iA Writer 6.0.6

iA Writer Pro is a professional writing suite that gives you full control over your notes, drafts and edits.

Unmatched Writing Experience
iA Writer is designed to provide the best digital writing experience: Keep your hands on the keyboard and your mind in the text.

Swipe Right to Library
iA Writer now comes with an integrated library for all your documents. With a swipe to the right you have easy access to all your texts in one place.

Swipe Left to Preview
With synchronized scrolling Preview, iA Writer consciously separates form and content. It optimizes plain text writing while offering stellar formatted export—with world class typography.

Focus Mode and Syntax Control
iA Writer is famous for offering a deeper focus on your text. Its unique tools improve your writing style by honing your concentration: One sentence at a time, or by highlighting different parts of speech.

All Your Documents on All Your Devices
With seamless Dropbox and iCloud sync, iA Writer keeps your documents safe and at hand on whatever device you are using when inspiration strikes.

Features

Integrated document Library
Synchronized scrolling Markdown Preview
Beautiful Preview templates with curated fonts
Focus Mode fades all but the current sentence, for maximum concentration
Convert formatting to Microsoft® Word .docx, and back again
Also export formatting to HTML and beautifully styled PDF
Auto Markdown formats text on-screen
Night Mode
Real-time iCloud and Dropbox sync
Reading Time; plus sentence, word, and character count
Customized for Retina displays
Handoff support
Full screen for total immersion in the text

What’s New:

Version 6.0
Wikilinks

Wikilinks make it easy to connect, browse, and rediscover your writing
A [[wikilink]] is a link from one text file to another
To make a wikilink, just type [[ and the name of the file you would like to link
Autocomplete suggests files from your Library
Open the linked file with ⌘-click, or ⌘⏎
If the file doesn’t exist, it’ll be automatically created and ready to type

Navigation History

Navigation history keeps track of the files you recently opened using wikilinks, Library, or Quick Search
To go back and forward, hold ⌘ and swipe right or left anywhere in the document
Click the history buttons in the title bar
Or press ⌃⌘← and ⌃⌘→

Hashtag Improvements

Hashtags can be now added anywhere in text
Autocomplete suggests hashtags as you type
Consistent styling for hashtags and other links
Show a hashtag in Quick Search with ⌘-click, or ⌘⏎

Autolinks

All web links and email addresses are automatically detected
Open a link in browser or compose a new email with ⌘-click, or ⌘⏎
Control how wikilinks, hashtags, and autolinks are exported in Markdown settings

Content Block Improvements

To add a content block, type / at the beginning of a line and the name of the file you would like to include
Autocomplete suggests files from your Library
A path to a file is no longer required. Filename-only content blocks automatically find the nearest matching file
Open a text content block with ⌘-click, or ⌘⏎
If the content block file doesn’t exist, it’ll be automatically created and ready to type

Metadata

All-new metadata engine enables powerful new features
Provide variables to text content blocks, width and height attributes to image content blocks
Supports Markdown in metadata variables
Define global metadata in Markdown settings

Look and Feel

Completed tasks are faded and crossed-out
All-new highlight colors: yellow, orange, pink, purple, blue, and green
Choose your favorite highlight color and configure completed task appearance in Editor settings

Editor Improvements

Editor automatically inserts closing brackets
Select text and type an opening bracket to wrap selection in matching brackets
Added indent width setting
Changed strikethrough shortcut to ⌥⌘U
Changed highlight shortcut to ⇧⌘U
Changed code shortcut to ⌘J
Added code block command with shortcut ⇧⌘J
Disabled spell checking, autocorrection, autocapitalization, and smart punctuation in code
Set up ⌘E shortcut to use selection for find
Changed shortcut to mark task as completed to ⌥⌘X

Other Improvements

Changed Library shortcut to ⌃⌘S
Task list items are searchable with Smart Folders and Quick Search using [ ] and [x]
Added ability to show and sort by date created in Library
Added fuzzy Library Path matching to Quick Search
Added an option to always show the title bar
Replaced Delete in Library with Move to Trash, hold ⌥ to delete immediately
Stopped asking to keep document changes by default, configurable in Files preferences

Compatibility: OS X 10.11 or later
Homepage https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ia-writer-pro/id775737590