#IA WRITER. ARCHIVE#

This is best done on the Mac, but you can certainly complete this step on the iPad. Next, add the folder to your external folders in Ulysses. Inside iCloud Drive, create a folder that will act as your go-between location. Moving Files from Ulysses to iA Writer via iCloudįirst, I used a series of iCloud folders to quickly move years worth of my written work from Ulysses to iA Writer.

#IA WRITER. ARCHIVE#

Here’s how I’ve set up my iA Writer to quickly get started writing, to quickly archive completed work, and to send off sharable work via Working Copy and BitBucket. I haven’t skipped a beat using iA Writer over the last few months. Even iA’s file library - which was long one of its worst features - has stepped up to the plate and met the match of most competing apps. The right-pane previewer is a great help for ensuring your written work looks great in Markdown or HTML. The minimal writing environment eliminates just about every distraction and adds in whatever metadata statistic you’d like. Thanks to a plethora of major updates over the last year or so, iA Writer now finds itself in the driver’s seat on my iPad home screen and has become my de facto writing app for any bit of text longer than 140 characters. iA Writer has been a middle-man app in my writing workflow since I started writing over at Tools & Toys in 2014. I’ve long used iA Writer as my “Markdown preview app,” whereby I drop in photo URLs from WordPress and place the URLs within the text as iA’s great right-pane previewer updates on the spot. One of those surprising results - surprising to me, at least - was iA Writer. 2020 drew the short straw - in so many ways - and I’ve spent the better part of the last three months questioning each app on my home screen. Once every couple years, I find myself doing a deep clean of the apps on my iPhone and iPad.

Ia writer.