Google Docs automatically generates a navigation bar on the left, based on all of your chapter titles and sub-headings. You cannot see what you are working on, and if you scroll to that point in the preview panel, you lose your place where you are writing. Therefore the text and preview panel are always out of sync. As I scroll down one, the other one scrolls, but at a slightly different speed. This is one of the most annoying features: the text panel and the preview panel are not properly synced. The only way to do it is to upload it to the web, or use a full file path, such as file:///Users/me/Documents/Book/images/example.jpg. So I could just drop an image into the directory and say image 5 is “example.jpg”. Markdown requires this, but I would have expected URI support. You can embed images in your articles, but you have to give them a URL. You can enable typewriter mode so the current line is always centred on the screen, though this feels a bit like a gimmick so far. You get a simple interface that you can take full screen to remove all distractions, and the layout and style are well thought out. The idea behind iA Writer is to allow you to concentrate on the words. IA Writer handles these large files fine, but the rest is a mixed bag. Google Docs works great, but as you start getting up to 50,000+ plus it starts to really struggle. The big advantage for me, over Google Docs, is that it can handle large files. It uses the Markdown syntax, so instead of a WYSIWYG editor, you get text on one side, that you have to use markup in, and a preview pane on the other. IA Writer is very different in that it is a pure text editor. It has all the features you would expect from a word processor and automatically generates a navigation structure on the left hand side so you can quickly jump around the document. Previously I would use Google Docs, which has been very good. Recently I trialled using iA Writer as my word processor of choice for writing.
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