Also, the source is available if you are adventurous enough to compile it yourself. FocusWriter is available for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. Getting out of your way when you write is the stated goal of FocusWriter, but it also offers a few other handy features. Write might be a good choice for the Android user who wants a Ulysses-like text editor that gets out of your way when you write, as long as you don’t need the organizational features. With the very minimal formatting options, any output files should be easy to clean up if they need any clean up at all.

As with any other export, it is good practice to review the output just to make sure it looks how you think it should. Write also offers the ability to share notes as text files, so sending your notes via email with Markdown formatting intact may be a good alternative to HTML export.

There is another method that may be even simpler. Since Word, OpenOffice, and Pages can open HTML files this should not be a big issue if you need to export your notes to Word and so forth. This makes Write a pretty good tool for focused web-bound writing. Write does offer the ability to activate notes as being Markdown instead of Text, much as Ulysses sheets can use MultiMarkdown.Īlso, Write only offers one true export format: HTML. Also, unlike Storyist or Scrivener Write does not offer large-scale text formatting capability or Styles. If you need that kind of organization you may want to look for another tool (I will list a couple of other alternates at the end). Unlike those apps, however, Write doesn’t offer any way to organize notes together into folders or any other method. It also keeps track of documents-called “notes” in Write-individually, with search functions and filtering built in. Like Ulysses, Storyist, Scrivener, and other apps, it has the ability to get out of the way that is, to hide all parts of the interface that might distract a writer, and just put words in the screen where you can type. It is somewhat like Ulysses in operation, with a couple of key differences. Because of this, I want to make sure that anyone with a PC or Android has another option to try to fill the same roles.įirst, let’s look at Write ($1.99), a minimalist app for Android Tablets. As I noted with the Ulysses and Storyist tools, neither are available for PC or Android.

Hello, and welcome back to Writer’s Life! Today’s final installment in this series is a writer’s guide to FocusWriter and Write, two tools available to Android or PC users.

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