%% date:: [[2023-12-14]] parent:: %% # [[Keeping it real when writing with AI with iA Writer's Oliver Reichenstein]] speaker:: "[[Oliver Reichenstein]], [[Andy Polaine]]" - iA Writer was inspired by a typewriter - "Focus mode" - translating the physical to the virtual - spent a lot of time on typography - "Reading typography" vs "writing typography": monospace fonts have a lot of benefits - Inspired by Word, but Word is more for layouting - iA Presenter - No PowerPoint - Inspired by Cicero's thoughts on presentation - Doesn't use stock photos - Doesn't encourage you to fill slides - Backlinks in iA Writer is hidden in the code - still messy. As good as other apps, but they want to unlock it only when it's ready. - Structural writing (outlining, planning) should be done separately from generative writing - Andy uses Obsidian for structural writing and iA Writer for generative writing - Writing = thinking - Take the last thing you wrote and paste it in the intro - AI - as a dialogue partner to read complex texts - Spotting mistakes in grammar and spelling - iA's authorship feature - iA Writer lets you distinguish between what you write and what you paste - You can refer to other authors (not just AI) when you're pasting their words, and iA Writer highlights what you've written and what they've written. - Says the Obsidian team has ripped off iA Writer design... but he still likes them... - Agrees that it's not the team itself, but the plugin/theme developers - He still thinks kepano and the team should take a stance against them. - He mentioned syntax highlighting - Markdown Annotations suggestion from authorship feature - https://github.com/iainc/Markdown-Annotations - https://forum.obsidian.md/t/support-markdown-annotations-a-la-ia-writer-7/72232