cool idea, terrible execution

This is a very cool idea, and I would love for it to work — but as you can see from the constant stream of updates, the quality control for this thing is pretty chaotic.

Right off the bat, it becomes so laggy as to be totally unusable on my 27” retina iMac. I mean, so slow that words take 5-10 seconds to appear on screen. In regular window mode it seems OK-ish?

I made a comment in my previous review (see below) about how weird the format of the rough draft export was to bring into a Markdown app for safe keeping — and they immediately (in one of the near-daily updates to this app) changed it to .rtf, which makes it a lot harder to do what I was doing. Classy! I’ll be moving on, thanks guys.

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Lastly, the format for an export of a rough draft file is some insane mess of custom tags instead of, say, standard Markdown. If you take the time to do a bit of find/replace, you can change the weirdo tags it uses to mark deleted text, and replace with “||” so you can paste the whole thing into Ulysses or some other Markdown-aware editor and have a permanant copy of your rough draft with all the deletions marked. That’s what I was thinking of doing (have no other use for this thing), but this app is too unstable to use for more than 5 minutes.

Ignatius_J_Reilly about Rough Draft, v1.7.9