Lists of apps I need to check out again because they received an update.Ideas (example: “write a post about your Dropbox workflow”).As Brett Terpstra showed in his amazing collection of iTextEditors, there is no lack of Dropbox-enabled apps on the iPhone and iPad. For me, it’s also about knowing that the text that doesn’t need the “Evernote treatment” can be accessed and edited properly no matter the platform I decide to use. Let David Sparks tell you why plain text equals future-proofing your notes. And because for that kind of articles I can (I have to) switch between different apps and devices, I need an open, portable file format that allows me to work from anywhere. Furthermore, while Evernote has a solid app on the Mac that keeps getting better on each release, its iOS counterparts are unfortunately lacking when it comes to writing, researching, and multitasking so while the “longer, research-based” pieces need to be written in Evernote for Mac, all the other articles and shorter posts I produce are better suited for Dropbox. Retaining ownership of my files is important, and Dropbox makes it extremely easy to have a reliable environment of connected apps and services that access the same files and even keep multiple versions of them if anything goes wrong. When it comes to text notes I like to keep available as a portable file format I own – read: plain text – I use Dropbox. I’ll get to Evernote in the future, but as a general rule, I think the service is simply fantastic if your research goes beyond just text and hyperlinks, but also includes images, documents, or a combination of both.Įvernote is my memory ecosystem. Stuff like this gets built and researched in Evernote this very article is being typed in Writing Kit, connected to Dropbox. I think this kind of division makes me write better in that these articles require different, separate workflows, and thus different appsįor the purpose of this article, I won’t get into the details and reasons that keep me using Evernote as a central part of my daily workflow I’d just like to express, again, how I see the Dropbox-based writing and Evernote as two fundamentally separate entities. The real difference, however, that I made in my writing habits recently is that I try to use Evernote for “research” articles like longer software reviews and things like this, while keeping the more “standard” posts or editorials in Dropbox. When I’m not using my Mac - most of the time these days - I like to write in Evernote for iPad, though I recognize the app is not perfect and could use a lot of text related improvements. My writing ecosystem is powered by Dropbox.Īs I have written on several occasions in the past few months, I also spend a lot of time writing and researching in Evernote. In my workflow, there is a distinction between apps “for writing” and tools for quick “note-taking”, but in order to minimize the effort required to keep everything in sync and tied together, I set out to make sure the differences of such tasks could coexist within a single ecosystem. I like iA Writer and Byword, but I’m saving that kind of apps for another article. I think this difference is blurring with time, but there are still several apps that are clearly focused on distraction-free, long-form writing, like iA Writer and Byword, whereas the ones I tried for this article belong to the note-taking/Markdown/Dropbox generation of text editors. Two months ago, I noted how there seemed to be a distinction between text editors focused on long-form writing, and the ones stemming from a note-taking approach. Ever since I wrote about my new year’s resolutions to work smarter using better tools, compared my favorite iOS text editors, and shared some of my workflow techniques on Macdrifter, I thought it would be appropriate to share a bit more about the activity that takes up 80% of my work time: writing.Īs I wrote in my comparison of iOS text editors:
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