Scratch, cloud-enabled word processing app, drops price to $1 for NaNoWriMo 12
While we await the release of webOS 2.0 and its promised QuickOffice suite (with upcoming editing features), let's not forget that we already have a native word processing app for webOS: Scratch, by No Insult Software. Not only is Scratch already up to version 1.4.1, but it supports importing/exporting from Google Docs and offers features such as in-document search, text formatting (bold/italic/underline), "real paragraphs" and style sheets among others. It can be used for everything from quick (and easily exportable) notes to writing and editing long documents.
Even better, Scratch is on sale at $1 (a 75% discount) for the entire month of November, in honor of NaNoWriMo, aka National Novel Writing Month. While writing an entire novel on a thumbboard may be an overly ambitious (not to mention painful) project, given the confirmation that webOS 2.0 will finally include Bluetooth keyboard support, and its $1 sale price, Scratch should be a must-buy for anyone who is or might want to be a writer.
Source: PreCentral App Gallery
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Typed a 1200 word paper with Scratch and moved it to Docs. Definitely worth it.
I've written most of my stuff on my Palms (Tungsten W, 700P and now Pre) and I was planning on writing my novel on my Palm Pre, but it's been slow because I wanted to create an app for editing Wikis to do it on first. I will look into Scratch.
http://doconnor.homeip.net/wiki/index.php?title=The_Last_Employee
Unfortunately, it's "User Guide" isn't. Anyone know where to find a manual for it? Or even just some basic instructions??
I'm glad to say I appreciate Scratch, and I was an early purchaser, eager to support the developer who was boldly going where no developer was boldly going...programming a Word Processing app.
Although I will likely get Quickoffice when it becomes available, I'll always have Scratch too!
Amen. I paid full price for it and it was worth every penny. It's exactly what you need on a mobile OS, much more complex formatting would be pointless on a mobile platform.
I'l try it for a buck! Haven't had good experiences with Google Docs, but I'll give it another try!
I downloaded it for a buck. Definitely worth it. Prior to this, I was typing up things in Memos & emailing them to myself. This is a much better alternative.
I finally bought this gem! I've wanted to buy it since I first heard of it months ago, but didn't really wanna spend the money on something I wouldn't really use. I forgot to get it during palms half off discount but got it this time.
Now if only we could get bt keyboard support I would prolly use this all the time.
I will check it up, really hope it's the answer to following webOS problem, even if the scrollbar seem to be missing...
04) The pretty "Memo" application is pointless (just as before) when each post is limited to just 4.000 letters and you anyhow have ToDo / Task and the Calender... And it is not even possible to sync, so what you really need is a good plain TEXT EDITOR that is easy to back up and open from your notebook, rock solid, ultra fast, has smart search & replace, a slim proportional scroll bar and handle at least 200 huge text documents of minimum 100.000 letters each, sorted in 12 folders... Including at least txt, html and hopefully some other file types... I sincerely hope (and guess) that someone will make a fine text editor, because a true Word document editor IS a lot more clumsy and slower to use, especially in a smartphone... But you could probably use the excellent old PalmOS application CardTXT that have the text functionality you may need and more, with help of the amazing "Classic" emulator - but that will not work in webOS 2.0 anymore!!
And you can read about the 14 other problems, under the presentation of the magic Palm Pre here - http://www.vantechmag.com/bestbuy/dicam.html#gsm
I did read that, and I think he's 'spot on' in his comments about the functionality of the PDA apps, the use of screen real estate, and so on. I hope somebody at HPalm read this (and made notes...) (maybe with Scratch...)
Thank you for the recognition and agreement... I did mainly wrote that, to be able to use webOS as a completely magnificent replacement for my Palm Treo 680 and secondary to help everyone else, who also need excellent PIM functionality ;-)
But since I don't even have a Palm Pre yet, am I flying blind when I try to analyze the potential problems and then is it especially great to hear that I am "spot on" anyhow *hehe*
My problem is that I can't trust the keyboard on my Pre Plus. Sad to say, but true. My old feature phone (Verizon Dare), with its onscreen touch keyboard was far more reliable.
As far as writing a novel on it... I can't get through a text message without getting frustrated.
I hope the new "super" hardware that will eventually come from HP includes a "super" keyboard either physical or onscreen.
I also hope Verizon doesn't screw stuff up on the new ones...