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ia, 7 months ago to random

“Finished crap can be edited. Unfinished greatness languishes forever. The only bad writing is the thing you didn't write!”
―Margarita Gakis.

#NaNoWriMo with #iAWriter

ia, 7 months ago to random

“You do an awful lot of bad writing in order to do any good writing. Incredibly bad. I think it would be very interesting to make a collection of some of the worst writing by good writers.” ―William S. Burroughs.

#NaNoWriMo with #iAWriter

ia, 7 months ago to random

“Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.” —E. L. Doctorow

#NaNoWriMo with #iAWriter

ia, 7 months ago to random

It's the last week of #Preptober! Congratulations on making it this far. Finishing strong in Preptober sets you up for a successful start to #NaNoWriMo. Learn more setting up your environment in the final part of our series here: https://ia.net/topics/preptober-4-setting-up-your-environment

ia, 8 months ago to random

Most likely, we'll stop selling our apps in China. China simply doesn't want foreign software, it seems: https://www.macrumors.com/2023/10/03/apple-adopts-tighter-china-app-store-rules/

ia, 8 months ago to random

We're starting a new series with writing tips, spiked with the strongest tips from great writers and writing coaches. Today's article is about the foundation of becoming a better writer: building a daily writing habit. https://ia.net/topics/daily-writing-habit-emergency-kit

ia, 8 months ago to hiring

We are #hiring for our new projects. Likely one of the more exciting developer jobs if you’re excited about innovative writing, reading and presentation software. 😊 Know anyone who might be interested? https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/3730426974/

ia, 8 months ago to random

"listen with patience and care, and never…interrupt even when people were having great difficulty in explaining themselves, for during such halting and imprecise moments…people often are very revealing—what they hesitate to talk about can tell much about them. Their pauses…evasions…sudden shifts in subject matter are likely indicators of what embarrasses them, or irritates them, or what they regard as too private or imprudent to be disclosed to another person at that particular time." –G. Talese

ia, 9 months ago to random

We're working on a series of how to videos for Presenter. This is the first, general one: https://youtu.be/HuY4Trg3-Vs

ia, 9 months ago to random

Emoji are the new exclamation marks:

“Why bother with a bland exclamation point when you can decorate your messages with a pair of googly eyes or a smiling pile of dung?”

From: Murder Your Darlings, by Roy Peter Clark

matthiasott, 9 months ago to random

“For an article that reads well on a mobile phone, aim at five paragraphs with five sentences each. Favor short words. 5×5×5×5 letters will fit nicely on a small screen.
[…]
Match structure and meaning with the joy of sound.”

Writing by Numbers

by @ia
https://ia.net/topics/writing-by-numbers

ia, 9 months ago to random

Why does it take so much time to write clear paragraphs, short sentences, and pick small over long words? Because...

“Brevity comes from selection, and not compression.”

Author: Donald Murray, quoted in: Murder Your Darlings, by Roy Peter Clark

ia, 9 months ago to random

We dove into the Digital Markets Act to see what it means for us as an independent software company. Turns out, it's not just relevant – it was surprisingly enjoyable to explore!

https://ia.net/topics/unraveling-the-digital-markets-act

ia, 10 months ago to random

"In a similar vein are the talks, which are little more than a series of bullet points that the speaker reads through. The problem is that the audience is likely to read through them much quicker than the speaker, so people basically know what you’re going to say in advance. As such, keep these sorts of lists in your speaker notes and pick some sort of title or image that illustrates the points you’re about to make instead."

We couldn't agree more. 😉

https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2023/07/become-better-speaker-conferences/

luis_in_brief, 11 months ago to random

@ia so any ETA on iPad version of Presenter? I work on my iPad probably 95% of the time (I’m a manager, probably a key use case for Presenter) and find myself with “maybe I should just buy an Air”-levels of itch to use Presenter. Are we talking months? years?

sophie, 11 months ago to random

@ia hey! is it possible to add sound to presentations, or inject custom HTML (or even JS!) into the presentation?

luis_in_brief, 11 months ago to random

I did a lot of raving about @ia ‘s Presenter last week, but it wasn’t here, because I didn’t realize iA has a presence here.

Well… now I know, so I’ll just share again that iA Presenter is the presentation tool I’ve always wanted. Focuses the process on storytelling rather than slide-building. 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟

ia, 1 year ago to random

Linking files in iAWriter (stay in the text, easy to find and edit, linking plain text files, backwards and forward navigation) vs linking files in Apple Notes on iOS17 (leave text, difficult to find and edit, uses database, no navigation).

Linking files on the upcoming iOS17 Apple Notes