BE FOCUSED — FOCUS TIMER
Free Made for iPhone, iPadThe hard part of writing is often getting
started. Lots of people use timers for
focused completion of tasks of all kinds,
where you have writing “sprints” with
no distractions for a set time. This app
lets you create timers for various tasks
that you can customize, and tracks your
progress over time so you can see how
often you met your targets, or even
surpass them.SCRIVENER
$19.99 Made for iPhone, iPadA classic writer’s app, this is a way of
keeping your writing and complex notes
all in one place and easily cross–
referenced. It’s made for making long
manuscripts easy so you can divide
things into sections, re–order, redesign all
at once, search your whole project, and
more. It even has an index card mode, so
you can look at how you’re structuring
things. The ultimate writer’s assistant.
BYWORD
$5.99 Made for iPhone, iPadWant to concentrate just on your writing?
Byword is a distraction–free writing
environment, so it focuses on just your
words, with no styling to worry about
(though you can add some formatting
using the Markdown language). You can
sync whatever you write to the cloud
automatically, and there are word and
character counts. A pure writing app
that’s made for focusing on your text.A
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