9/21/2023 0 Comments Wonderpen review![]() ![]() Compare that to its more illustrious competitors: Bear costs $14.99 a year and Ulysses, costs $39.99 a year. I find the lack of distractions helps me write. Using the app to write this review I am enamored by its spartan UI. The export options are adequate and I love the attention WonderPen lavishes on backups. I like the approach to ordering your document contents through the sidebar and then exporting it out. I liked the minimal ethos to the program. Otherwise there are better options available to you in the marketplace. In its current iteration, is only a good place to write in if you are comfortable with Markdown. You get to choose to automatically backup, manually backup right now and access your backups through this preference pane. You get to choose the font of the editor and the font of the UI. You can assign a folder for WonderPen to keep its database. No support for Services, another aspect of macOS which makes it special and convenient to work in.So it is doable, WonderPen doesn't care about supporting those features. This is disappointing because Caret which is also an Electron app does support the system features on macOS. Two spaces for a period or start every new sentence with a capitalized letter are not supported from the macOS system. WonderPen doesn't support text expansions built into macOS.There is a perfectly usable spell check function built into macOS, but WonderPen doesn't support that. Doesn't support any form of spellchecking.While it supports a well implemented full screen mode, it doesn't support typewriter scrolling.Nor does it make any effort to make it easier to include URL links in your documents. WonderPen doesn't support the autocompletion of brackets that makes Markdown writing easier.WonderPen doesn't automatically let you continue an ordered or unordered list.Yes, it does bold (⌘B) and italic (⌘I), but it doesn't support anything else. In random order of importance, things WonderPen doesn't do: Giving me ample choices to make the product usable. I am interested in the text export and WonderPen does a great job of that. WonderPen has a comprehensive set of exporting options, you can export to a PNG file, a PDF file, word document (docx), text, and HTML file. There is a dark mode and a light mode, but there are no themes or syntax highlighting in code blocks.įor an application which keeps your files in a proprietary database one of the important things to consider is how to get your documents out of the program. The snapshot history is accessible from the button on the right bottom corner. You can save snapshots of your work from a particular state and return to that state. If you have a ton of projects in the sidebar, you can reduce distraction by focusing on the project you are working on. ![]() This is important when you export the document, the export stays true to the hierarchy of files you have created. This makes the process of writing a long document and arranging it easier. You can move these component parts around by drag and drop or by keyboard commands. So, you don't have to write it all in one document. You can have a folder which contains parts of an article you are writing. Like Scrivener and Ulysses, WonderPen gives you the ability to write in small chunks. The left sidebar is the project sidebar, you can toggle this on and off (⌘1). You can preview your markdown and there is an usable full screen implementation. It is a nice touch which reminds me of a similar feature in Scrivener. Every document in WonderPen has the ability to have an assigned Memo window where you can comment on the document and the content for your own reference. The middle window, the editing window, and a memo window to the right. The sidebar on the left contains your document hierarchy. WonderPen gives you a three pane window to write in. It has some nice touches and some glaring omissions. I suppose you can put the database in a Dropbox folder and access your documents through a second macOS device using WonderPen but I haven't tried that out. Just a folder on your hard drive where the database resides. No explicit Dropbox sync, no iCloud sync. ![]() Like Ulysses and Bear it keeps its documents in a proprietary database and unlike them, it doesn't have an online component. For those who don't, this is an interesting product which lets you write on the Mac. For those who care about that, it might be a deal breaker. One sentence review: It reminds me of Ulysses without all the attention to detail.Īt the base, it is a Markdown based text editor. WonderPen is another Markdown based text editor. ![]()
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