Over 800 TidBITS readers responded to our survey of 21 apps, submitting close to 4000 votes. In “ Vote for Your Favorite Mac Word Processor” (10 July 2017), we asked you to rate the Mac word processors that you’ve used. #1683: New M3 chips in updated MacBook Pros and iMac, record Apple Q4 profits on lower revenues, no more 27-inch iMacs.#1684: OS bug fix releases, Finder tag poll results, Messages identity verification, blocking spambots, which Apple services do you use?.#1685: Hidden secrets of the Fn key, Emergency SOS via satellite free access extended, RCS support in Messages, Rogue Amoeba icon evolution.#1686: Please support TidBITS, OS security updates, Apple services poll results, biking with an iPhone.#1687: Feature-rich OS updates, recovering from a crashing bug in Contacts, Zoom for Apple TV, how much do you use widgets?.If you’re interested in finding out when my next book will be released as well as in getting discounts and free short stories, please sign up for my mailing list. (It has also reminded me to start saving all my files in plain text for backup purposes.) If you are interested in a fast, light and formidable Mac plain text editor/outliner, it looks like a good bet. It’s a pleasant work environment and hey its given me something to blog about. I have even been using it for writing notes and essays. I was seduced by the reviews of Folding Text– universally excellent and I wanted to try the program out. It’s a clever idea that would let me work purely in plain text if I wanted to.ĭoes this mean I will be abandoning Scrivener any time soon? Of course not. Folding Text lets me set up checkboxes and timers and other things in a similar manner. I can move the sections around in an outline. I can open up all the sub-text in an outline or hide it. While I am using Folding Text, it will be treated like a header. If I want to have level one header I simply put a hash mark in front of it. You can work with the text but have no control over structure at all.įolding Text, on the other hand, by means of some clever tricks lets me do most of the things I would in Microsoft Word in plain text. The answer is that none of them have the features I want in a word processor. You’re not likely to find yourself having to buy a new version of your old word processor to have to access your old files either.Ī friend of mine quite rightly said, well, Bill, if you want to use plain text, why not just use TextEdit or WordPad or some other plain text editor? Which is a very good question. Stick a plain text file in Dropbox and you can use it most anywhere, anytime. It works everywhere and on everything– computers of every OS, iPhones, Android Phones, you name it. It works with plain text which is pretty much the universal format and likely to remain so for the foreseeable future. Folding Text is yet another word processor albeit of a very specialised sort. You could see this as an example of vendor lock-in via a proprietary format, but I prefer to see it as an example of author stupidity in not saving his work in a universal format.Īll of which is a very long-winded introduction to my review of Folding Text. I had 32000 words of a Kormak novel in the Mellel format and I wanted to get at it, so I spent the money. My old copy of Mellel was for the PowerPC and simply would not run on my new Mac. I found Mellel through David Hewson’s excellent blog and I settled down to use it for around a year, until I found Scrivener which I have been using ever since. At the time, Word on the Mac was more or less unusable for me– it kept slowing down and crashing and Scrivener was not even a blip on my radar. I recently came across a cache of files from way back in 2006 when I used to use Mellel as my word processor of choice– for the record, it is excellent for handling long documents. This is more than just an example of my relentless addiction to acquiring software (honest!). Recently I paid £28 on the Apple app store for a copy of Mellel 3, a word processor I don’t intend to use.
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