{"id":7808,"date":"2013-09-10T11:10:31","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T16:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=7808"},"modified":"2013-09-25T19:57:35","modified_gmt":"2013-09-26T00:57:35","slug":"wordbox-1-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/10\/wordbox-1-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Wordbox 1.1"},"content":{"rendered":"

After hearing about it on ATP<\/a>, I gave the Wordbox<\/a> iPhone text editor a try. I like the “Magical Scroll Button” that lets you select text by tapping a button rather than tapping and holding (and waiting). Unfortunately, you have to tap twice—once on the button and once on Select before you can begin drag-selecting. And showing the button adds an extra row to the keyboard, which uses a lot of valuable screen space unless you are otherwise using the Markdown keys.<\/p>\n

I think it’s worth it, though. Text selection and editing are what most make using iOS feel like a chore to me. I recall my old Pilot 5000 with a stylus being more pleasant. Wordbox’s button makes it a little<\/em> better, but I think Apple needs to come up with something a lot<\/em> better. Gestures<\/a>, cursor keys? I don’t know.<\/p>\n

Wordbox feels very fast, much moreso than WriteUp<\/a>. However, it’s missing some important features that I want<\/a>. For example, there’s no way to search the contents of your files (just the names). It can sync with Dropbox, but only to ~\/Dropbox\/Apps\/Wordbox<\/tt>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After hearing about it on ATP, I gave the Wordbox iPhone text editor a try. I like the “Magical Scroll Button” that lets you select text by tapping a button rather than tapping and holding (and waiting). Unfortunately, you have to tap twice—once on the button and once on Select before you can begin drag-selecting. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[47,31,26,68,567],"class_list":["post-7808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-dropbox","tag-ios","tag-iosapp","tag-texteditor","tag-wordbox"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7964,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7808\/revisions\/7964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}