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About
"Less is more", as minimalist architect Mies van der Rohe says.
Not only is this aphorism true in architecture, it’s true in writing as well.
Enter myTexts, software specifically designed with you, the writer, in mind.
Unlike most word processors, myTexts stands apart from the rest with its simple to use user-friendly interface. Without the burdens of superfluous features common in other softwares, myTexts helps you get more meaning out of your words with less distraction.
With myTexts, you don’t need to worry about the glitz and glamour of eye-candy filling your screen, meaning less crashes, less distractions, and less troubles; myTexts’ integrated automated environment helps you focus almost automatically on writing. Simply put, you don’t have to worry about pesky pests like windows, buttons or formats. No mess, no fuss. myTexts truly turns your Mac into a supercharged typewriter.
Having trouble maintaining and locating your writings? With myTexts, there’s no need for you to worry about your documents, text files, backups, or how to regain them - myTexts takes care of it all for you! All of this is done in a self-explanatory and user-friendly way. myTexts saves your writing in the background and creates a backup at every start-up if you wish.
All of your writings are just one click away at the left-hand side menu and are completely searchable. For your convenience, myTexts allows you to add tags to your documents, which, in turn, can be added to your Spotlight searches as well; thus, you will never again lose or misplace another text document.
myTexts can be customized to fit your personal needs. Fonts, size, space, color or line spacing, myTexts serves to support you and your creativity. Working on a glossy display, good-looking? No worries. myTexts’ background was designed to remove the distraction of reflections created by glossy screens.
No man is an island - not even the best poet. Since we write to be widely read and understood, myTexts multi-format file support makes it easy to exchange files with the outside world. myTexts inherently has read/write support to common and prevalent file formats like txt, rft, doc, docx, html, schreiben, odt and xml.
Key Features
● gorgeous fullscreen view
● database for all entries
● smart folders for grouping
● export/print single/arranged/all
● export/print with date/title/notes
● entries are stored as single files too
● customize colors | font | size | margins | etc.
● auto-save
● auto-backup
● iDisk | Dropbox sync
● tag your texts
● OpenMeta | Spotlight support
● iTunes-like search
● all your texts at your fingertips
● apply notes to each text | entry
● word count
● supports .txt | .rtf | .doc | .docx | .xml | .html
● dual display support
● lots of more nifty features
Not only is this aphorism true in architecture, it’s true in writing as well.
Enter myTexts, software specifically designed with you, the writer, in mind.
Unlike most word processors, myTexts stands apart from the rest with its simple to use user-friendly interface. Without the burdens of superfluous features common in other softwares, myTexts helps you get more meaning out of your words with less distraction.
With myTexts, you don’t need to worry about the glitz and glamour of eye-candy filling your screen, meaning less crashes, less distractions, and less troubles; myTexts’ integrated automated environment helps you focus almost automatically on writing. Simply put, you don’t have to worry about pesky pests like windows, buttons or formats. No mess, no fuss. myTexts truly turns your Mac into a supercharged typewriter.
Having trouble maintaining and locating your writings? With myTexts, there’s no need for you to worry about your documents, text files, backups, or how to regain them - myTexts takes care of it all for you! All of this is done in a self-explanatory and user-friendly way. myTexts saves your writing in the background and creates a backup at every start-up if you wish.
All of your writings are just one click away at the left-hand side menu and are completely searchable. For your convenience, myTexts allows you to add tags to your documents, which, in turn, can be added to your Spotlight searches as well; thus, you will never again lose or misplace another text document.
myTexts can be customized to fit your personal needs. Fonts, size, space, color or line spacing, myTexts serves to support you and your creativity. Working on a glossy display, good-looking? No worries. myTexts’ background was designed to remove the distraction of reflections created by glossy screens.
No man is an island - not even the best poet. Since we write to be widely read and understood, myTexts multi-format file support makes it easy to exchange files with the outside world. myTexts inherently has read/write support to common and prevalent file formats like txt, rft, doc, docx, html, schreiben, odt and xml.
Key Features
● gorgeous fullscreen view
● database for all entries
● smart folders for grouping
● export/print single/arranged/all
● export/print with date/title/notes
● entries are stored as single files too
● customize colors | font | size | margins | etc.
● auto-save
● auto-backup
● iDisk | Dropbox sync
● tag your texts
● OpenMeta | Spotlight support
● iTunes-like search
● all your texts at your fingertips
● apply notes to each text | entry
● word count
● supports .txt | .rtf | .doc | .docx | .xml | .html
● dual display support
● lots of more nifty features
Overview
1. Create a new entry (cmd+N)
· Entries are stored inside database and as extra text file on disk by default
· Entries and files are automatically saved in the background by default
2. Apply tags to each entry
· Tags are used for grouping, are searchable and can be written to Spotlights database
· Tags can be changed at any time
3. List of all your entries
· List supports drag-and-drop
4. Create a new 'Smart Folder' for grouping entries (cmd+shift+N)
· Apply title and the tags used to filter all entries (e.g. show all entries with tag 'poems')
· 'Smart Folders' can be changed at any time
5. Apply filters (ctrl+1/ctrl+2/ctrl+3/ctrl+4)
· [All] - resets the filter to show all your entries
· [Smart] - applies the selected 'Smart Folder' to the list of entries (e.g. show all entries with tag 'poems')
· [Current] - shows all entries from last hour/day/week/month (changeable in Preferences)
· [Flagged] - shows all entries marked as 'flagged'
6. List of all your 'Smart Folders'
· List supports drag-and-drop
7. Indicates if an entry is marked as 'flagged' (cmd+M)
8. Search all your entries (cmd+alt+F)
· Search for Title/Tag/Content
9. Switch to 'Notes' view
· Apply individual notes to each entry
· Notes can also be printed and exported
· Notes can be viewed and edited in a separate view (ctrl+N)
10. If disabled the sidebar/toolbar won't hide automatically/by cursor
· Entries are stored inside database and as extra text file on disk by default
· Entries and files are automatically saved in the background by default
2. Apply tags to each entry
· Tags are used for grouping, are searchable and can be written to Spotlights database
· Tags can be changed at any time
3. List of all your entries
· List supports drag-and-drop
4. Create a new 'Smart Folder' for grouping entries (cmd+shift+N)
· Apply title and the tags used to filter all entries (e.g. show all entries with tag 'poems')
· 'Smart Folders' can be changed at any time
5. Apply filters (ctrl+1/ctrl+2/ctrl+3/ctrl+4)
· [All] - resets the filter to show all your entries
· [Smart] - applies the selected 'Smart Folder' to the list of entries (e.g. show all entries with tag 'poems')
· [Current] - shows all entries from last hour/day/week/month (changeable in Preferences)
· [Flagged] - shows all entries marked as 'flagged'
6. List of all your 'Smart Folders'
· List supports drag-and-drop
7. Indicates if an entry is marked as 'flagged' (cmd+M)
8. Search all your entries (cmd+alt+F)
· Search for Title/Tag/Content
9. Switch to 'Notes' view
· Apply individual notes to each entry
· Notes can also be printed and exported
· Notes can be viewed and edited in a separate view (ctrl+N)
10. If disabled the sidebar/toolbar won't hide automatically/by cursor
Print entries
1. Select content for printout
· Entry Structure: Date/Title/Body/Note
2. Select scope for printout
· Print selected (in list) entry
· Print all arranged (in list) entries - (e.g. all entries marked as 'flagged')
· Entry Structure: Date/Title/Body/Note
2. Select scope for printout
· Print selected (in list) entry
· Print all arranged (in list) entries - (e.g. all entries marked as 'flagged')
Export entries
1. Select content of exported document
· Entry Structure: Date/Title/Body/Note
2. Select scope of exported document
· Export selected (in list) entry
· Export all arranged (in list) entries - (e.g. all entries marked as 'flagged')
3. Choose file format for export
· Supported formats: .txt/.rtf/.doc/.schreiben/.docx/.xml/.odt/.html
The philosophy of myTexts is to allow you to focus on the text, the words and not to waste time thinking about formatting. Thus, everything you will save/export is without any style/formatting by default but you are free to apply a custom font and size (available in Preferences) for exported documents…
· Entry Structure: Date/Title/Body/Note
2. Select scope of exported document
· Export selected (in list) entry
· Export all arranged (in list) entries - (e.g. all entries marked as 'flagged')
3. Choose file format for export
· Supported formats: .txt/.rtf/.doc/.schreiben/.docx/.xml/.odt/.html
The philosophy of myTexts is to allow you to focus on the text, the words and not to waste time thinking about formatting. Thus, everything you will save/export is without any style/formatting by default but you are free to apply a custom font and size (available in Preferences) for exported documents…
Import text/documents
1. Create a new entry
2. Import any .txt/.rtf/.rtfd/.doc/.schreiben document
2. Import any .txt/.rtf/.rtfd/.doc/.schreiben document
Data | Database | Single Files | Backup | Sync
1. If enabled all you texts will automatically be saved in the background
2. If enabled myTexts will perform a complete backup of your database at startup
· in case of errors or mistakes you can revert at any time (Menu > myTexts Data > Restore)
3. All entries are automatically saved (and auto-saved) as single text files
· Working with a database is really fine - but (and there is always a but, isn't it?) in case of an error all entries are gone – that is why myTexts additionally stores all your entries as single text files by default
4. Enable if you want to store your database, your text files on your iDisk/Dropbox, on a thumb drive, extern HDD etc.
5. Please ensure that this path/folder is accessible and writable
6. Enable if you want to store your backup on your iDisk/Dropbox, on a thumb drive, extern HDD etc.
7. Please ensure that this path/folder is accessible and writable
8. myTexts supports OpenMeta, thus you can automatically write applied tags to the Spotlight database
2. If enabled myTexts will perform a complete backup of your database at startup
· in case of errors or mistakes you can revert at any time (Menu > myTexts Data > Restore)
3. All entries are automatically saved (and auto-saved) as single text files
· Working with a database is really fine - but (and there is always a but, isn't it?) in case of an error all entries are gone – that is why myTexts additionally stores all your entries as single text files by default
4. Enable if you want to store your database, your text files on your iDisk/Dropbox, on a thumb drive, extern HDD etc.
5. Please ensure that this path/folder is accessible and writable
6. Enable if you want to store your backup on your iDisk/Dropbox, on a thumb drive, extern HDD etc.
7. Please ensure that this path/folder is accessible and writable
8. myTexts supports OpenMeta, thus you can automatically write applied tags to the Spotlight database
Setup iDisk/Dropbox Sync
Mac 1
1. Open myTexts
2. Create at least one entry
3. Open 'Preferences' window
4. Open the 'Data' tab
5. Enable 'Use custom database/text files location'
6. Choose folder on iDisk/Dropbox
7. Quit myTexts
Mac 2
1. Open myTexts
2. Import Database file from the iDisk/Dropbox folder
3. Open 'Preferences' window
4. Open the 'Data' tab
5. Enable 'Use custom database/text files location'
6. Choose the same folder on iDisk/Dropbox
7. Quit myTexts
1. Open myTexts
2. Create at least one entry
3. Open 'Preferences' window
4. Open the 'Data' tab
5. Enable 'Use custom database/text files location'
6. Choose folder on iDisk/Dropbox
7. Quit myTexts
Mac 2
1. Open myTexts
2. Import Database file from the iDisk/Dropbox folder
3. Open 'Preferences' window
4. Open the 'Data' tab
5. Enable 'Use custom database/text files location'
6. Choose the same folder on iDisk/Dropbox
7. Quit myTexts
Distraction Free Environment
1. Choose 'Background' color (will effect text views, table views, toolbars etc.)
· because there is more to tint than just a simple text view it is not possible to choose a custom color
2. Switch between big/small insertion mark
3. Disable if you don't need the visual feedback for the current paragraph
4. Apply screen font, size and spacing
· Choose preselected font or apply custom
5. Apply font (size) for print/export
· Choose preselected font or apply custom
6. Apply margins (left/right)
· This only effects the screen settings and it will not effect printouts
7. Apply padding (top/bottom)
· This only effects the screen margins and it will not effect printouts
8. Adjust space from top
· This only effects the screen margins and it will not effect printouts
· because there is more to tint than just a simple text view it is not possible to choose a custom color
2. Switch between big/small insertion mark
3. Disable if you don't need the visual feedback for the current paragraph
4. Apply screen font, size and spacing
· Choose preselected font or apply custom
5. Apply font (size) for print/export
· Choose preselected font or apply custom
6. Apply margins (left/right)
· This only effects the screen settings and it will not effect printouts
7. Apply padding (top/bottom)
· This only effects the screen margins and it will not effect printouts
8. Adjust space from top
· This only effects the screen margins and it will not effect printouts
General Settings
1. Disable if you want to sort your entries alphabetically or by hand
· This does not effect the 'Current' filter
2. Sometimes it could be a good feedback to see a small white frame around the text view when selecting an entry
3. Since myTexts is designed to focus on writing the sidebar and the toolbar will hide automatically by default
· You can also toggle them by menu or shortcut (Toolbar: cmd+alt+I, Sidebar: cmd+shift+I)
4. Don't like shortcuts? Not a problem! Activate Sidebar/Toolbar/Scroller with cursor
5. If you are working/writing on a second screen - please enable
6. Apply the scope for the 'Current' filter: last hour/last day/last week/last month
· This does not effect the 'Current' filter
2. Sometimes it could be a good feedback to see a small white frame around the text view when selecting an entry
3. Since myTexts is designed to focus on writing the sidebar and the toolbar will hide automatically by default
· You can also toggle them by menu or shortcut (Toolbar: cmd+alt+I, Sidebar: cmd+shift+I)
4. Don't like shortcuts? Not a problem! Activate Sidebar/Toolbar/Scroller with cursor
5. If you are working/writing on a second screen - please enable
6. Apply the scope for the 'Current' filter: last hour/last day/last week/last month
Support
I love to create small, focused and easy-to-use software.
This includes extensive, friendly, and (most of all) quick support.
If you have any questions, wishes, suggestions
or otherwise unspecified comments/requirements, feel free to contact me.
· Every application comes with a feedback tool included.
Access it by using Menu > Help > Provide Feedback.
· Please send your emails to info@myownapp.com
· Or use the contact form at my website: http://www.myownapp.com
· Or twitter me: http://www.twitter.com/moapp
create.live.love
Michael (MOApp)
This includes extensive, friendly, and (most of all) quick support.
If you have any questions, wishes, suggestions
or otherwise unspecified comments/requirements, feel free to contact me.
· Every application comes with a feedback tool included.
Access it by using Menu > Help > Provide Feedback.
· Please send your emails to info@myownapp.com
· Or use the contact form at my website: http://www.myownapp.com
· Or twitter me: http://www.twitter.com/moapp
create.live.love
Michael (MOApp)