

*NOTE: I really love WriteRoom and OmmWriter for Mac. That, of course, is a topic for another time. I’m looking at Editorial next, but you can only throw down so much bank before you realize there should be a way to get a “free 30-day trial” before being required to buy an app in Apple App Store. I’ve tried Pages, Plain Text, Plainnote, iA Writer, TextTastic, WriteRoom*, and others. Overall, though, I am really happy with Writing Kit.
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Then inside my Writing Kit doc, be able to open a Zotero Client in a side-tray (Blogsy style), search for a find a reference, insert the quoted text, insert the note I made about the text, and maintain a markdown link to the Zotero record so that it can be compiled into an inline reference and Bibliography section when I’m ready to compile the document for “print” (usually a blog post or PDF white-paper).įor writing sections and document compilation - I’ll just say, I want to mimic a watered down version of the functionality of Scrivener for Mac and leave it at that. What I would like is to open the integrated browser for researching a topic, highlight text in web pages or pdfs, send the bibliographic information along with the captured text to Zotero, be prompted for a description and note about the reference, AND capture the web reference in a specified Evernote note. What I want is to be able to open an Evernote window in a side-tray ( Blogsy style), high-light a section of text and insert the text into my Writing Kit document with the link to where that text came from automatically generated for me.įor Zotero - This would be the holy-grail of iPad functionality. It is a pain in the neck and still doesn’t give me what I want.

Then I paste the link into my document using Writing Kit’s Markup or Insert Link tool. The work-arounds that I have used so far have been as follows:įor Evernote references - I either hot-swap to Evernote for iPad and use the “share link” feature to grab a reference to a specific note, or using the browser integrated into Writing Kit to navigate to Evernote’s web client to grab the link to an Evernote entry.

All-in-all, it is as close as I’ve came to having the perfect on-the-go, in-the-moment everywhere writing tool. It supports Markdown, Dropbox sync, has an integrated Browser with DuckDuckGo as one of the integrated search engines. I’ve started using Writing Kit for writing on the iPad a lot more often these days.
