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Text Editor for the iPod Touch

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Problem: I do a lot of writing. I go through notebooks furiously, filling them up with notes, thoughts, stories, and shopping lists. My family has recently caught on, and begun buying me notebooks for gifts, so that I have quite a store of them, and should I misplace a notebook I can just open up a new one until I find the old, half-full notebook lying under a stack of unopened mail, and try to figure out a way to combine everything written in the new book into the old book, even though I'm really too lazy to copy it all over.

Solution: I'd much rather have an electronic notebook - just a pocket sized gadget, about the size of an iPod, with a keypad and a text editor, on which I can write and store all of my notes. And I don't mean just a sticky-note type program - I want full scale writing capabilities. I want to be able to write a whole story in one note if I should so desire, and then go back and edit the file, and save it again.

Even better would be an application for my iPod Touch, to turn it into a text editor. I wouldn't have to buy a new device, and since I already bring my iPod everywhere and look after it furiously, the chances of damaging or misplacing it are slim. The iPod Touch has already got the touch screen keyboard and the ability to store information, so I hope that with the new DevKits Apple has released, this isn't far off.

Are you listening programmers? Build me a TypePod!

4 Comments

this is what you should do go to contacts click add contacts then click add new field click notes (towards the bottom) then type away and when you connect to the computer it'll sync I also would rather have a text editor but can't find one

I agree. But, you know, I am writing to you right now from my wifi touch. Is there a website out there right now that has formatting capabilities, copy and paste, load and save features? That little safari apps can do a surprising amount of work.

I'm just trying out some HTML markup using the iPod touch text editor which required jailbreaking. But if you dont fancy that you should see ine very soon after the sdk is launched as you mention.

i have a mobile version of text edit on my ipod touch. but my ipod is jailbroken.



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