md extension and refuses to open the Markdown files in my syncing folder. Unfortunately, as you can see it doesn’t understand the. I usually hide the extensions but turned them on for these screenshots to make a point: PlainText uses the extensions to determine which files it’s willing to open. There are options to use mixed-case titles and to hide the file extensions. I’m usually not a fan of ALL CAPS, but I like it here in the titlebar because it reminds me of the header in a printed LaTeX document. The choice of Georgia as the font is an aesthetic triumph it’s a great screen font, and when combined with the Retina Display on the iPhone 4 it gives a sense of working with a carefully typeset document. I was struck by how sleek and elegant the user interface looks.īy having the titlebar and toolbar both white, PlainText really gives you the sense of working on a sheet of paper. With the account setup out of the way, it’s time to move into PlainText proper. PlainText gets high marks in the “works well with others” category. I have PlainText synced to my Dropbox/Elements folder, so all my synced files 1 are available in both apps. This is a step up in usability from Elements, which creates an “Elements” folder in your Dropbox folder and forces you to use it. You’re asked for your Dropbox credentials-which is pretty standard-and then you’re asked if you want to sync to an existing Dropbox folder. The syncing works quite well, and you get a sense of how smooth and well-thought-out it is when you launch PlainText the first time. PlainText is, in fact, something of a testbed app in the future, all the Hog Bay apps will be moving to Dropbox syncing. It differs from the other Hog Bay offerings, though, in that its cloud syncing is done through Dropbox rather than Jesse’s homegrown SimpleText syncing system. In keeping with these other programs, PlainText is a very simple writing app. PlainText comes from Hog Bay Software, the people-well, person the development seems to be done entirely by Jesse Grosjean-responsible for WriteRoom and TaskPaper. On the other hand, there isn’t a lot to PlainText, so maybe a detailed critique isn’t possible.
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Be aware that although I’ve been using it off and on for several weeks, it’s never been my main iPhone note taker I can’t give it the detailed critique I can give apps like Simplenote and Elements. I mentioned PlainText in passing in my last post, so I thought I’d give it a fuller writeup here. Next post Previous post PlainText for iPhone