You don't have to use them it works as well with stricter syntax. It might be slightly non-standard in these areas, and be less compatible with other apps, but if you're writing an email or a quick post and converting to HTML within the app, these are big time-savers. Three consecutive hyphens on their own line make a horizontal rule (normally you'd need spaces between them, or more of them). Ordered lists don't require a delimiter after the number. Paragraft also slightly modifies the syntax of Markdown in areas where it's less than convenient on an iOS keyboard.
It's the app's most prominent feature, but not nearly the coolest.
This means that you can quickly drag paragraphs and list items around to reorder them. Paragraft has made me begin to rethink the possibilities.įirst, Paragraft treats each line of text as a separate object. TextExpander Touch can help quite a bit, too, but none of these really tap the capabilities of the iPhone and iPad. Other apps handle auto-continuing lists, maybe adding bold and italics, but still leave you digging through multiple levels of iOS keyboards to get to some symbols. Nebulous Notes has the flexibility to start getting there, but you have to build all the macros yourself. I love Markdown, and while it's far superior to writing HTML or dealing with Rich Text in an iOS environment, I always miss the Markdown speed I can achieve in TextMate and other text editors on the Mac. There's no shortage of Markdown-enabled apps on any Apple platform right now, and I love that.
The good parts of Paragraft blew me away enough that I'm able to overlook an ugly icon and some bad interface decisions to deliver a fairly glowing endorsement: this is the first app I've found that has really allowed Markdown on iOS to make sense. I just discovered Paragraft, a text editor for iPad and iPhone that boasts some ingenious Markdown features (if I've lost you already, check out the TUAW Markdown Primer for a crash course).
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