Description
Paragraft is a halfway house between a word processor and plain text, tuned for touch based productivity. It gives you basic control over your formatting with the minimum of fuss. Use it for an easy way to write up notes while on the move *and* share those notes in a neat and tidy format with your clients and colleagues.
Edit your documents using plain text with simple markup for creating headings, bold and italic text, bulleted lists, numbered lists and horizontal lines.
Preview stylings with a quick touch.
Share your rich text documents by email, PDF or print.
Key Features
- create and share rich text emails from your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch
- use simple keyboard shortcuts to apply italic, bold and list formatting
- use swipe left and right gestures to create headings and adjust heading levels or, for lists, to adjust list levels
- use tags to help organise your documents - you can also search documents by name or by contents
- easily adjust size and style of font for editing and, independently, for email / PDF / Print / preview
- import plaintext from other apps such as Mail or Dropbox
- import Markdown formatted documents from other apps such as Mail or Dropbox (but note, not all Markdown formatting is supported on import)
- export plaintext files (with Markdown markup) to other apps such as Dropbox, Pages or PlainText
- choice of smart quotes or straight quotes
- create rich text email signatures
Paragraft: less than a word processor, more than plain text
What's New in Version 0.4
Full text search (in document and document lists); hyperlinks in documents (using Markdown inline link format); (optionally) insert HTML into documents; toggle bold/italic status of selected text; user interface overhauled; lots of small refinements and bug fixes. Full release notes are available at: obliquely.org.uk/blog/paragraft/
Customer Reviews
Reliable, and Just Right for Write'n
Yes, just what I was looking for, a quick and easy way to create RTF documents without unnecessary or complicated features. I sent the author a couple suggestions using the "report a problem" button. Can't wait for further updates. =^)
Reliable Markdown to PDF, Dropbox is good but not automatic
I like Paragraft - it takes Mardown text and outputs beautiful PDF files, complete with page numbers and file names included at the bottom of the page in the print preview. Plus, it lets you toggle back-and-forth between curly quotes and straight quotes. And another very helpful feature is the way it separates each paragraph in your document - using the edit function, you can physically slide your paragraphs around however you like, reordering them as-needed. If you're good with Markdown and somewhat flexible regarding formatting, you could use this to create full-fledged documents without touching MS Word or Pages.
However, Paragraft does not have the best file and sync structure. You still have to manually upload each .txt file to Dropbox individually. This is straightforward, but then you have to redo this if you make edits. What I do is create and edit my documents using WriteUp (another handy Markdown app) and then open them in Dropbox to export to Paragraft. Paragraft then outputs a nice PDF (which WriteUp doesn't do just yet), which I can then upload back to any folder in Dropbox I like.
I have a feeling that Paragraft and WriteUp will both be added some of the features of the other, and that Markdown will gradually be improved to allow more formatting than is currently allowed. (em-dash, anyone??) In the meantime, Paragraft gets the job done nicely - just not quite as automatically as I'd like.
extremely useful
I am an editorial writer who works back and forth between my notes and what Am writing.
I just started using this today. It is very fast and has many useful features. I particularly like the ability to drag paragrahs to reposition them. That is fantastic. Thanks for all the hard work that went into developiong this !!!
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- $0.99
- Category: Productivity
- Updated: Aug 20, 2011
- Version: 0.4
- Size: 1.5 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: Matthew Elton
- © Matthew Elton
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.Requires iOS 4.2 or later.
