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"In a text editor, chapters are files. Organizing your files is work, but in a large text body it’s essential work. Your book or thesis will grow from it and get stronger as you clarify the structure. With iA Writer 7.2, structuring large writing projects has become a lot easier."

In other words, my favorite text editor just got a big upgrade for anyone writing large projects (hey, that's me!).

I've long been an iA Writer superfan: all my blog posts are written in it, and I use it as the starting point for most meaningful documents. This new update brings it into direct competition with Ulysses, another markdown text editor I love. I've been using iA Writer for short-form writing and Ulysses for longer-form writing (I have a very large book draft in there right now). But now, potentially, I can do it all from one app.

What it doesn't seem to do - yet - is the kind of file re-ordering that Ulysses excels at, so I can move scenes and chapters around each other with ease. From this post, it sounds like that will come:

"Tree view is the first step toward a document outline. Tree view is the technical foundation for offering a more detailed view of the document structure. All we can say for now is that it will work very much like tree view, just inside the document."

It's all great work. This level of care and attention in a text editor really matters. I'm grateful that iA exists.

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