First Draft 1.2 (Thanks to You!)
(1.18.16 First Draft was the “rough draft” of Rough Draft’s name • update)
It’s taken a little longer than we like, but we’re happy to announce the release of version 1.2 today. Here’s what’s new!
Addéd Accented Chäräctêr Support 🇵🇱🇬🇷🇩🇪🇫🇷🇪🇸
Okay… that’s not how you should use accented characters. We’re still new to this, but have added in Spanish, Italian, French, German, Greek, and Polish keyboards thanks to Ra, Borbah, and many (many) others!
We’re still new to accented letters, so please let us know if we’re doing this right. We still have a number of keyboards/languages to add in, and will be adding a few in each update.
(Please tweet or comment here letting us know if yours isn’t there yet)
Update: We found out thanks to Ra and @Adrianrconant that most Spanish writers actually use the “Spanish ISO” keyboard, we’ve just submitted an update with support for ISO that should be out next week. Sorry for the wait. Thanks for your patience and help everyone!
Easy Folder & Draft Export
You can now right click on a draft in a folder — or the entire folder itself — to export a draft as a .txt file.
We didn’t get any tweets about this specifically, but with the end of NaNoWriMo coming up there are sure to be authors wanting to export entire folders of writing. Hopefully this will make that much easier!
That’s it… Along With Small Behind-The-Scenes Stuff
First Draft is now more stable, as been fixed for those of us who highlight a full word before deleting. Also, we’ve made performance improvements towards optimizing the overall speed of the app.
We’ve got bigger updates coming to the overall writing experience next week. There are great added settings to focus on only the word that you’re writing right now and a cool cooling function to give you a little more wiggle room to edit words. It may sound a little weird, especially given my strange explanation, but we’re looking forward to surprising you!
We’ve also been hard at work on the iOS version. We’ve just released the beta of it, so please tweet us if you want to give the beta a try on your iPad or 📱!
Just ask, like Andrei, and it will be yours!
(You probably don’t have to ask exactly like him 😉)
If you haven’t updated yet, or haven’t tried First Draft:
