IA Writer 4

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The text embeds/includes are really nice. Makes composing longer text much easier! I've been eyeing iA Writer for a while; anyone here use it? What do you like most/least about it?

PS: The only thing this introduces is that we're just one tiny step away from raw files, since these are iA-specific syntax. Not complicated, of course, you'd just need to include all the embedded files too. But to recreate the main file outside of iA, it would require at least some processing (copy/paste but still).

What do you use IA Writer for? I can't figure out why we should use it instead of a generic text editor by looking at the screenshots.

I've been using it for about a year. It's pretty good. My writing is a lot better. Favourite feature is syntax highlighting — I get it to highlight adverbs so I can remove them.

When navigating long texts it starts to get a bit unwieldy — I guess this is been seen to in v4, but I haven't tested it out.

re your PS — you can export your doc (as markdown, html, word, + PDF). I've just tested iA 4 out — if you export a doc with those embedded files they're included. You can also share drafts to WP and Medium.

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