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Markdown and the Slow Fade of the Formatting Fetish
Notes on a revolution in slow motion.
NYC Midnight: Short Story Challenge 2025
We are sponsoring the NYC Midnight 2025 Short Story Challenge. This marks our continued partnership with the prestigious literary event.
Second Notebook Batch Ready to Ship
Not sure what to get your friends for Christmas? The next batch of 1,000 iA Notebooks is ready to ship—just in time for the holiday season!
Summer Reading: August Edition
Five more books to help you improve your writing, presenting, and design skills.
How to Build Worlds—and Why
Building worlds is a wonderful inspiration to write and a rewarding pastime in itself.
iAlice
On 4 July Americans will celebrate Independence Day. And so they should, as gloomy days may lie ahead. But did you know that 4 July is also Alice Day?
Summer Reading: July Edition
Looking for reading suggestions for this summer? Check our selection of books about writing, presenting and design.
Why write?
Writing is part of lifelong learning process that keeps us awake, sharp and connected.
Turning the Tables on AI
AI is sold to make us think less... How about using AI not to think less but *more*?
Design as Thought: AI and the Future of Design
Orlando and Oliver studied philosophy together 30 years ago. Their shared love for philosophy, design, and technology reunited them to discuss AI and the future.
Daily Writing Habit: Emergency Kit
We've put together five hacks for creative writing to get your hands back on the keyboard. So, fire up iA Writer and get ready to embark on your writing adventure, once more.
Writing by Numbers
Starting to write can feel like sucking on a lemon. Here's a simple way to plan, start and guide your writing: Use numbers to control your journey.
Markdown in Academic Writing
Academic writing should be "clear, concise, focused, structured, and backed by evidence." Markdown and iA Writer are a winning combination for achieving this.
After all, everyone is distracted once in a while
Staying focused is tough for many, especially those with ADHD. Let’s see how iA Writer helps address the challenges of distractions and focus.
Style Check on Android
After its launch on Mac and iOS last summer and its recent introduction to Windows, Style Check has arrived on Android with version 2.1 of iA Writer. It has been one of our best received and most requested features, therefore we worked hard to make it available for all platforms.
An ADHD-friendly Writing App
There is a ton of specialist advice out there regarding writing for high school and university students with ADHD. Most of these suggest a distraction-free writing environment that allows for channeling one's energy into the task at hand.
The Power of Style Check
Style Check is like having a personal editor-in-chief on your device, carefully reviewing your text for redundancies, clichés and filler words as you type. It's simple, different, powerful, and available for Mac, iOS, Windows and Android.
Syntax Control, Individual Scroll, Snippets
iA Writer for Windows 1.3 is the biggest update the platform has ever seen. It's available to download right now and comes as a free update for existing users.
New PDF Preview, Better Web Publishing, Improved Editing
iA Writer 5.5 for Mac and iOS has arrived. The update adds a powerful mix of functionality and delicate subtlety that will improve your writing workflow.
Music in Writing
Being fully immersed in writing is like composing and playing music while we drum up our perceptions into letters, words, sentences, and paragraphs. How does it all play together?
Write to Organize
Creating the latest update to iA Writer was a slow burn. Beginning with some basic maintenance and then improvements for the new iOS 12 and macOS Mojave, the Kraken was released in the final weeks of preparation. The all new Tags and x-callback-urls are so hip they'll take you to funky town.
Politics and the English Language
An essay by George Orwell that advocates simplicity and precision in writing for clearer thinking and honest communication.
The Elements of Style
A timeless guide to clear and effective writing that still influences authors today. Written by William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White.
Good Writing is Good Thinking
Great writing is more about thoughtful reflection than following rules. Karl Philipp Moritz encourages writers to find and develop their own unique style.
Writer vs Word
Microsoft Word is the classic do-all text editor used by... just about everyone. How does it compare to a modern, focused writing app like iA Writer?
Take the Power Back
You may have heard that the best way to deal with the “information overload” is to switch off your devices. To take a break from the Internet. Go for a run. Roll out the Yoga mat. Read a book. Talk to your friends. Switching off is good advice. But eventually, you’ll be back. How about changing? Changing from passive, to active. From scroll to search, from react to rethink, from like and retweet to write and link. Take the power back.
Computer Poetry
Every time we read a computer-generated text, part of our life gets sucked into a little black electric hole.
Web Trend Map 2018
The most important ingredient for a Web Trend Map is missing: The Web. Time to bring some of it back.
Why we like distractions
Just when it really matters and we should really do what we are about to do we are most vulnerable to distractions. How come? And what can we do about it?
The Ideal Paragraph
You may have read or heard that the ideal paragraph consists of one thought. Clearly, there are various ways to begin and end a thought. One way is to start with a claim or topic sentence, offer examples for your claim, explain how your examples support the claim, repeat the claim in the light of the examples, and build a bridge to the next thought. It is not clear if the ideal paragraph has five, six, seven, a maximum or a minimum number of sentences, as it is not clear what one thought is, where or how it begins, and where or how it ends. On second thought, one could as well argue that every sentence consists of one thought.
Duospace: In Search of the Perfect Writing Font
Monospace is the typical choice that communicates writing. With iA Writer Duospace, we went a step ahead. After seven years of offering no font options to write, iA Writer now comes with a choice. Next to the monospace Nitti you will now find a brand new duospace font. Duospace?
Multichannel Text Processing: The Benefits of Using Markdown
In the classic era of word processing, text was born between MS Word and a printer. Today, it is written and edited on multiple devices and apps, then mailed, printed, copied, pasted, annotated, published, RSSed, shared and re-shared, using all kinds of tools and platforms. Stubborn proprietary file formats fail in this frantic new environment. Plain text does better, but lacks Rich Text’s formatting. Markdown could be our golden gun. If only it looked a little shinier!
The Age of Digital Baroque
After all, blogging is over now, isn't it? Very probably so.
Good Books Want to be Re-read
Good books are good people: Books are people speaking with signs. Meeting cool people several times is nice.
