
You can also move sections around like an outliner, but FoldingText is still, at heart, an app for writing and working with text. This feature lets you write longer documents, keeping a big-picture view without having to tediously scroll up and down. The $25 app is a combination of a text editor and an outliner: You format your text with Markdown syntax, but you can “fold,” or hide, sections by clicking on header characters.
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Hog Bay Software offers an alternative to WriteRoom called FoldingText, which, while not exactly a focused-writing app, does something interesting. I like Byword’s paragraph focus, which highlights the paragraph I’m working on while dimming the rest of the document. (I’d prefer it if Focus Mode highlighted the current paragraph rather than sentence, since many writers think in terms of paragraphs, but the app’s sentence-level focus seems to be popular.)

The app also includes a Focus Mode that restricts the view even further, letting you concentrate on a single sentence at a time. While it doesn’t let you choose your own typeface, the company’s Nitti is a beautiful mono-space font, and working in iA Writer lets you ignore everything around its document view-I often use iA Writer’s full-screen mode to block out the other windows on my Mac. Information Architects’s $5 iA Writer wins hands down for simplicity and for its attractive (and only) font.

(Note for this feature to be useful, the apps must use a common sync platform such as iCloud or Dropbox.)
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(Since OS X lets you create a PDF from any file, as long as a writing app has a mode or view that shows your text with proper formatting, the app doesn’t need a specific PDF-export feature of its own.)

