Atuhi News

Just submitted a new version to the App Store. The review process in the App Store is painstakingly slow, so there won’t be any version 1.0.1.

It might take another week for them to review the changes.  

This version includes all the features and fixes of v1.0.1 including:

Project backup

Toolbar layout in portrait mode 

Keyboard shortcut search

and couple of other enhancements

In these series of posts we will introduce several features you will find in Atuhi, that might be less obvious. There are couple of hidden shortcuts that might make your writing life yet a bit easier.

When you first open Atuhi, you’ll see the navigation bar (navbar for short) on the top and the onscreen keyboard should popup, focusing the cursor.

Swipe right over the navbar and you’ll find a toolbar.

Once you start typing the toolbar disappears and you’ll find your self in a distraction free mode. This is where you will probably spend most of your time.

Touch the circle to reveal the toolbar again and swipe left to go back to navigation bar. You can do this in one quick touch and swipe left action.

While waiting for Atuhi 1.0.1 being reviewed at the App Store… Atuhi has been developed for quite a while now and there’s lot of functionality implemented already. You can have a look at the previous posts as well as the website. One by one we will be release new features and with your help fix and improve Atuhi so that it meets your expectations.

What can you expect then?

In no particular order:

Dropbox Sync with the Atuhi for Desktop

Atuhi for Desktop of course

Rich text editor. You will be able to switch between richtext and multimarkdown at any point of your writing.

Support for Zotero on desktop with export to Microsoft Word .docx documents.

Search and replace

and more…

What's new in 1.0.1

Notebook can be hidden by swiping down over the notebook pane title (just like trash)

Markdown preview color codes comment types

Accessory bar has new Tab button to aid list creation

Improved the distraction free writing mode

Preview the entire project

Table of contents in the preview

Snippet preview

Updated the editor font

Fixes:

improved accessory bar behaviour

quote selection

Finally, the App Store review process has been finished, no problems found, so we can proudly release Atuhi 1.0.0 for iPad. 

Now it’s your time. All you need to do is:

Download from iTunes (for free).

Go wild writing.

Let us know what you think in the comments below or @atuhiapp or at our Facebook page.

We’ll be much obliged if submit error reports, feature request and such at our Issue tracker.

We are already working on several improvements and fixes of the current version as well as new features! So, stay tuned... 

After endless days of writing code rather than prose, the light appeared at the end of the tunnel and today Atuhi has been submitted to the Appstore. 

So far we’ve been showing the later release of Atuhi with embeded rich text editor. The current version will be slightly more lightweight and much more streamlined.

What can I expect, you ask?

Aficionados of rich text editing might be a little disappointed, but we are sure Atuhi will please most writers. It’s all about writing after all...

Atuhi 1.0.0 will allow you to:

Write in Multimarkdown and CriticMarkup

Organize large writing projects in an outline

Keep random notes

Export to .docx, .html or Markdown in semantic markup

Text statistics (word, character and customizable page count)

Time tracker

Goals (daily or project)

Diary

Customize and replace smart and straight quotes

Share your writing easily via installed social services such as Tumblr, Facebook, Twitter, Evernote, Google+, Email, etc...

As we have shown before, margin can display comments for the file being edited or all the files in the project. Clicking on a comment will take you to the comment and if necessary will open the appropriate file in which the comment is  located. Let’s see what that looks like...

The margin in Atuhi not only allows to filter comments by type, but also search in comments...

Comments in the margin can be filtered by type. This helps you focus only on comments relevant to your current editing task...

Comments in the rich text editor are displayed in the margin (unlike the inline comments in the MultiMarkdown editor, which we will introduce soon).

Comment type colour coding gives you a quick overview what to pay attention to.

The rich text editor in Atuhi enables you to add comments by selecting a piece of text and pressing the insert comment button. 

You can pick the type of your comment. The comment types are predefined, but will be customizable in the future releases of Atuhi. 

One of the major features of Atuhi is outlining. So this is what the outline looks like:

The default outline is a flat list of "notes" called "Notebook". That's what you'll see when you first open Atuhi. Notebook is what you'll expect: a place to keep random notes, sketches, an occasional blog post and the like. 

For larger project, there's the "Manuscript" outline. We'll talk more about projects later. All the nodes that represent files or text fragments in the outline can be dragged and dropped. 

On iPad you can display the outline by touching the folder icon in the top left corner or by a swipe over the left edge of the screen.

As you can see, Atuhi supports rich text documents and various formatting options. 

Atuhi 1.0 will include wider array of rich text elements, such as tables and images. 

For those who are wondering what are the older posts on Atuhi Beta for desktop all about...

Atuhi Beta for Windows and Mac OS X has been released quietly and has been used only by a handful of people. During the development of Atuhi for iPad, several architectural changes have been made and the desktop version is currently undergoing a substantial rewrite, which will make it better both for the future development as well as for daily use by writers.

Anyone who ever tried to write more then just a tweet on an iPad quickly found that the default iOS keyboard just doesn't do. Many writing tools emerged, such as the great iA Writer.

For those who are capable of writing on the onscreen keyboard (the present author wouldn't leave house without a bluetooth folio keyboard), Atuhi features an accessory bar with common characters what a writer needs, plus two command buttons:

Comment button, which allows you to add a comment to a selected text

Split button, which splits the current text and creates a new text fragment for you

Atuhi is an outlining editor and writing in small, easily manageable chunks is encouraged. 

Thus when you get carried away and your current text is becoms too long and you have difficulties navigating its various parts, split it into smaller fragments with a single click of a button. No clicking to create a new file, no copy and pasting. 

In Atuhi Beta, the accessory bar does not contain arrow keys, which is a feature that will be included in Atuhi 1.0.