This is just a simple test to see how punishing to Ghost directly from iA Writer on iPad would work.

I wanted to use Ulysses, but hate the subscription model. I don’t feel like I will write enough to justify spending a few bucks a month on a writing tool (I only write as a hobby after all).

All you need to do is set up Ghost Integration and add your Admin API ky to iA Writer. Then, you can just hit Publish after you finish writing.

This will take you to Ghost's editor page with your content! You can then edit your post and/or publish it to your blog.

Note that this is only a one-way and one-time upload. Changes you make in the Ghost editor will not sync back to iA Writer. Any changes you made in the writer after you update will also not be sync to Ghost.

A bit more about iA Writer

I first used iA Writer on macOS since it was originally released on the Mac back in 2011. It was the app that introduced me to Markdown. In fact, I was learning and using the Markdown syntax for a long while without even knowing what it is.

Back then, iA Writer was one of the first, if not the first, writing app to introduce “focus mode”. In this mode, the app highlight, by default, only the sentence the caret (the little I indicating where you are typing on) is on. This greatly save my English-as-a-second language self from writing overly long, stupidly complex, and completely unnecessary sentences that many of us, non-native users of English, love to do times and times again. We just never learn to start a new sentence.

Seeing each sentence being highlighted as you type make it very clear if a sentence is getting too long.

The blur effect applied to unfocused text in earlier version of the app is also a complete joy to look at. Something that made my never ending amount of essay assignments much more bearable.