The Editorial iOS App and the Logos iOS App
Editorial and the Logos iOS app
I don't know if anybody here has seen the new app Editorial. It's only been on the App Market since the 15th, but its been in serious development since early fall of last year.
If you know anything about Markdown, this is what it is, but do not get the idea it's just another markdown app. It's far more than that and it becomes obvious within minutes of use.
While I think this app is exactly what it's billed to be, an editor that will make your iPad into a laptop replacement for content creation, sort of like a Swiss Army Knife for editing content, it also has a strong proclivity to extensibility, meaning you can take very lite Python and write “workflow” extensions that will take the app thousands of miles further down the road than the likes of Drafts, which I think is a remarkable app, in and of itself.
The request I have for the fine users and programmers that inhabit this forum, is after you take a look, tell me what you see for Logos and Editorial.
Some functions which I think are common sense, even for the most sophomoric of us in the crowd are:
- The Browser integrated into the app is redonkulas.
- The ability to use the icons on the top of the keys like raking your finger side to side to get the cursors here you want it iscrucially cool.
- On a numbered list, such as the one I am now typing, it is auto loading the asterisk on the next line.
- Also TextExpander integration is spot on!
It's biggest limitation right now is the workflows which are, ironically it's greatest asset. But, for guys like me, it's a sure handicap. I think what's going to happen is a whole community of Pythonistas will grow a garden for this app! That's my hope, anyway.
But, my greatest hope, more than an Evernote workflow, is a Logos workflow.
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Wilson Hines