Now with more distraction!

This product is far too pricey to justify being promoted as a do-all writing app. It’s for technical writing and blogging, mainly.

The claims of being “distraction free” are disjointed from the reality of the experience. In their own marketing screenshots there is a paragraph littered with hashtags, text in a rainbow of different colors and a little box that says [IMG]. Those elements do not enhance focus in the slightest. Those elements are like clarity roadblocks when re-reading one’s work. I don’t want to mentally parse that visual garbage, as if I’m reading a Twitter feed, while trying to keep myself in a creative zone.

Reinventing paradigms and terminology under the guise of “innovation” might be ok for an app that costs $4.99; but this app costs ten times that much. (“Sheets”? “Inbox”? …Why do I need to relearn this stuff just to write?)

As I’ve recently discovered, Scrivener is the tool of choice if you’re trying to do creative writing, fiction, essays and the like. (Look at the reviews if you don’t believe me —Scrivener out-ranked Ulysses in a matter of weeks. No contest. )

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