Paragraphs: Mac, text, you, and your thoughts
Makradar Technologies / / December 19, 2019
Most of the work I am doing in a text editor and, even though I have "settled" in the Writer Pro, The development Applications in this category monitor does not stop. On the Mac App Store last week, a new text editor Paragraphs, and I just could not not try it. New made in the fashion now minimalist spirit, but it has the necessary functions for productive work.
At the first start I experienced deja vu: a minimum of interface elements, inspirational quotes and a clean sheet. Stop-stop-stop! Somewhere I've seen it... Exactly! IN Typed, Raspiarenny editor from Realmac. However, the differences are still there. And not only in price - it is three times lower - but also in other parts. Otherwise further could not write.
In Paragraps all documents are stored in an internal mini-browser that allows you to work simultaneously with several notes and quickly switch between them. Create a new and start writing.
As soon as you type the first letter, the screen will disappear absolutely everything - you will be alone with your thoughts and text. If you want to open the settings or to return to the main menu, touch the trackpad or mouse, click the appropriate button at the top of the window to the left or right of the text. If you do not take into account the counter of characters (as well as the words and reading time), then, in addition to these two buttons, any interface elements is not here.
Formatting options appear themselves, once we select a piece of text. This pop-up socket has two rows of buttons: located on the first selection of text (bold, italic, underline, and strikeout) and links to the second - the subtitles, quote and code.
Given that Paragraphs positioned as a distraction-free-tool for writing texts without complex formatting, such an approach is appropriate and once again emphasizes the main idea of the application - minimalism.
Settings panel "leaves" from the right edge of the window in the manner of notification of the Center and even has the same translucent effect. Here you can select the interface mode (night and day), and one of four fonts (Cyrillic there are only two of them). Export options are also here, although they can cause, and through the menu bar. The choice available to export to plain text document, Markdown and HTML. You can also send a text to "Messages», Mail, Twitter and so on.
About all the functionality I said, now let's move on to the evaluation and impressions. Work in Paragraphs nice and quite comfortable - contemporary design, the lack of distractions, night, nice little things in the form of animation and interface buttons. While using other applications I have developed a habit, because of which with Paragraphs I experienced some inconvenience. We can not say that this is a big minus, and they are critical for most users - especially given that this is only the first version of the app - but, in my opinion, Paragraps lacks these of things:
- Markdown support. Export text in Markdown-document can be, but used the tags marking the time of writing - it is impossible.
- Lists. Strange, but I have not found any mention of any of the numbered or bulleted lists to.
- Subtitles third and fourth levels. From the pop-up menu accessible format headers of the first and second levels, subtitles can be done.
- Export text in the HTML-code.
In fact, all these flaws could close your eyes, whether in the application Markdown markup support. Everything else is very, very bad for the initial release. If the developers will continue to develop his creation, he has every chance of success.
I think, Paragraphs find its fans. If you compare it with the nearest competitor in the face Typed, then, other things being equal, the hero of this review is three times cheaper. The cost of 600 rubles applications. Trial version, unfortunately, no.
I have tried to reflect in the review of all the details, but if you have any questions, feel free to ask them in the comments.
Price: 749 rubles