Microsoft’s “Focus Mode” puts a black frame around the paper sheet and hides its bells and whistles: Focus Mode is iA Writer’s signature feature. The only way to fight that fear is: Focus, get started, and get it done.įocus Mode blinds everything out except the sentence or the paragraph you are working on. So we don’t need to face others and ultimately ourselves. When we are about to do something important, we are most likely to procrastinate.
iA Writer allows you to share the draft and publish the final document in different formats. IA Writer uses universally readable plain text and strictly separates between form and content. Ideally, form and content are separated, as it is in HTML and CSS, as each platform has different formatting conditions. In 2018, writing and publishing require a sharable basic format. Things go wrong because of the high complexity of the Docx format. Docx is a widely shared standard, but using a proprietary format, you risk losing formatting, getting into conflicts between different platforms or document versions and losing data. MS Word’s proprietary format requires an app that reads and writes. Today, writing is rarely done by one person or in one program alone. Shouldn’t writing and reading environments follow different design principles, too? Writing needs to create text independent of different layouts. Reading happens in a designed, defined frameset. Writing requires great flexibility to move words and blocks of text around. Writing and reading require a different mindset. And if you are indeed producing a PDF, the reading layout is not necessarily a great layout for writing text. The downside is that there is no final shape in web publishing. The upside is that you see your text in its final shape. In Microsoft Word, you are typing inside the final layout, the letter, the PDF, or the book.
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