you can quickly add bits of text to your documents like the current date. You can even write Python scrips with an integrated code and UI editor. What sets Editorial apart is its support for workflows and scripts for automation. App Store: Free (Offers In-App Purchases)Įditorial is a plain text and Markdown editor with HTML preview like the other apps. There are in-app purchases to get color themes, although light and dark mode are free. You can adjust the font family, font size, and line-height, then sync your documents to iCloud, Dropbox, and Google Drive (OneDrive isn’t supported). With QuickText you can write in plain text and edit other text formats like Markdown, HTML, Tex, and more. It also has a feature that highlights “superfluous adjectives, weak verbs, repetitive nouns, and false conjunctions.” App Store: US$49.99 Organize documents from different clouds, embed links, pictures, tables, and other text files within plain text. IA Writer gives you a minimalist space in which to write your thoughts. ![]() App Store: Free (Offers In-App Purchases) You can change the size of the font (it uses the system font) natively, and with a US$0.99 in-app purchase you can unlock a couple of app icons and dark mode. ![]() ![]() It supports plain text and Markdown, but you can also preview and export HTML. Pretext is a minimal editor that integrates directly with the Files app. With these four plain text editors on iOS and iPadOS, it won’t matter in which company’s ecosystem you store them. It’s a good format to use if you’re interested in data archiving. These files can be considered a universal format because virtually all systems support plain text. No fancy formatting, no text colors, no fonts other than the system default. Plain text means just that- text and nothing else. ![]()
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