As a result, Elements is sure to become a writing tool that I use most every day. Small foibles aside, Elements is a top-notch text editing application and the first iOS app I’ve used that supports true Dropbox syncing and which doesn’t require me to jump through iTunes syncing hoops. Second Gear says it will feature better file organization in a future update. Similarly, Elements can’t access folders that you create inside the the Elements folder, so there’s no way to organize your documents inside the Elements folder, either. For example, Elements is only able to access documents that are in a folder titled “Elements” inside of your Dropbox folder, so you can’t access other documents that you may have stored in other locations in your Dropbox account. On the iPhone, because apps are able to run in the background, my files synchronized nicely even if I happened to close the app before the file was synced.īeyond the iPad file syncing issue, I also wish file organization was a little better implemented. Byword is comparable to iA Writer and WriteRoom in that they are all lightweight. On Android, open your Dropbox app, tap on the Menu button, and then tap on Settings. On iOS, open your Dropbox app and tap on Account. Click on the avatar on the top right, then Preferences, and Account. Elements syncs files to your Dropbox about once every 60 seconds, so what I found was that if I closed Elements by hitting the iPad’s Home button after I’d made changes to a document, but before Elements had reached its 60-second sync cycle, my changes never made their way to Dropbox. Sync all of your Mac, iPhone, and iPad devices with text documents. On your computer, click on the small Dropbox icon in your menu bar or system tray. But I didn’t find it to be impossible to work with and, because the iPhone runs iOS 4, I didn’t run into some of the file syncing issues that I did when using Elements on the iPad. As you might expect, writing using Elements on your iPhone isn’t nearly as nice as it is writing on the iPad, screen space being what it is on the iPhone.
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