I haven't messed around with URL actions yet, but the Dropbox actions are really where I get my work done. There's no start or splash screen - the app seems to be designed to do one thing very effiecently, and that's capture quick text when you want to the fastest way possible and send it to exactly where you want it. The app opens ready to write - cursor blinking and keyboard ready. The reason for this post was not to tell you about the benefits of plain text, but to tell you how plain text and a little app called Drafts has changes my entire youth minister workflow.ĭrafts is a little app that does a lot of stuff, and it's highly customizable. If you really need to prettify something, a Word Processor should be your app of choice. Granted, you are limited in formatting with plain text, and that's why they invented Markdown. Or I could use this text in MS Word 2024 if I want. I could literally take this text right now and put it on an old 1982 green-screened NCR if I wanted to. Plain text is powerful because computers have been using it since their inception.
#Textastic osx mac
If I would have originally written this article in a text editor on my Mac (and by the way, if you have a Mac, everyone has a text editor - it's called TextEdit - and Wordpad for Windows) all I would have had to do was copy and paste the text instead of rewriting the post like I am now. This post got summarily deleted because of my stupidity (and maybe a bug in the Squarespace iPad app). For example - I wrote this original post on the Squarespace internet site, and I had no backup. I can take plain text and put it anywhere, and I can then format that text how I want it. But I store everything in plain text, and I'll briefly tell you why.īecause plain text is future-proof. As I type this now, I'm using Textastic on the Mac. I make lists, and lists of lists for planning projects.Īs I am an uber-nerd, I use plain text for pretty much everything. They're both fantastic and have changed my Youth Minister workflow for the better.Īs a youth minister, I take lots of notes. If you're not using either, you should give them a try.
#Textastic osx update
Overall, a great update for these two apps. Tab II houses all my searching actions, Tab III all my email and messaging, and Tab IV is for Evernote actions. For example, all actions in Tab I I have all my Dropbox actions. You can arrange how you want them in Settings. Very simple interface - when I hit the share button, I now have little Roman numbered tabs for my task groups. Viola, they're all there, safe and sound. I just back up the actions on my iPhone, then go to my iPad and Restore from Actions Backup over there.
For instance, I have lots of different lists that I append to, and I don't want to have to manually add those on my iPad.
#Textastic osx manual
The two most notable additions to this already-wonderful do-anything text app are the addition of Actions Backup and tabbed tasks.Īctions Backup is exactly what it says it is - it adds the ability to make a manual backup of all your actions so you can restore them to any other device running Drafts. The second is an update to Drafts, now version 3.0.
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