The best writing apps for macs
WRITERS CAN BE a picky bunch. Some have special pens, others demand a particular kind of notebook or a certain writing location. And on Macs, writers definitely have their favorite apps.
Like pens and places, those favorites differ from person to person. Some prize the beauty of the writing environment; others, the speed of the search engine. Some want to use the same app for scripts, scribbles and shopping lists; others want an app that focuses on paid–for projects.
There is one thing many can agree on, though, and that’s Markdown. Markdown was created by John Gruber, aka Daring Fireball, and it’s designed to make it really easy to create structured text without sacrificing readability. That structure makes it easy to output the same document in multiple formats, something that writing app developers were quick to notice:
