PlainText, Dropbox Text Editing for iPhone

This post is a follow-up to “Simplenote and Dropbox Are Meant to be Used Together”. In this piece I wrote last month, I proposed that Simplenote should allow the user to sync entries as text files on Dropbox.

The same day, developer Jesse Grosjean from Hog Bay Software released PlainText, his take at text editors on iOS.

(I shall clarify that I am only testing the iPhone version since I do not yet have an iPad to test it on. It does look to perform far better on it though, usability-wise.)

I have been using PlainText since, and I must say that Jesse truly has a sense of minimalism. Everything is nice and polished, and a lot of thought has been put on the details. Everything is reduced to the bare minimal. There are no distraction: the whole interface is monochrome, and everything is written with Georgia, the well-known serif font.

It has performed very well since I first started using it. No crash, no bug. Jesse is even adding features as we speak.

Sure, it missing some features — word count, shared tags with NV, hidden non-text files, etc. But I will never look back to Simplenote or Elements.

P.S. Although PlainText plays nicely with Notational Velocity, the database file of the latter appear in the list of files in PlainText. I already have made Jesse aware of the issue.

Addendum: by the time I was done with this mini-review, Jesse had already added word count to PlainText 1.2.