Byword for iOS devices has been recently released as well. For bloggers or Web page editors Byword offers a possibility to copy HTML to Clipboard, which is very convenient. RTF, Word, or HTML format or simply copy and paste it into a document or email. After finishing my writings I export the text into. I really like Byword’s ability to complete brackets (of all shapes) and quotation marks. I normally use Markdown although I am not very good at it (and you don’t need to know what it is to use Byword). As soon as I start I go into its Fullscreen mode (⌘-Enter) and type away. Byword is extremely simple and well-designed. In the last several months, I have been using Byword for writing all my short texts. In addition, even on MacBook Air starting (and closing) Scrivener is a pretty slow business. For example, I used to keep three separate Scrivener projects: for research, teaching and administrative texts, but it quickly became confusing, because I could not decide or remember whether a particular text is for research or for teaching. Starting a separate Scrivener project for each small text is impractical and distracting.
#Byword vs. write how to#
Scrivener is made for organizing texts, but all the choices it gives become a problem when you don’t want to think how to organize your files, you just want to write and send them away. In addition, you have to make a decision of how to organize your short disconnected writings.
It takes time to open and its many bells and whistles easily distract your attention. I used to prepare such texts in Scrivener, but I found it far too complicated for simple one-piece texts. I do such writing in Byword, a beautiful Mac app which takes plain-text writing to an entirely new level. This is longer and more complicated than an occasional note but much simpler and shorter than, say, a full-length article. I often need to write a piece of text between 2 words: an abstract of a talk, a blog post or an administrative memo.
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