UberWriter - Simple Markdown Editor

UberWriter is a simple Markdown editor. Challenge, write this review it this editor.

Features

• Focus mode - focus will highlight your current sentence.
• Fullscreen mode.
• Spell check.
• Export to PDF, HTML and RTF.
• Math formulas support - you can write math formulas. etc e^2 * x = y after exporting will be formated as e2∗x=y
• Simple design.

Focus Mode

Impression

Writing in in markup language is really fun and relaxing and focus mode makes you focus on writing and current sentence. Also simple design of app helps with that. Contrast between text and background and simple design makes pleasant experience for eyes.

Missing features

While app is not yet finished i would like to see this features included in future versions.

1. One feature that i miss from start that is start to using is tabs, you cant open multiple files at once. I would be nice if tabs were integrated differently than other text editor, standard tabs integration would just break simple design of app.
2. While i like the design and markup language (this is first time i am using it and i like the simplicity of language) i would like more export features like export to Blogger. I don’t like Blogger’s editor that much. I would write text here and edited it there (add images and etc). Export to Google docs would be nice and Ubuntu One sync will be implemented in future versions.
3. Preview feature would be nice, when you write math formulas to quick check if you did not make some mistakes.s
4. Some kind of build in syntax help and examples would be nice. I found this site very useful for syntax examples http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax

Final conclusion

For the first time i used this type of app i am really satisfied with simplicity and productivity that UberWriter gives. Writing is really smooth and contrast of text and background is very pleasant to eyes. While default text editor in Ubuntu Gedit also support markdown UberWriter offers better user experience for writing.
As for challenge to write this review in UberWriter i can say it was success.

Try it for you self

You can download UberWriter by adding PPA, in terminal type:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:w-vollprecht/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install uberwriter

As i mentioned UberWriter is not finished yet and you can send your feedback.

UberWriter by: Wolf Vollprecht
Website: http://uberwriter.wolfvollprecht.de/
Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/uberwriter