A pretty unique navigational HUD and software keyboard.Syntax Highlighting for more than 80 languages.The Textastic feature set is pretty impressive for an iPad editor: Textastic is a text editor for developers. They all strive to create the fabled “distraction free writing tool”. Up until now, most of the iPad text editors that I have tried have followed a similar design model. iPadĪnd so we get to the point of this nerdish dribble. The point is, it doesn’t really matter which one you choose. This comes with pre-installed Markdown plug-ins that handle syntax highlighting and HTML previewing. On the Mac, any text editor will do the job. Download a text editor from the iOS App store and chances are it will support Markdown.Īnd this is what it looks like when it has been converted to HTML In fact, this entire blog post is written in Markdown (as are all posts to this blog). Many blogging engines and CMSs have built-in support for the syntax. The syntax was invented by John Gruber and is fast becoming the defacto standard for text nerds. The basics behind Markdown are simple and it really won’t take you long to learn. You will find any number of text editors on the Mac and iPad that have built-in support for Markdown (I’m sure that there are plenty of Windows offerings) Both are well supported on multiple platforms. Markdown lets you add rich formatting whilst maintaining a very simple, very easy to read, standard text format. Microsoft Word is powerful, bloated and not available on Tablets (well… not any tablets worth using).
I hate messing around with different word processors on different platforms. Text files are the ultimate in cross platform portability. Every computing platform ever created can read and write text files and usually come with a free text editor. Everything is automatically kept in sync and everything is backed up. Create a file in the dropbox folder on your PC, edit it on the way home using you iPhone/Android tablet/iPad, finish the edits on your home PC or Mac. Dropbox is a simple, but incredibly powerful, cloud based file synchronisation service.
Why Dropbox?ĭropbox 1 will give you the magic sauce you need to let you edit your files from anywhere. If you want to up your game, get yourself a free Dropbox Account, grab your text editor of choice and learn Markdown. Then please feel free to, in the politest sense… jog on. If you don’t care about the combination of the following words and phrases: WARNING: Severely nerdy post coming up about Text Editors.
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