What's new in iA Writer 7.1.2
Apr 29, 2024
- This update fixes a few small bugs.
New in iA Writer 7.1 (Mar 5, 2024)
- Major upgrade for iA Writer’s integration with Shortcuts
- 18 new actions to open, create, edit, and organize files
- This feature requires macOS 13 Ventura
- We’ve prepared a few practical shortcuts to show what’s possible, and to inspire you to create your own
- Open:
- Open New: Opens a new note, ready to be saved to your Inbox folder as soon as you type.
- Add Diary Entry: Adds an entry to your Diary folder with the current date and time.
- Take Meeting Notes: Creates meeting notes document for your upcoming calendar event.
- Open Clipboard: Opens a new file with clipboard contents converted to Markdown.
- Save:
- Dictate Text: Saves dictated text to your Inbox folder.
- Dictate To-Do: Saves dictated text to your To-Do file.
- Read Later: Saves a web article to your Read Later folder.
- Shazam: Shazam a song and save it to your Inbox folder.
- Current File:
- Listen: Turns current file into audio.
- Copy Link: Copies a link that can be used to open current file from other apps.
- Translate: Translates a copy of the current file.
- Organize:
- Duplicate Template: Duplicates a template file or folder and adds it to favorites.
- Search: Opens Quick Search with the provided query.
- Edit With ChatGPT:
- Writing Assistant: Use ChatGPT as a conversation partner to improve your text.
- Other Improvements:
- Added top author percentage to stats
- Adjusted insert date actions to use system language
New in iA Writer 7.0.6 (Jan 26, 2024)
- This update fixes a few small bugs.
New in iA Writer 7.0.5 (Dec 22, 2023)
- This update fixes a few small bugs.
New in iA Writer 7.0.4 (Dec 15, 2023)
- This update fixes a few small bugs.
New in iA Writer 7.0.3 (Dec 8, 2023)
- This update fixes a few small bugs.
New in iA Writer 7.0 (Dec 4, 2023)
- Authorship:
- Edits made by AI and other artificial tools are dimmed
- Hand-typed text is always shown in full contrast, making it stand out clearly from dimmed, AI-edited text
- Edits made by other humans are underlined
- Paste menu detects conversations copied from ChatGPT, and offers to automatically mark authorship for your questions and ChatGPT’s answers
- Mark As menu makes it easy to mark authorship of selected text
- Paste As menu pastes text and marks authorship at the same time
- Paste Edits From menu automatically detects changes between the selected text and the pasted text, and attributes the changes to the author you choose
- Authorship annotations are saved at the end of files. Hidden when editing in iA Writer, and visible in other apps
New in iA Writer 6.0.13 (Sep 28, 2023)
- This update fixes a few small bugs.
New in iA Writer 6.0.12 (Sep 22, 2023)
- This update fixes a few small bugs.
New in iA Writer 6.0.11 (Jun 29, 2023)
- This update fixes a few small bugs.
New in iA Writer 6.0.10 (May 18, 2023)
- 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
New in iA Writer 6.0.8 (Apr 21, 2023)
- This update fixes a few small bugs.
New in iA Writer 6.0.7 (Mar 27, 2023)
- This update fixes a few small bugs.
New in iA Writer 6.0.6 (Jan 28, 2023)
- This update fixes a few small bugs.
New in iA Writer 6.0.4 (Sep 27, 2022)
- This update fixes a few small bugs.
New in iA Writer 6.0.3 (Sep 4, 2022)
- This update fixes a few small bugs.
New in iA Writer 6.0 (Jun 16, 2022)
- 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
New in iA Writer 5.6.16 (Oct 3, 2021)
- This update fixes a few small bugs.
New in iA Writer 5.6.15 (Sep 27, 2021)
- This update fixes a few small bugs.
New in iA Writer 5.6.14 (Sep 24, 2021)
- This update fixes a few small bugs.
New in iA Writer 5.6.13 (Aug 9, 2021)
- This update fixes a few small bugs.
New in iA Writer 5.6.12 (Jul 19, 2021)
- This update fixes a few small bugs.
New in iA Writer 5.6.11 (May 7, 2021)
- This update fixes a few small bugs.
New in iA Writer 5.6.10 (Mar 24, 2021)
- Style Check:
- Improve your writing by getting rid of fillers, clichés, and redundancies
- They’re automatically dimmed and crossed-out as you type
- Easy to delete: double-click to select the whole phrase
- Private: all processing is done on your device
- Fast: optimized to work in real-time
- Enable in Focus menu or with Option+Shift+Command+D
- Built-in patterns for English, French, German
- Add your own patterns in Editor settings
- Use the ? button when editing custom patterns to learn how to make them better by providing context, exceptions, and using regular expressions
- Other Improvements:
- Markdown files open up to 350 times faster
- More responsive when editing large files
- Editor correctly handles inline code that contains backticks
New in iA Writer 5.6.9 (Mar 9, 2021)
- This update fixes a few small bugs.
New in iA Writer 5.6.8 (Jan 13, 2021)
- This update fixes a few small bugs.
New in iA Writer 5.6.7 (Dec 23, 2020)
- This update fixes a few small bugs.
New in iA Writer 5.6.6 (Dec 7, 2020)
- This update fixes a few small bugs.
New in iA Writer 5.6.5 (Nov 14, 2020)
- This update fixes a few small bugs.
New in iA Writer 5.6.3 (Oct 22, 2020)
- This update fixes a few small bugs.
New in iA Writer 5.6.2 (Oct 1, 2020)
- Style Check:
- Improve your writing by getting rid of fillers, clichés, and redundancies
- They’re automatically dimmed and crossed-out as you type
- Easy to delete: double-click to select the whole phrase
- Private: all processing is done on your device
- Fast: optimized to work in real-time
- Enable in Focus menu or with Option+Shift+Command+D
- Built-in patterns for English, French, German
- Add your own patterns in Editor settings
- Use the ? button when editing custom patterns to learn how to make them better by providing context, exceptions, and using regular expressions
- Other Improvements:
- Markdown files open up to 350 times faster
- More responsive when editing large files
- Editor correctly handles inline code that contains backticks
New in iA Writer 5.6.1 (Aug 6, 2020)
- This update fixes a few small bugs.
New in iA Writer 5.6 (Jul 13, 2020)
- Style Check:
- Improve your writing by getting rid of fillers, clichés, and redundancies
- They’re automatically dimmed and crossed-out as you type
- Easy to delete: double-click to select the whole phrase
- Private: all processing is done on your device
- Fast: optimized to work in real-time
- Enable in Focus menu or with Option+Shift+Command+D
- Built-in patterns for English, French, German
- Add your own patterns in Editor settings
- Use the ? button when editing custom patterns to learn how to make them better by providing context, exceptions, and using regular expressions
- Other Improvements:
- Markdown files open up to 350 times faster
- More responsive when editing large files
- Editor correctly handles inline code that contains backticks
New in iA Writer 5.5.4 (Jun 15, 2020)
- This update fixes a few small bugs.
New in iA Writer 5.5.3 (Jun 9, 2020)
- PDF Preview:
- PDF preview makes it easy to prepare files for printing and export
- Automatically refreshes as you edit the text
- Choose to fit page or fit width from contextual menu
- Publishing Improvements:
- Publish directly to self-hosted WordPress.org sites
- WordPress accounts can be configured to upload Markdown
- Micropub support for Micro.blog and other IndieWeb tools
- Add multiple accounts from each service
- Reorder and rename accounts
- Editing Improvements:
- Surround text with two equals signs to ==highlight==
- Option Command = toggles highlighted text
- Option Command - toggles strikethrough
- Option Command ` toggles inline code
- Other Improvements:
- Added ability to hide items from stats toolbar
- Character count without spaces
- Hold Option when in Library contextual menu to delete folders and files without a confirmation
- Improved support for increase contrast accessibility option
- KaTeX gdef now works as expected
- Lists can begin immediately after a paragraph, an empty line between them is no longer required
New in iA Writer 5.5.2 (Jun 3, 2020)
- This update fixes a few small bugs.
New in iA Writer 5.5.1 (May 21, 2020)
- This update fixes a few small bugs.
New in iA Writer 5.5 (May 14, 2020)
- PDF Preview:
- PDF preview makes it easy to prepare files for printing and export
- Automatically refreshes as you edit the text
- Choose to fit page or fit width from contextual menu
- Publishing Improvements:
- Publish directly to self-hosted WordPress.org sites
- WordPress accounts can be configured to upload Markdown
- Micropub support for Micro.blog and other IndieWeb tools
- Add multiple accounts from each service
- Reorder and rename accounts
- Editing Improvements:
- Surround text with two equals signs to ==highlight==
- Option Command = toggles highlighted text
- Option Command - toggles strikethrough
- Option Command ` toggles inline code
- Other Improvements:
- Added ability to hide items from stats toolbar
- Character count without spaces
- Hold Option when in Library contextual menu to delete folders and files without a confirmation
- Improved support for increase contrast accessibility option
- KaTeX gdef now works as expected
- Lists can begin immediately after a paragraph, an empty line between them is no longer required
New in iA Writer 5.4.5 (Mar 17, 2020)
- This update fixes a few small bugs.
New in iA Writer 5.4.4 (Feb 23, 2020)
- This update fixes a few small bugs.
New in iA Writer 5.4 (Dec 27, 2019)
- Export Improvements:
- Share, export, publish, print, and copy directly from context menu in Library
- Added Copy Markdown action (includes Content Blocks)
- Share any file to other apps
- Word export keeps headings on the same page as the following paragraph
- Other Improvements:
- Added icons for preferences panes
- Fixed an issue where key commands for window switching were not working with some keyboard layouts
- Fixed an issue where new windows caused existing partially offscreen windows to move
- Excluded node_modules from indexing
- Fixed an issue where some Smart Folders with multiple search rules did not work
- Improved internal link detection for automatic heading identifiers
New in iA Writer 5.3.2 (Oct 30, 2019)
- Updated File Keyboard Shortcuts:
- Simpler and consistent with iOS and iPadOS
- Command+N creates a new file in current window
- Shift+Command+N creates a new file in a new window
- Return opens a Quick Search result in current window
- Shift+Return opens a Quick Search result in a new window
- Content Blocks with Relative Paths:
- /Note.txt` will include a file from the parent folder
- Handoff Improvements:
- Handoff now works when both devices have a Library Location with the same name
- Files are handed off using Library paths: `/Locations/GitHub/Readme.md`
- Requires iA Writer 5.3 on both devices
- Other Improvements
- Links to local images are now converted as file URLs
- Fixed link import from Word
- Fixed gif export to Word
- Changed `write` URL command with `mode=append` to create a file if it doesn’t exist
- App activates for new documents created using Dock menu
- Double-click Smart Folders in Organizer to edit rules (as in Mail)
New in iA Writer 5.2.8 (Aug 19, 2019)
- This update fixes a few small bugs and improves compatibility upcoming system updates.
New in iA Writer 5.2.7 (May 31, 2019)
- This update fixes a few small bugs.
New in iA Writer 5.2.6 (Mar 18, 2019)
- This update adds sharing to Ghost and fixes a few small bugs.
New in iA Writer 5.2.5 (Mar 15, 2019)
- This update adds sharing to Ghost and fixes a few small bugs.
New in iA Writer 5.2.4 (Mar 11, 2019)
- This update fixes a few small bugs
New in iA Writer 5.2.3 (Feb 28, 2019)
- A Typographic Christmas:
- Over 1,000 optical variations seamlessly adapt to provide the best writing experience in any environment
- 14 text sizes in Editor and Preview
- Many Chinese, Japanese, and Korean typography improvements, including emphasis dots
- Bold, italic, and strikethrough commands are much more reliable and work inside words
- High quality math equation typesetting in Preview using KaTeX
- New typeface in three flavors:
- Mono: Single character width, the classic
- Duo: Two widths, freeing M and W
- Quattro: Four widths, for a cleaner text image
- Library Locations:
- Now support Desktop & Documents in iCloud
- Can be added from anywhere in iCloud Drive
- Fully-Featured Export to Microsoft Word:
- Rebuilt from the ground up
- Compatible with Microsoft Word 2007 or newer, Apple Pages, and Google Docs
- Supports local images, footnotes, citations, page breaks, tables, math, headings, unordered lists, ordered lists, task lists, definition lists, blockquotes, bold, italic, CJK emphasis, strikethrough, superscript, subscript, links, horizontal rules, code
- Other Improvements:
- Added visible filename when switching between tabs with hidden title bar
- Copy URL command to open files from menu in Library
- Command-Click links in Editor
- Use - to exclude words from searches: -microsoft word
- Inline code command
- Typing suggestions can be enabled in Touch Bar
- Korean and Russian localizations
- Added help articles
- Better hashtag detection
New in iA Writer 5.2.2 (Feb 8, 2019)
- A Typographic Christmas:
- New typeface in three flavors
- Mono: Single character width, the classic
- Duo: Two widths, freeing M and W
- Quattro: Four widths, for a cleaner text image
- Over 1,000 optical variations seamlessly adapt to provide the best writing experience in any environment
- 14 text sizes in Editor and Preview
- Many Chinese, Japanese, and Korean typography improvements, including emphasis dots
- Bold, italic, and strikethrough commands are much more reliable and work inside words
- High quality math equation typesetting in Preview using KaTeX
- Library Locations:
- Now support Desktop & Documents in iCloud
- Can be added from anywhere in iCloud Drive
- Fully-Featured Export to Microsoft Word:
- Rebuilt from the ground up
- Compatible with Microsoft Word 2007 or newer, Apple Pages, and Google Docs
- Supports local images, footnotes, citations, page breaks, tables, math, headings, unordered lists, ordered lists, task lists, definition lists, blockquotes, bold, italic, CJK emphasis, strikethrough, superscript, subscript, links, horizontal rules, code
- Other Improvements:
- Added visible filename when switching between tabs with hidden title bar
- Copy URL command to open files from menu in Library
- Command-Click links in Editor
- Use - to exclude words from searches: -microsoft word
- Inline code command
- Typing suggestions can be enabled in Touch Bar
- Korean and Russian localizations
- Added help articles
- Better hashtag detection
New in iA Writer 5.2.1 (Dec 24, 2018)
- A Typographic Christmas:
- 14 text sizes in Editor and Preview
- Many Chinese, Japanese, and Korean typography improvements, including emphasis dots
- Bold, italic, and strikethrough commands are much more reliable and work inside words
- High quality math equation typesetting in Preview using KaTeX
- New typeface in three flavors:
- Mono: Single character width, the classic
- Duo: Two widths, freeing M and W
- Quattro: Four widths, for a cleaner text image
- Other Improvements:
- Better hashtag detection
New in iA Writer 5.2 (Dec 21, 2018)
- A Typographic Christmas:
- Over 1,000 optical variations seamlessly adapt to provide the best writing experience in any environment
- 12 text sizes in Editor and Preview
- Many Chinese, Japanese, and Korean typography improvements, including emphasis dots
- Bold, italic, and strikethrough commands are much more reliable and work inside words
- High quality math equation typesetting in Preview using KaTeX
- New typeface in three flavors
- Mono: Single character width, the classic
- Duo: Two widths, freeing M and W
- Quattro: Four widths, for a cleaner text image
- Library Locations:
- Now support Desktop & Documents in iCloud
- Can be added from anywhere in iCloud Drive
- Fully-Featured Export to Microsoft Word:
- Rebuilt from the ground up
- Compatible with Microsoft Word 2007 or newer, Apple Pages, and Google Docs
- Supports local images, footnotes, citations, page breaks, tables, math, headings, unordered lists, ordered lists, task lists, definition lists, blockquotes, bold, italic, CJK emphasis, strikethrough, superscript, subscript, links, horizontal rules, code
- Other Improvements:
- Added visible filename when switching between tabs with hidden title bar
- Copy URL command to open files from menu in Library
- Command-Click links in Editor
- Use - to exclude words from searches: -microsoft word
- Inline code command
- Typing suggestions can be enabled in Touch Bar
- Korean and Russian localizations
- Added help articles
New in iA Writer 5.1.2 (Sep 27, 2018)
- Hashtags:
- If you’re writing an article about a hashtag and want it to look like text, just put a backslash before the hash sign #TalkLikeAPirateDay
- Dark Mode on macOS Mojave:
- Updated to match system look
- System light and dark state is matched by default
- Switch to manually managing state in General preferences
New in iA Writer 5.1 (Sep 20, 2018)
- Hashtags:
- Write #tags to group files
- Use in Quick Search and Smart Folders
- All hashtags are shown in Organizer and Go menu
- Hide hashtags from Preview and PDFs in Templates preferences
- Smart Folders:
- Filter your files using a variety of rules including text searches, file extensions, hashtags, parent and ancestor paths, absolute and relative dates
- Use a custom sort order
- Automatically sync across your devices
- Get automatic keyboard shortcuts in Go menu
- URL Commands:
- Updated commands to create and open documents
- Added authenticated x-callback-url commands to read and write files
- Manage URL commands in General preferences
- Dark Appearance:
- Renamed night mode to dark appearance to conform with a future update of macOS
- System light and dark appearance state is matched by default with a future update of macOS
- Free Candy:
- Added navigation controls to Library in full screen windows
- Assign custom display names to Library Locations in Organizer
- Rename Favorites in Organizer
- Duplicate items in Library
- Go > Enclosing Folder menu
- Fixed an issue where images couldn’t be dragged to Editor from Safari, Photos, and other apps
- Added STIX 2.0 fonts for math expressions in Preview
- HTML tags are dimmed in Editor
- Hide Favorites, Smart Folders, or Hashtags sections from Organizer and Go menu in Library preferences
- Fixes:
- Improved library performance and reduced memory usage
- SVG images are always displayed as pictures when used as content blocks
- Code blocks are excluded from text stats
New in iA Writer 5.0.3 (Jun 18, 2018)
- NEW LIBRARY:
- Added Organizer:
- Quickly access your Library Locations and Favorites (folders and files) in Organizer
- Drag and drop folders from Finder to add them as Library Locations
- Drag and drop folders and files from within Library to save them as Favorites
- Drag and drop to reorder Library Locations and Favorites
- Favorites get automatic keyboard shortcuts in the new Go menu
- Select Multiple Files:
- Shift-Click to select a contiguous range
- Command-Click to select multiple arbitrary files
- Multiple files can be moved to another folder or added to a document as content blocks
- Navigation:
- Library remembers navigation history
- Use familiar navigation keys in title bar to go back and forward
- Click and hold navigation keys to access navigation history
- Filter in Library finds files in only the currently visible folder
- Change sort order of Filter in Library
- FREE CANDY:
- Switch to dark app icon in General preferences
- Added task stats
- Use Control-Tab and Control-Shift-Tab to switch between Organizer, File Browser, and Editor without taking your hands off keyboard
- Upgraded advanced search syntax with more flexible queries
- Added stats toolbar (access in contextual menu or View > Toolbar)
- Improved word and sentence count accuracy
- Added French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and Chinese localizations
- Added Cyrillic to iA Writer Duospace font
- FIXES:
- Fixed an issue where images could not be dropped into Library from Safari, Photos
- Fixed an issue where app could freeze while showing folders with a large amount of images
- Fixed an issue where app could freeze while removing large Library Locations
- Fixed an issue where multiple content blocks dropped onto Editor were inserted in reverse order
- Fixed an issue where tabs were always visible in full screen
- Fixed an issue where cursor position could be lost when enabling syntax control
- Fixed an issue where some text failed to draw correctly after undoing some text editing commands
New in iA Writer 5.0.2 (Jun 12, 2018)
- NEW LIBRARY:
- Added Organizer:
- Quickly access your Library Locations and Favorites (folders and files) in Organizer
- Drag and drop folders from Finder to add them as Library Locations
- Drag and drop folders and files from within Library to save them as Favorites
- Drag and drop to reorder Library Locations and Favorites
- Favorites get automatic keyboard shortcuts in the new Go menu
- Select Multiple Files:
- Shift-Click to select a contiguous range
- Command-Click to select multiple arbitrary files
- Multiple files can be moved to another folder or added to a document as content blocks
- Navigation:
- Library remembers navigation history
- Use familiar navigation keys in title bar to go back and forward
- Click and hold navigation keys to access navigation history
- Filter in Library finds files in only the currently visible folder
- Change sort order of Filter in Library
- FREE CANDY:
- Switch to dark app icon in General preferences
- Added task stats
- Use Control-Tab and Control-Shift-Tab to switch between Organizer, File Browser, and Editor without taking your hands off keyboard
- Upgraded advanced search syntax with more flexible queries
- Added stats toolbar (access in contextual menu or View > Toolbar)
- Improved word and sentence count accuracy
- Added French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and Chinese localizations
- FIXES:
- Fixes for Mojave
- Added Cyrillic to iA Writer Duospace font
- Fixed an issue where images could not be dropped into Library from Safari, Photos
- Fixed an issue where app could freeze while showing folders with a large amount of images
- Fixed an issue where app could freeze while removing large Library Locations
- Fixed an issue where multiple content blocks dropped onto Editor were inserted in reverse order
- Fixed an issue where tabs were always visible in full screen
- Fixed an issue where cursor position could be lost when enabling syntax control
- Fixed an issue where some text failed to draw correctly after undoing some text editing commands
New in iA Writer 5.0 (May 29, 2018)
- NEW LIBRARY:
- Added Organizer:
- Quickly access your Library Locations and Favorites (folders and files) in Organizer
- Drag and drop folders from Finder to add them as Library Locations
- Drag and drop folders and files from within Library to save them as Favorites
- Drag and drop to reorder Library Locations and Favorites
- Favorites get automatic keyboard shortcuts in the new Go menu
- Select Multiple Files:
- Shift-Click to select a contiguous range
- Command-Click to select multiple arbitrary files
- Multiple files can be moved to another folder or added to a document as content blocks
- Navigation:
- Library remembers navigation history
- Use familiar navigation keys in title bar to go back and forward
- Click and hold navigation keys to access navigation history
- Filter in Library finds files in only the currently visible folder
- Change sort order of Filter in Library
- FREE CANDY:
- Switch to dark app icon in General preferences
- Added task stats
- Use Control-Tab and Control-Shift-Tab to switch between Organizer, File Browser, and Editor without taking your hands off keyboard
- Upgraded advanced search syntax with more flexible queries
- Added stats toolbar (access in contextual menu or View > Toolbar)
- Improved word and sentence count accuracy
- Added French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and Chinese localizations
New in iA Writer 4.2.1 (Feb 21, 2018)
- Added support for tabs on macOS High Sierra
- Optimized preview for two most common modes: full size and 50/50 split with editor
- Improved transitions to full size preview
- Syntax control and focus mode states persist across relaunches
- Updated duospaced font
- Fixed an issue where templates could fail to install from iCloud Drive
- Fixed a crash in 4.2.1 hotfix
- Improved performance and stability
New in iA Writer 4.2 (Feb 20, 2018)
- Added support for tabs on macOS High Sierra
- Optimized preview for two most common modes: full size and 50/50 split with editor
- Improved transitions to full size preview
- Syntax control and focus mode states persist across relaunches
- Updated duospaced font
- Fixed an issue where templates could fail to install from iCloud Drive
- Improved performance and stability
New in iA Writer 4.1.3 (Nov 30, 2017)
- All hell breaks loose: iA Writer now comes with an additional duospaced font. Latin characters only for now. Configurable in Editor preferences
- Added actions to create blockquotes
- Renamed File > Open Quickly to Window > Quick Search
- Added support for TeX math expressions in all templates
- Added smart tables, for example: =(2 + 7) or =(TOTAL)
- Fixed an issue on El Capitan which prevented launch
- Fixed an issue where PDF header and footer pages reported incorrect paper sizes
- Fixed an issue where non-Latin characters could be hidden in code blocks
- Improved list indentation
- Included GitHub template with night mode support
- Improved text editing performance
- Improved stability
New in iA Writer 4.1.1 (Nov 25, 2017)
- All hell breaks loose: iA Writer now comes with an additional duospaced font. Latin characters only for now. Configurable in Editor preferences
- Added actions to create blockquotes
- Renamed File > Open Quickly to Window > Quick Search
- Added support for TeX math expressions in all templates
- Added smart tables, for example: =(2 + 7) or =(TOTAL)
- Fixed an issue on El Capitan which prevented launch
- Fixed an issue where PDF header and footer pages reported incorrect paper sizes
- Fixed an issue where non-Latin characters could be hidden in code blocks
- Improved list indentation
- Included GitHub template with night mode support
- Improved text editing performance
- Improved stability
New in iA Writer 4.1 (Nov 23, 2017)
- All hell breaks loose: iA Writer now comes with an additional duospaced font. Latin characters only for now. Configurable in Editor preferences
- Added actions to create blockquotes
- Renamed File > Open Quickly to Window > Quick Search
- Added support for TeX math expressions in all templates
- Added smart tables, for example: =(2 + 7) or =(TOTAL)
- Fixed an issue where PDF header and footer pages reported incorrect paper sizes
- Improved list indentation
- Included GitHub template with night mode support
- Improved text editing performance
- Improved stability
New in iA Writer 4.0.4 (Aug 28, 2017)
- Improved compatibility with future versions of macOS
- Fixed crashes
New in iA Writer 4.0.3 (Jun 29, 2017)
New in iA Writer 4.0.2 (Dec 20, 2016)
- Defined CSS files as to be processed as code
- Fixed an issue where preview scroll bar could be invisible with some templates
- Fixed Strikethough menu item functionality
- Switched to system popup menu indicators
- Improved performance and stability
New in iA Writer 4.0.1 (Dec 9, 2016)
- Added Touch Bar support in Editor
- Added CSV delimiter detection
- Added caption support for source code content blocks
- Enabled SVG image content blocks
- Set up Markdown export to use default extension
- Switched to fixed width numbers in tables in standard templates
- Improved performance and stability
New in iA Writer 4.0 (Nov 18, 2016)
- Embed Local Images:
- Include images from Library in your documents (.png, .gif, .jpg)
- Images are uploaded to Medium and WordPress when sharing a draft
- Embed Tables:
- Include comma separated value files as tables in your documents (.csv)
- Create advanced tables using MultiMarkdown
- Embed other text files:
- Build a manuscript from several chapters
- Embedded source code files are added as code blocks
- Nest text files into each other
- Note: Embedding only works for files in the same folder (or subfolders) as the master file. You can’t embed files in a parallel or higher directory.
- Other Improvements:
- Modified Preview and Library pane behavior so both can be shown
- Swipes on the left toggle Library
- Swipes on the right toggle Preview
- Added toggle button for Focus Mode in title bar
- Focus Mode now dismisses Preview and Library panes
- UI improvements to Library
- Added file info popover in Library
- Switched right-click in Library menu item from “New Folder with Selection” to “New Folder” (hold option for “New Folder with Selection”)
- Added Project Archive export for sharing all embedded files together (.zip)
- Changed Chinese font in editor to Ping Fang
- Improved external file change handling
- Caret position is now restored when returning from full-width Preview
- Performance optimizations and improvements
New in iA Writer 3.2.6 (Sep 14, 2016)
New in iA Writer 3.2.5 (Sep 9, 2016)
- New:
- Hot fix for PDF export on macOS Sierra.
- Recent Improvements:
- Added WordPress Site Picker
- Choose Sort Order in Library
- Double-click Preview separator to reset width to half
- Improved empty link, footnote, and citation appearance in Editor
- Allowed files of unknown type to be opened from Terminal and via Option-Command drag to Dock
- Set default folder in titlebar popover to accord with the currently visible folder in the Library (for New in Library)
- Restored backgrounds for code in PDFs
- Fixed an issue where online images were not rendered in PDFs
- Fixed crashes in documents with empty table captions
- Started counting compound hyphenated words as one
- Custom Templates to preview, create PDFs, and print documents in your own style
- Insert with page breaks `+++` on an empty line
- Print and export PDFs with a title page
New in iA Writer 3.2.4 (Aug 16, 2016)
- Added WordPress Site Picker:
- WordPress users with more than one site can now choose where to share.
- Choose Sort Order in Library:
- Newest or Oldest on Top for Date Modified
- A–Z or Z–A for file Name and Kind
- Access in View > Sort Files By, Right Click in Library > Sort By
- Other Improvements:
- Hotfix for Word import and Copy Formatted functionality
- Double-click Preview separator to reset width to half
- Improved empty link, footnote, and citation appearance in Editor
- Allowed files of unknown type to be opened from Terminal and via Option-Command drag to Dock
- Set default folder in titlebar popover to accord with the currently visible folder in the Library (for New in Library)
- Restored backgrounds for code in PDFs
- Fixed an issue where online images were not rendered in PDFs
- Fixed crashes in documents with empty table captions
- Started counting compound hyphenated words as one
- Recent Improvements:
- Custom Templates to preview, create PDFs, and print documents in your own style
- Insert with page breaks `+++` on an empty line
- Print and export PDFs with a title page
New in iA Writer 3.2.3 (Aug 11, 2016)
- Added WordPress Site Picker:
- WordPress users with more than one site can now choose where to share.
- Choose Sort Order in Library:
- Newest or Oldest on Top for Date Modified
- A–Z or Z–A for file Name and Kind
- Access in View > Sort Files By, Right Click in Library > Sort By
- Other Improvements:
- Hotfix for docx import and Copy Formatted functionality
- Double-click Preview separator to reset width to half
- Improved empty link, footnote, and citation appearance in Editor
- Allowed files of unknown type to be opened from Terminal and via Option-Command drag to Dock
- Set default folder in titlebar popover to accord with the currently visible folder in the Library (for New in Library)
- Restored backgrounds for code in PDFs
- Fixed an issue where online images were not rendered in PDFs
- Fixed crashes in documents with empty table captions
- Started counting compound hyphenated words as one
- Recent Improvements:
- Custom Templates to preview, create PDFs, and print documents in your own style
- Insert with page breaks `+++` on an empty line
- Print and export PDFs with a title page
New in iA Writer 3.2.2 (Aug 8, 2016)
- Added WordPress Site Picker:
- WordPress users with more than one site can now choose where to share.
- Choose Sort Order in Library:
- Newest or Oldest on Top for Date Modified
- A–Z or Z-A for file Name and Kind
- Access in View > Sort Files By, Right Click in Library > Sort By
- Other Improvements:
- Double-click Preview separator to reset width to half
- Improved empty link, footnote, and citation appearance in Editor
- Allowed files of unknown type to be opened from Terminal and via Option-Command drag to Dock
- Set default folder in titlebar popover to accord with the currently visible folder in the Library (for New in Library)
- Restored backgrounds for code in PDFs
- Fixed an issue where online images were not rendered in PDFs
- Fixed crashes in documents with empty table captions
- Started counting compound hyphenated words as one
- Recent Improvements:
- Custom Templates to preview, create PDFs, and print documents in your own style
- Insert with page breaks `+++` on an empty line
- Print and export PDFs with a title page
New in iA Writer 3.2.1 (Jun 23, 2016)
- Custom Templates:
- Preview, create PDFs, and print documents in your own style
- Templates are web pages. Use HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to lay out your documents
- Add templates in Preferences
- Download more templates from [iA Writer’s Web Site](https://ia.net/writer/templates)
- Learn more about templates in Help:
- Page Breaks:
- Add page breaks to printed documents and PDFs
- Insert with `+++` on an empty line
- Format > Add Page Break:
- Title Pages:
- Print and export PDFs with a title page
- Default templates show document name and author on the title page
- Set the author in Preferences:
- Other Improvements:
- Added option to change default file extension in Preferences
- Fixed an issue where attempts to change file file extension via title bar popover could fail
- Fixed an issue where tables were not inserted in new documents
- Updated to MultiMarkdown 5.3
- Adjusted drag and drop in Library to follow system conventions: Drag to move, Drag while holding Option to copy
- Recent Improvements:
- Export drafts to WordPress and Medium
- Focus Mode for Paragraphs
- Support for MultiMarkdown’s Table of Contents
- “Open Quickly” for quick access to documents with Shift-Command-O
- Advanced search syntax: quoted phrases, logical operators. Learn more in Help
- Click tasks to mark as completed
New in iA Writer 3.2 (Jun 22, 2016)
- Custom Templates:
- Preview, create PDFs, and print documents in your own style
- Templates are web pages. Use HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to lay out your documents
- Add templates in Preferences
- Download more templates from iA Writer’s Web Site
- Learn more about templates in Help
- Page Breaks:
- Add page breaks to printed documents and PDFs
- Insert with `+++` on an empty line
- Format > Add Page Break
- Title Pages:
- Print and export PDFs with a title page
- Default templates show document name and author on the title page
- Set the author in Preferences
- Other Improvements:
- Added option to change default file extension in Preferences
- Fixed an issue where attempts to change file file extension via title bar popover could fail
- Fixed an issue where tables were not inserted in new documents
- Updated to MultiMarkdown 5.3
- Adjusted drag and drop in Library to follow system conventions: Drag to move, Drag while holding Option to copy
- Recent Improvements:
- Export drafts to WordPress and Medium
- Focus Mode for Paragraphs
- Support for MultiMarkdown’s Table of Contents
- “Open Quickly” for quick access to documents with Shift+Command+O
- Advanced search syntax: quoted phrases, logical operators. Learn more in Help
- [x] Click tasks to mark as completed
New in iA Writer 3.1.4 (Apr 22, 2016)
- Share to WordPress:
- Add your account in Preferences
- Create drafts on your WordPress site with File > Share > New Draft on WordPress
- Other Improvements:
- Added a preference for default document action: New or New in Library
- Added a toggle for last used Syntax Control
- Excluded links from reading time and text statistics
- Improved automatic name generation
- Updated to MultiMarkdown 5.2
- Recent Improvements:
- Focus Mode can be expanded to the bounds of full paragraphs
- Support for MultiMarkdown’s Table of Contents
- “Open Quickly” for quick access to documents with Shift+Command+O
- Advanced search syntax. Learn more in Help
- Export drafts to Medium (Add an account in Preferences)
- [x] Click tasks to mark as completed
- German and Japanese localizations
New in iA Writer 3.1.3 (Mar 29, 2016)
- Focus Mode for Paragraphs:
- Focus Mode can be expanded to the bounds of full paragraphs
- Accessed via Preferences > Editor > Focus Mode
- Your Table is Ready:
- Click the Table button in the toolbar and set the desired number of rows and columns
- The required Markdown for the table is created for you instantly
- Other Improvements and Fixes:
- Fixed an issue where documents did not refresh when changed by some text editors and third-party sync services
- Added an option to hide text snippets in Library
- Stopped showing non-text files in iCloud Library
- Improved H6 alignment at the beginning of a page
- Fixed an issue which prevented Smart Delete from working
- Fixed an issue where toolbar could remain visible when typing
- Smart Quotes no longer convert primes to curly quotes in code blocks
- Recent Improvements:
- Support for MultiMarkdown’s Table of Contents
- “Open Quickly” for quick access to documents with Shift+Command+O
- Advanced search syntax. Learn more in Help
- Export drafts to Medium (Add an account in Preferences)
- [x] Click tasks to mark as completed
- German and Japanese localizations
New in iA Writer 3.1.2 (Feb 29, 2016)
- Support for MultiMarkdown’s Table of Contents:
- Add `{{TОC}}` to your documents to have a table of contents generated in Preview
- `TOC` button in the Format Toolbar adds this for you
- An entry is made for each heading in the document
- Click a TOC entry to jump to that section of the document
- Added File → Open Quickly `⇧⌘O`:
- Blazing-fast, it searches through your Library
- Use arrow keys to navigate results
- `return` to open document in a new window
- `⇧return` to open document in the current window
- `⌘return` to show in Finder
- Search supports advanced syntax:
- Search for specific terms by quoting `"search query"`
- Match the first word of name or text using `^word`
- Use set operators `AND`, `OR`, and `NOT`
- Search for names or texts that contain a specific word with `name:notes` or `text:"book"`
- See the full description and examples in Help
- Changed default shortcuts for structure actions:
- Old shortcuts are still available for compatibility with other text editors
- Shift Right `tab`
- Shift Left `⇧tab`
- Move Line Down `⌘⌥↓`
- Move Line Up `⌘⌥↑`
- Improved URL scheme support:
- `iawriter://new` and `iawriter://new-in-library`
- Both support an optional text parameter `iawriter://new?text=`
- Other Improvements:
- Search results are now sorted by relevancy
- Added commands to insert a table of contents tag into the document
- Improved code block detection
- Added “Replace All” to Find bar
- Added “New” action to Dock
- Improved heading appearance in Japanese
- Fixes:
- Set up new windows to use last visible state of library and preview
- Fixed a delay when opening a new window
- Improved text editing performance
- Improved stability
New in iA Writer 3.1.1 (Feb 5, 2016)
- Improvements:
- [x] Click tasks to mark as completed
- Code blocks:
- Improved code block detection
- Emphasized code with a different background color
- Prevented spell checking in code
- Added text actions in “Format” > “Structure”:
- Shift Left ⌘[
- Shift Right ⌘]
- Move Line Up ⌥⌘[
- Move Line Down ⌥⌘]
- Improved transition to full size preview
- Improved automatic name generation
- Preview toolbar uses matching colors
- Added text size to Editor preferences.
- Added line length limit Editor preference: 64, 72, or 80 characters
- Added “Show in Library” action in Search
- Added options to print header and footer separately
- Added “Edit” > “Transformations” > “Make Title Case”
- Added progress indicator for background export and sharing operations
- Upgraded to MultiMarkdown 5.0.1
- Improved returns to preserves the amount of leading whitespace
- Fixes:
- Fixed an issue where search was not working for non-Latin scripts
- Fixed an issue where indentation preference could show a wrong value
- Improved performance and stability
New in iA Writer 2.1.3 (Mar 27, 2015)
- Improved contextual menu for URLs
- Stability improvements
- Performance improvements
New in iA Writer 2.1.2 (Feb 20, 2015)
- Stability improvements
- Performance improvements
New in iA Writer 2.1.1 (Jan 3, 2015)
- Links can be created via the Toolbar
- Print Formatted is now the default for Command+P
- Stability improvements
- Performance improvements
New in iA Writer 2.1 (Nov 12, 2014)
- Runs beautifully on Yosemite
- MultiMarkdown updated to 4.6
- Refined Focus Mode
- Japanese input in Yosemite
- Stability Improvements
- Performance Improvements
- Supports 10.7 and later
New in iA Writer 2.0 (Oct 15, 2014)
- Improved text view
- Integrated MultiMarkdown
- Improved Auto Markdown
- Support for Japanese and Chinese
- Double-byte spaces in Markdown syntax
- Supports 10.7 and later
- And many other improvements
New in iA Writer 1.5.2 (Aug 26, 2014)
- Final improvements for 10.6 before moving to supporting 10.7 or later.
New in iA Writer 1.5.1 (Sep 9, 2013)
New in iA Writer 1.5 (Sep 2, 2013)
- Markdown to Microsoft Word 2007 converter:
- Import .docx to Markdown (Drag’n’drop)
- Export Markdown to .docx
- NOTE: On some computers, the export feature currently needs iCloud Document share on. Fix is coming soon.
- Extensive in-app help (Command-?)
- Fully HTML5 compliant export
- Reference link and image syntax support
- Format bar and shortcuts
- Print formatted option
- Print header and page numbers
- Asian input improvements
- Italics
- Performance improvements
New in iA Writer 1.4 (Nov 5, 2012)
- Responsive design: resize the window to change font size
- In-app preview panel (Command-R)
- Optimized for Retina displays
- Formatted QuickLook preview
- Standardized Find and Replace
- Selection-sensitive word count
New in iA Writer 1.3.1 (Aug 10, 2012)
- New surface design
- Copy/Paste bug fix
- Renaming under 10.7 fix
- Improved Markdown parser
- Stability improvements
New in iA Writer 1.3 (Jul 20, 2012)
- Mountain Lion ready
- Full iCloud Folder support in Mountain Lion
- iCloud folder access in Lion
- Standard window framework
- Improved Markdown and Versions support
- Optimized printing
- Speed bump
New in iA Writer 1.2.2 (May 28, 2012)
- Copy text as HTML
- In-app file rename
- Improved text encoding
- Improved markdown handling
- Writer is now sandboxed
- QuickCursor support
- Fixes and enhancements
New in iA Writer 1.2.1 (Mar 9, 2012)
- Open/Save with any file extension
- QuickLook integration
- Optimized nested lists
- UI and performance optimizations
- iCloud file list ordered by "last modified”
- Fixes issues with Versions
- Small bug fixes
New in iA Writer 1.2 (Nov 29, 2011)
- iCloud support
- Basic AppleScript support
- Document proxy icon
- Optimized transitions
- SizeUp support
- Enhancements & fixes
New in iA Writer 1.1.2 (Sep 14, 2011)
- OPTIMIZATION OF:
- Versions
- Links in lists
- Russian glyphs
- Undo/Redo
- Bug fixes
- Versions
- Full screen
- Auto-save
- Export to RTF
- Strike through -tag-
- Greek glyphs
- Text encodings
- Window persistency
- Remember spell check settings
- Remember window settings
- Various bug fixes
New in iA Writer 1.1.1 (Sep 2, 2011)
- Enhancements:
- No line breaks on export
- Black text on print outs
- Bug fixes
New in iA Writer 1.1 (Aug 23, 2011)
- Lion support:
- Versions
- Full screen
- Auto-save
- Features & Enhancements:
- Export to RTF
- Strike through -tag-
- Greek glyphs
- Text encodings
- Window persistency
- Remember spell check settings
- Remember window settings
- Various bug fixes
New in iA Writer 1.0.1 (Jun 16, 2011)
- Open, save files with markdown extensions
- Export markdown to HTML
- Word/character counter in Fullscreen Mode.
- ⌘+←→ default behavior (sentence navigation is ⌘+⌥+←→)
- Elegant markdown with ⌘+B (strong) and ⌘+I (emphasis)
- Smooth window movement
- Top bar UI fixes (red dot, double click, right click)