iA Writer 6.0.6

iA Writer Pro is a professional writing suite that gives you full control over your notes, drafts and edits.

Unmatched Writing Experience
iA Writer is designed to provide the best digital writing experience: Keep your hands on the keyboard and your mind in the text.

Swipe Right to Library
iA Writer now comes with an integrated library for all your documents. With a swipe to the right you have easy access to all your texts in one place.

Swipe Left to Preview
With synchronized scrolling Preview, iA Writer consciously separates form and content. It optimizes plain text writing while offering stellar formatted export—with world class typography.

Focus Mode and Syntax Control
iA Writer is famous for offering a deeper focus on your text. Its unique tools improve your writing style by honing your concentration: One sentence at a time, or by highlighting different parts of speech.

All Your Documents on All Your Devices
With seamless Dropbox and iCloud sync, iA Writer keeps your documents safe and at hand on whatever device you are using when inspiration strikes.

Features

• Integrated document Library
• Synchronized scrolling Markdown Preview
• Beautiful Preview templates with curated fonts
• Focus Mode fades all but the current sentence, for maximum concentration
• Convert formatting to Microsoft® Word .docx, and back again
• Also export formatting to HTML and beautifully styled PDF
• Auto Markdown formats text on-screen
• Night Mode
• Real-time iCloud and Dropbox sync
• Reading Time; plus sentence, word, and character count
• Customized for Retina displays
• Handoff support
• Full screen for total immersion in the text

What’s New:

Version 6.0
Wikilinks

• Wikilinks make it easy to connect, browse, and rediscover your writing
• A [[wikilink]] is a link from one text file to another
• To make a wikilink, just type [[ and the name of the file you would like to link
• Autocomplete suggests files from your Library
• Open the linked file with ⌘-click, or ⌘⏎
• If the file doesn’t exist, it’ll be automatically created and ready to type

Navigation History

• Navigation history keeps track of the files you recently opened using wikilinks, Library, or Quick Search
• To go back and forward, hold ⌘ and swipe right or left anywhere in the document
• Click the history buttons in the title bar
• Or press ⌃⌘← and ⌃⌘→

Hashtag Improvements

• Hashtags can be now added anywhere in text
• Autocomplete suggests hashtags as you type
• Consistent styling for hashtags and other links
• Show a hashtag in Quick Search with ⌘-click, or ⌘⏎

Autolinks

• All web links and email addresses are automatically detected
• Open a link in browser or compose a new email with ⌘-click, or ⌘⏎
• Control how wikilinks, hashtags, and autolinks are exported in Markdown settings

Content Block Improvements

• To add a content block, type / at the beginning of a line and the name of the file you would like to include
• Autocomplete suggests files from your Library
• A path to a file is no longer required. Filename-only content blocks automatically find the nearest matching file
• Open a text content block with ⌘-click, or ⌘⏎
• If the content block file doesn’t exist, it’ll be automatically created and ready to type

Metadata

• All-new metadata engine enables powerful new features
• Provide variables to text content blocks, width and height attributes to image content blocks
• Supports Markdown in metadata variables
• Define global metadata in Markdown settings

Look and Feel

• Completed tasks are faded and crossed-out
• All-new highlight colors: yellow, orange, pink, purple, blue, and green
• Choose your favorite highlight color and configure completed task appearance in Editor settings

Editor Improvements

• Editor automatically inserts closing brackets
• Select text and type an opening bracket to wrap selection in matching brackets
• Added indent width setting
• Changed strikethrough shortcut to ⌥⌘U
• Changed highlight shortcut to ⇧⌘U
• Changed code shortcut to ⌘J
• Added code block command with shortcut ⇧⌘J
• Disabled spell checking, autocorrection, autocapitalization, and smart punctuation in code
• Set up ⌘E shortcut to use selection for find
• Changed shortcut to mark task as completed to ⌥⌘X

Other Improvements

• Changed Library shortcut to ⌃⌘S
• Task list items are searchable with Smart Folders and Quick Search using [ ] and [x]
• Added ability to show and sort by date created in Library
• Added fuzzy Library Path matching to Quick Search
• Added an option to always show the title bar
• Replaced Delete in Library with Move to Trash, hold ⌥ to delete immediately
• Stopped asking to keep document changes by default, configurable in Files preferences

Compatibility: OS X 10.11 or later
Homepage https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ia-writer-pro/id775737590

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