Now that I’ve been using it for a couple of weeks, I actually like it. The thought, “what did I just waste $5 of my money on,” was pretty prominent in my head. When I bought it, I almost immediately had buyers remorse. It worked, but there were enough minor hassles that I couldn’t quite get over that Pages, to Word, to Wordpress wasn’t quite the way I wanted to work. Unfortunately, the experience with Pages was less than seamless for me. Easy-peasy and data is flowing from iPad to workstation for final editing and publication. Since I already run a Linux development server, and Apache supports WebDAV pretty much out of the box, it was a no brainer to turn WebDAV on and mutually share a folder on both WebDAV (for the iPad) an CIFS for my Windows workstations. The behind the scenes things were great, pages could write out a Word doc file and save it to a WebDAV server. In a way, Pages does a lot of what I wanted in a word processor, well kind of. Working with this train of thought, I first started with Apple’s Pages. H1s become H1s and the website styling gets applied, there’s no serious translation or rewriting involved. Ultimately this translates very nicely to eventual publication on my sites via Wordpress. That is, you define text as a heading 1 and then tell Word to make a heading 1s look how you want them. I like word, in a large way because you style things semantically not visually, even if it doesn’t seem that way. Why am I not using Word for everything you may ask? Well because Microsoft hasn’t released a version of it for the iPad, and more and more I’m working on my iPad–even if the experience is mildly frustrating at the best of times. None of them are really the one stop solution that I want.įor me, the gold standard is MS Word. When it comes to writing I have a love-hate relationship with just about every product I’ve ever used on my iPad.
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