WriteRoom
Posted October 4th, 2009 by admin No Comments »
iPhone App Review Yes, the iPhone has its Notes app, but with its notepad-lookalike graphics and mock handwriting font – which you can’t easily change – it was always more a showcase for the Apple graphic design team’s talents than a tool you’d want to use.
It has one advantage, though: it’s just about text. It’s not concerned with presentation or formatting, tables of contents or making sure your boss doesn’t realise you can’t spell – it’s just for jotting.
WriteRoom: simple text editing with no distracting UI
WriteRoom attempts to right Apple‘s note-writing wrongs by giving writers a more utilitarian user interface that allows you to focus entirely on what you’re writing not what it’s being written on, or how.
Tap a document’s name to open it, or hit the + button to create a new file, and you get a plain page ready for writing. No lines, no double-ruled margin, no artful torn-out-page-stubs graphic. Use the iPhone’s ‘part two fingers’ gesture and even what little UI there is vanishes to leave you with a literally blank page. Read the rest of this entry »
