There are many apps that I will review for iSource and simply abandon afterwards, but Grandview ($4.99) has not become one of them. I’ve been finding it quite useful for those times when I simply want to bang out some text and not think about how the piece in its entirety is taking shape. I realize that may sound like a terrible overall approach to writing, and that’s why I still see Grandview as a very particular kind of running start.
I’ve been using it as a warm-up tool for wrapping my head around 200-500 news posts that I find interesting, but am not totally familiar with. I like the fact that Grandview tends to lock you in and won’t let you alt-tab or leave, lest you “lose” all of your on-screen progress (nothing is actually lost, since Grandview copies your text to the clipboard). The end result is that I tend to write drafts in one go instead of leaving and checking Twitter intermittently.
I’ve also noticed is that it’s not necessarily Grandview’s one-word display that is helping me start drafts, but rather its incredibly large font size. I haven’t gone wild and set every text editor’s font size to 72, but I am warming up to the idea of having less text on screen at any one time.
I still review my posts paragraph by paragraph before publishing them (usually in WordPress or PlainText), but while I’m actually sitting down and hammering on keys to get juices flowing, I’ve been very much enjoying having Grandview around.
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