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The different highlight colors are a whimsical addition that make it obvious which mode you’re in and add a little fun to the app. The typeface change in the different modes is nifty - I happen to like reading in serif typefaces even though I write exclusively in monospaced typefaces, so that’s perfect for me. The final Read mode is read-only, so everything will look the same as in Edit mode, only this time you can’t edit anything - and, yes, when you switch to Read mode, your document will be moved to the Read folder in iCloud. Slide to Edit, and the typeface and highlight color will once again change, and your document will move to an Edit folder. As you’re writing, you can slide the slider in the top right to Write mode, and the interface will switch to the familiar typeface and highlight color from the original iA Writer - and, your document will be moved to a new Write folder in iCloud. When you start a new document, or open an existing text file from your Mac, it’ll open in the Note mode and be saved in a Note folder in iCloud.

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To accommodate that workflow, Writer Pro includes four modes - note, write, edit, and read - each with its own typeface - Nitti Grotesk, Nitti, and Tiempos for the latter two, respectively - and text highlight and cursor color - green, blue, pink, and grey. The core idea behind Writer Pro, as explained in their introductory blog post, is that you start writing with random notes, later combine and expand them into your first draft, and finally tweak and edit your prose before publishing it.

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It seemed a no-brainer upgrade to the original. It promised 2 new typefaces - the sans-serif Nitti Grotesk and the serif Tiempos from Klim Type Foundry - along with new note/write/edit modes and a syntax highlighting, in the clean interface you’d expect from iA Writer. So, when the Information Architects team released Writer Pro, I bought it without even thinking. IA Writer was the one app I used for all my writing for the longest time - and even after switching to Ulysses III for its great library management, search, and more, I’d still use iA Writer to quickly edit individual plan text documents. Its clean design influenced our entire modern generation of writing apps. And it was perfect - the closest thing to a digital piece of paper. And if you really wanted to focus, there was a focus mode that’d dim out everything except the sentence you were currently editing.

Open a plain text document, and it’d be the same - just your words, in an easily readable font size, perfect for quick edits or simple reading. You’d open a new document, and all you’d see was a completely blank off-white window with a blinking iOS-style blue cursor waiting for you to write. It had no settings, no buttons, and only a few keyboard shortcuts beyond the default OS X shortcuts for text editing.

IA Writer’s limitations were its strengths. It was the one app I used for all of my writing, the place where all of my articles started and stayed until they were edited and published. I’d fallen in love with its iPad counterpart, complete with its sparse white interface, lack of settings and features, and Nitti Light typeface.

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My first purchase on the Mac App Store was iA Writer, at its original $17.99 price. The Brilliance and Disappointment of Writer Pro The Brilliance and Disappointment of Writer Pro | Techinch tech, simplified.