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Feel very optimistic about this software, ProjectWizards have 20+ years of experience and it shows, this piece feels robust like a train on rails, shows a lot of potential. Moving anything I see serious enough from the wet cornflake mush (ironically called obsidian) to here now, documents done in this look like they really going to last decades.
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Response from developer
Thank you very much!
Can’t see what I’m typing
I read the other review on this app before trying it out, and was hoping it wasn’t that bad - but it is. As soon as I start writing any kind of lengthy document, I can’t see what I’m typing because the editor is constantly scrolling to the top of the document. CLI does better than this for writing with asciidoc.
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Response from developer
Yes, we’re aware of the scrolling issue in our iOS version. We’re working on reproducing it but haven’t had any luck so far. Your help would be greatly appreciated! Please contact our support team at support@projectwizards.net so we can investigate your issue further and find a solution. Thank you for your understanding and patience.
Definitely not worth $15/month
I had high hopes for this app as I have been looking for an app for iOS that would allow me to generate and preview Asciidoc files. Some of the things I really like about this app are:
- The preview of the document that I am working on
- Spell checking of the document
- Organization of the project into a folder and automatic addition of the media folder
- Creation of a config file that defines how the rendered docs look
What I don’t like about this app:
- Spell check would underline correctly spelled words and would not give me any suggestions for why it was saying the word was wrong
- Document would scroll to the top whenever I attempted to move through lines using the arrow keys on the Apple Magic Keyboard for the 12.9 iPad (closing and re-opening the app resolved this)
- The automatic creation of .iCloud files. I don’t use iCloud for my docs but instead use a repository where I can get revisions and manage the files like code. I would like to have preferred an option to turn this off.
All of these issues could be worked around as they are not deal breakers for the most part. What made them a deal breaker is having to pay $15/month or $150/year for an app that is unpolished, has bugs and forces the use of a service I do not care to use as I have other cloud storage options that I prefer over to iCloud. One time payment of $15, maybe I would just buy it and find ways to make things work. Continual payment for an app that behaves like this one does, not a chance. I’m instead making due with Textastic for the document editing and Working Copy for the git workflow management. It’s not the perfect solution but they are a one time cost and I can work around the issues and wants that these applications lack.
- The preview of the document that I am working on
- Spell checking of the document
- Organization of the project into a folder and automatic addition of the media folder
- Creation of a config file that defines how the rendered docs look
What I don’t like about this app:
- Spell check would underline correctly spelled words and would not give me any suggestions for why it was saying the word was wrong
- Document would scroll to the top whenever I attempted to move through lines using the arrow keys on the Apple Magic Keyboard for the 12.9 iPad (closing and re-opening the app resolved this)
- The automatic creation of .iCloud files. I don’t use iCloud for my docs but instead use a repository where I can get revisions and manage the files like code. I would like to have preferred an option to turn this off.
All of these issues could be worked around as they are not deal breakers for the most part. What made them a deal breaker is having to pay $15/month or $150/year for an app that is unpolished, has bugs and forces the use of a service I do not care to use as I have other cloud storage options that I prefer over to iCloud. One time payment of $15, maybe I would just buy it and find ways to make things work. Continual payment for an app that behaves like this one does, not a chance. I’m instead making due with Textastic for the document editing and Working Copy for the git workflow management. It’s not the perfect solution but they are a one time cost and I can work around the issues and wants that these applications lack.
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Response from developer
Thank you for your detailed feedback. We would like to find solutions for the issues you mentioned, especially the scrolling problems and the creation of .iCloud files. Please contact our support team at support@projectwizards.net so we can investigate these issues together.
