Byword
Draft a blog post, write that story or complete a school report wherever you are. Use Markdown to format text with easy keyboard shortcuts, subtle syntax highlighting, word counters with live update, and much more. All your documents, on all your devices. With iCloud and Dropbox, you can create documents in Byword on your Mac and access them on your iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch. And vice versa. You can edit them from anywhere, on any device you use. Byword includes complete Markdown support. Preview your documents in app, export to HTML, PDF, rich text, or publish directly to Medium, WordPress, Blogger, Tumblr and Evernote. The lack of support for rich text is due to technical limitations and limited development resources. We are evaluating the cost/benefit of investing in rich text support of iOS. Meanwhile, we strongly recommend opting for plain text and markdown format for your documents. Macworld has a great article explaining why opting for plain text today is a good idea.
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1Writer
1Writer combines all the basic text editing features you would expect with all the advanced features you will ever need. Use 1Writer to write, research, revise, and share your ideas with maximum efficiency. 1Writer provides a distraction free writing environment. You can create and edit plain text or Markdown files. It does have many features including inline Markdown preview, word count, dark theme, TextExpander support, insert photo, an extra keyboard row, and many more. See the formatted results with inline Markdown preview while you write and a full, rich-text preview when you're done. Pick and choose existing Dropbox or WebDAV folders you want to sync or sync them all. Work offline and your changes will be synced next time you connect to the Internet. It also supports iCloud Drive - start a new document on your Mac and continue editing it in 1Writer, and vice versa. You can send text to 1Writer from Safari and other apps via the Share extension or 1Writer URL scheme.
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Remarkable
With Live Preview you can see your changes as you make them! There is no need to export first to check your syntax. This is accompanied with synchronized scrolling. Remarkable has Github Flavoured Markdown. This has a simple, easy to learn syntax with features like checklists, highlighting, links, images and more!. Remarkable allows you to export your files to PDF and HTML from within the app! The HTML code is even prettified and PDF's have a TOC. You can style your markdown documents however you like! If you dont like the default styles you can use your own! The code you write is highlighted in the Live Preview. This makes Remarkable great for writing software documentation or even taking lecture notes! You can set up Remarkable whatever way you like! You can swap views, hide views and more. Keyboard shortcuts enable maximum productivity! They offer a great way to speed up markdown formatting.
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ActionAlly
Every time you get to your computer, ActionAlly will be there, ready to channel you into your most important work. No more sitting blankly trying to figure out what to work on. No more drifting to Facebook. Now you have an ally that makes sure your attention is being used effectively. From the moment you install ActionAlly, you become the kind of person who effectively plans their day. As you're finishing up for the day, it will appear and ask you to plan tomorrow's most important tasks. You'll clarify not just the what but also the how and why of your tasks. When you're clear on what to do, how to do it and why it matters, suddenly work is a whole lot easier.The remaining time in your session is subtly displayed in the menubar of OSX. ActionAlly can even block your most distracting sites just while in your session. Throughout the day, you can track how many sessions you've completed to clearly measure your effectiveness.
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