Editing The Pen Addict 9/transcript (section)

== Pencil Talk ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' I want to cover some pencil talk. You know, I do get asked for recommendations from time to time for pencils, and I'm not a hardcore pencil user, but I do have some favorites that I'd like to talk about. So I think that's what we'll go with this week.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Cool. Just before we do that, so that's what we call a tease in the business. Let's talk about our first sponsor for this week, and it's Drafts by Agile Tortoise. Drafts has been getting a lot of really great press this week. I mean, I think it even got tweeted out by the iTunes App Store. Oh, wow. Yeah. You know, they have like an App Store Twitter account, and I think even they tweeted it out. It's been covered absolutely everywhere, so I'm sure you've heard about it by now. But if you've maybe seen the app Drafts fly by your Twitter stream or you've seen it in a – like someone's made a blog post or a review, take it from me. Take it from Brad. You need to get your hands on this application. It's absolutely fantastic. It's basically if you have some text and you want to do something with some texts, open Drafts. Basically, you know, you can put – say you want to write a tweet. So you've got some sort of funny tweet that you want to send out. So maybe it will take a little bit of work to refine the tweet. Maybe you want to come back to it in a day or two later. I know people that actually do this. So you can open up Drafts, chuck some tweets into Drafts, and then you can export it using the iOS 5 Twitter integration straight out to Twitter. You can – if you use Tweetbot, you can send it into Tweetbot if you prefer to do it that way. You can write out emails in Drafts, and the reason you do that is because it has Markdown support. So you can write in Markdown, check your Markdown preview to make sure that all your links and everything is all in the right place, and then you can email straight out, or you can copy the Markdown straight to the clipboard. It's an absolutely fantastic app. You can change some of the appearance settings. You can change – there's a bunch of fonts, so it uses the fonts that are built into iOS 5 and allows you to change those over. There's some color changes, text size changes, the whole lot. But it's a really, really great app, and believe it or not, all this functionality, Brad, for $0.99.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, when I saw what it – all the things you could do with it, I mean, I was a day one purchaser of it. I mean, for $0.99, it's a no-brainer. And, you know, it's funny you were telling the story about people writing their tweets down, you know, what they think is a funny tweet and working on it. That's actually what I did. The first thing I did with Drafts was, you know, I'm hilarious, right? So I'm sitting in there. I'm sitting in the carpool line, you know, waiting to pick up my daughter from school. And I was like, oh, I need to write – you know, some thought popped into my head, wrote it down in Drafts. It gives me the character count and the word count. And I wrote this idea down. And, you know, when I got home, I was like, let me finish this up. And I went and, you know, changed a couple words, and I sent it over to TweetBot just to see how that integration worked. And opened up TweetBot, hit send, and it was right out. It was really cool. So I think this is something I'll be using a lot.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And, you know, one of the reasons you might want to put faults and stuff into Drafts is because it opens super fast. Like, even if it's – even if you force quit the app, like it's not even in RAM anymore, if you just tap it from – just the keyboard comes up. As soon as you open the app and as soon as that keyboard animation is up, you're ready to go. There's no waiting around. Like, I am a fan of Simple Note for some, you know, for some text entry stuff. And they've just done a load of speed refinements, but it's still nowhere near as fast as Drafts for me. And I know that Greg, who's the developer at Agile Tortoise, he's working on putting loads more of those URL scheme type apps in. I mean, I know that OmniFocus support is coming with an update. So you'll be able to send things from Drafts straight into OmniFocus, which would be big for some people. So, yep, only 99 cents in the app store. It's available now. There's a link in the show notes that will take you straight to the app store so you can buy it. Don't delay. So, let's talk about some pencils.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. No, I want to play a game.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Okay.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I want to play Guess Myke's Appearance Settings and Drafts.

'''Myke Hurley:''' All right, okay.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I bet you're on Night.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Let me check. I know I am using... I want to check that it's called Night. No, I'm using Grayscale.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh, I lose.

'''Myke Hurley:''' What are you using?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I double lose because I use Grayscale too and I don't really want to be like you.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I'm going to have to change it now. What font? I'm using Fonbury.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I'm using... Is it Cochin or Cochin?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Cochin? We sound terrible. We sound so uncultured, don't we?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I know.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, no, I really like the Grayscale.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, no, I do too. That's my favorite. Anyway.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Night is too dark. It's too Batman for me.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I just went with that because of your blog. So I thought, well, maybe he's in a theme here.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I'm not just all about dark colors. Okay. I have a lighter side. Although my lighter side is gray.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So can we get on to pencils now or do we like to guess some more colors?