Editorial for iPad review: Text editor ideal for building custom workflows
With so many text editors in the App Store, developers try to differentiate their products by adding unique features, such as Markdown or TextExpander support, PDF exporting, and custom keyboard layouts. I’ve tried an assortment of iOS text editors over the years, and while all of them have some useful and unique features, none of them provide all the features I could want. Editorial 1.0 seeks to solve this problem by allowing users to build missing features themselves.
Before releasing Editorial, Ole Zorn of omz:software developed Pythonista, a Python interpreter that’s designed to build and run Python apps on iOS. Surprisingly powerful, Pythonista can help you build scripts that, for example, control other apps in order to automate repetitive work.
For many people, composing text-oriented content makes up much of this repetitive work. Since Pythonista is clearly not for everyone, Editorial serves as a full-featured text editor that incorporates Pythonista-like programmability to allow users to build custom “workflows” to automate their work. Nonprogrammers can build these workflows without writing a single line of code. (Python coders can still write their own code if they want.)
Editorial works with Dropbox to provide a versioning system so that you can track changes.
If all this “programming,” “workflow,” and “automation” talk is making your eyes cross, don’t worry; Editorial is a well-designed text editor, even if you don’t use all its automation capabilities. Editorial provides lots of options to configure your writing environment exactly the way you want, from supporting both “light” and “dark” modes to supplying a nice variety of fonts and spacing options. It has an integrated spelling checker, plus auto-correction and auto-capitalization functions that you can turn on or off as you please.
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