Sometimes, the best things in life are free! : : Clint MacDonald had suggested (privately to me as I discovered) several text editors which could combine with dropbox to allow some basic text editing.
: Since one of them, the Plain Text editor, was free, I decided to try it and it meets my : needs absolutely perfectly. : : I have dropbox both on my PC and Iphone. I noticed a rather strange : behaviour when transferring plain text written with notepad directly into : one of the dropbox folders. Instead of each item showing up on a separate : line in a grocery list (or for that matter any other item with intentional : linebreaks) everything seemed to come out in one line plus I could do no : editing in the dropbox Iphone results.. : : When I installed Plain text in my Iphone and did the update through itunes, : I discovered another folder had been created in my PC dropbox folder called : plain text. : : I mention this since, if you decide to delete items in other folders, the : dropbox on the Iphone shows up as being empty which initially caused : considerable consternation. However, when I opened plain Text on my Iphone, : the text files which I had placed in the Plain Text folder were there as I : had intended. : : Plain text does indeed have editing features which I haven't yet tried out : using voiceover. While I can manipulate voiceover for text input, I find : the process more tedious and painful using gestures than on a keyboard. I : breezed through the help file but haven't yet tried to do actual editing : since of course all gestures given must be interpreted into the voiceover : equivalents. : : Now, when I go shopping for groceries, which I mostly do with the kind help : of a grocery store clerk, I can share my list with them rather than reading : my Braille list and telling my friendly helpers what I need. Anyway, : handling fresh vegetables in their cooler often results in wet fingers and : destroyed braille. : : Doug: less pain more gain. : : ----- Original Message ----- : From: "Clinton MacDonald" <[email protected]> : To: "iPhone Talk" <[email protected]> : Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2012 12:22 PM : Subject: Re: Transfering Simple Text File To IPhone??? : : :: Doug: :: :: Let us know which one you pick, and why! :: :: Best wishes, :: Clint :: :: On Aug 1, 2012, at 12:17 PM, Doug Parisian <[email protected]> wrote: :: :: > Clint, ya scored again, thanks, I already have dropbox so that's a good : start, now to go for the rest, something very simple and basic. :: > :: > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Clinton MacDonald" : <[email protected]> :: > To: "iPhone Talk" <[email protected]> :: > Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2012 12:02 PM :: > Subject: Re: Transfering Simple Text File To IPhone??? :: > :: > :: >> Doug: :: >> :: >> There are many dozens of iPhone text editors that sync to specific : folders in Dropbox. To name a few: PlainText, Simplenote, Elements. FOr a : canonical list go to -- :: >> :: >> <http://brettterpstra.com/ios-text-editors/> :: >> :: >> Best wishes, :: >> Clint :: >> :: >> On Aug 1, 2012, at 11:54 AM, Doug Parisian <[email protected]> wrote: :: >> :: >>> I am using a windows computer and create notes using, of course, : notepad. I want to transfer these to my IPhone. Simply, can I do that, and : how? :: >>> :: >>> Doug: I'd rather be a hammer than a nail! :: :: :: _______________________________________________ :: iPhone-talk mailing list :: [email protected] :: http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/iphone-talk : _______________________________________________ iPhone-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/iphone-talk
