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iPhone, one week later
The virtual keyboard is much better than it has any right to be. Right now, I'm still manually correcting my text rather than letting the auto-correction do its job. I also forget that it doesn't register a hit until after you release. i.e., if I hit the wrong key, I can slide to the correct key and all is ok. The most damning things I can come up with right now are that in portrait mode, the keyboard does not feel centered to me and that there is only one shift key. (I naturally use the same thumb as the hand I would have touchtyped with.)
My biggest annoyance right now is getting data on and off the thing. Apple clearly did not learn its lesson very well with the Newton. None of the text editors I looked at do what I want in this respect. (Why am I blaming Apple? If they'd admit to a filesystem on the thing, I think it would be much easier. The Newton, BTW, really didn't have a filesystem.)
I don't want something that syncs to the "cloud". I just want something that lets me move text files to and from my computer. TextGuru apparent comes with an FTP server, but the web accounts are that I can't use it to get files off the iPhone. WriteRoom allows you to edit files on your computer only via a web browser. WritePad might actually so what I want. It also does handwriting recognition. However, it's crash prone so I'm not considering it for now.
Documents To Go and QuickOffice both appear to offer saner syncing options. I want to edit text though, not Word files. (QuickOffice supports creating text files. It still seems like overkill. Documents To Go actually does not support creating text files although it lets you edit them. Neither supports RTF which would be the only reason I have for now to get an office suite for my cellphone. OTOH, QuickText is on sale right now. If I never need the rest of the office suite, it might not be a bad idea.)
For now, I may just use Notes. It syncs to, of all programs, mail.app. This means lots of copying and pasting like I would have to do with WriteRoom. The latter doesn't appear to support cut and paste (yet?) and their talk of an eventual syncing solution relies on the "cloud". These two things make me less than eager to buy it.
(Oh yeah, I also looked at NotePad, but their syncing app for OS X didn't fill me with confidence. It has an empty drop down menu whose name is " ".)
My biggest annoyance right now is getting data on and off the thing. Apple clearly did not learn its lesson very well with the Newton. None of the text editors I looked at do what I want in this respect. (Why am I blaming Apple? If they'd admit to a filesystem on the thing, I think it would be much easier. The Newton, BTW, really didn't have a filesystem.)
I don't want something that syncs to the "cloud". I just want something that lets me move text files to and from my computer. TextGuru apparent comes with an FTP server, but the web accounts are that I can't use it to get files off the iPhone. WriteRoom allows you to edit files on your computer only via a web browser. WritePad might actually so what I want. It also does handwriting recognition. However, it's crash prone so I'm not considering it for now.
Documents To Go and QuickOffice both appear to offer saner syncing options. I want to edit text though, not Word files. (QuickOffice supports creating text files. It still seems like overkill. Documents To Go actually does not support creating text files although it lets you edit them. Neither supports RTF which would be the only reason I have for now to get an office suite for my cellphone. OTOH, QuickText is on sale right now. If I never need the rest of the office suite, it might not be a bad idea.)
For now, I may just use Notes. It syncs to, of all programs, mail.app. This means lots of copying and pasting like I would have to do with WriteRoom. The latter doesn't appear to support cut and paste (yet?) and their talk of an eventual syncing solution relies on the "cloud". These two things make me less than eager to buy it.
(Oh yeah, I also looked at NotePad, but their syncing app for OS X didn't fill me with confidence. It has an empty drop down menu whose name is " ".)