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I’ve now spent a few days with Writer Pro on my iPad and it’s feeling more like a puzzle than a tool.
Writer Pro is built to brute-force a certain approach to writing. There are four modes to the app: Note, Write, Edit, and Read. Each of these modes features a different font type and cursor colour, and each mode serves as a different folder for your text. The idea is that these subtle differences in each mode will lead the writer to think about a piece in a different manner. The Note mode features clean variable-width font, Write features the Nitti Light mono-space font that iA Writer was known for, and Edit and Read feature a font that feels more at home in iBooks than in a writing app.
One of the things I enjoy most about trying out different apps is the way they often require me to explore different ways of thinking about a given task. A developer’s philosophy is hewn right…
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