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Add to SafariWhen comparing Federated Wiki vs iA Writer, the Slant community recommends iA Writer for most people. In the question“What is the best cross-platform note-taking app?” iA Writer is ranked 50th while Federated Wiki is ranked 60th. The most important reason people chose iA Writer is:
The Noise Free Writing Experience is one of the first approaches to create a first class distraction-free environment. The feature hides the Mac program bar when you start writing.
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Pros
Pro Stories
Arrange your personal view of a wikis content by opening local and remote pages next to each other. Shift-clicking a link will open it next to already open ones. The story will then be visible in the URL.
Pro Free and Open Source Software
Pro Versioning
Your page is the Journal of the page.
Pro Drag and drop refactoring
Recompose your contents all the time.
Pro Federation
Write locally, fork to your public site. Fork from others.
Pro Noise Free Writing Experience removes even the program bar
The Noise Free Writing Experience is one of the first approaches to create a first class distraction-free environment. The feature hides the Mac program bar when you start writing.
Pro A mode that brings focus to the sentence you're working on
Enabling Focus Mode will dim the whole text except the sentence you are currently writing on.
Pro Can tell how long it would take to read through what you've written
Pro Markdown support
Pro Syncs using iCloud and Dropbox
iA Writer can sync documents using iCloud or Dropbox from within the editor for use across multiple devices.
Pro Create whole document by including separate images/markdown docs
This is new and very awesome feature in iA Writer 4.0.
Pro Can export a Word document
Pro Available for all Apple devices
iA Writer is available for Mac, iPhone and iPad.
Cons
Con No drag'n'drop file upload
Con No Linux support
