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Draft (YC S11) Is The Best Word Processor You Can Write With Today

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Re: Draft (YC S11) Is The Best Word Processor You Can Write With Today

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bengillies wrote: post #10

Very cool. I really like the simple approach and feel there's a _lot_ of mileage in it. However, a couple of questions/points: 1: How do I give my documents a title? 2: Does it support Markdown/how do I link to stuff? 3: The home button doesn't appear to work on an iPad I may very well have missed something (I haven't published anything yet and didn't search too hard for instructions (it didn't seem to need any)) but…

1: If you are editing the document, hover over the home icon, there's a "name this document" link. Or. you can use markdown for titling things.

2. So yes. Markdown is supported.

3. Ah, sorry, the home button uses hover states. I never intended for much iPad use yet, but it seems like it's getting some good use there. I'll fix that soon.

Re: Draft (YC S11) Is The Best Word Processor You Can Write With Today

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metaxy2 wrote: post #9

The "ask a professional" feature is really cool. A couple of years ago some MIT students came out with a plugin for Word called Soylent [1]. It's the same basic idea, except it's backed by Mechanical Turk instead of a team of professional editors. Turkers suggest small changes and the changes are voted in or out of the final draft by other turkers. Pretty cool stuff. [1] http://projects.csail.mit.edu/soylent/

That is pretty cool. Thanks for mentioning that project. I'll have to take a deeper look.

Re: Draft (YC S11) Is The Best Word Processor You Can Write With Today

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Post by bengillies »

nate wrote: post #11
bengillies wrote: post #10

Very cool. I really like the simple approach and feel there's a _lot_ of mileage in it. However, a couple of questions/points: 1: How do I give my documents a title? 2: Does it support Markdown/how do I link to stuff? 3: The home button doesn't appear to work on an iPad I may very well have missed something (I haven't published anything yet and didn't search too hard for instructions (it didn't seem to need any)) but…

1: If you are editing the document, hover over the home icon, there's a "name this document" link. Or. you can use markdown for titling things. 2. So yes. Markdown is supported. 3. Ah, sorry, the home button uses hover states. I never intended for much iPad use yet, but it seems like it's getting some good use there. I'll fix that soon.

Cool, thanks for the rapid reply. For the record, most of the interface seems to look and work just fine on an iPad. Keep up the good work.
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