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Accessing Textedit Docs on Ipad

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First off ML install went without a hitch.. smooth as you could ask for...

This is probably a very stupid question...

I save a textedit doc in iCloud... how can i access and open it on my iPad or iPhone?

Obviously my keynote and pages documents open in the relevant ios apps but what about text edit docs ?
 
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Puonti

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The way I've understood iCloud, all documents in it are limited in visibility to the applications that can create them; Keynote on iPad and Mac can see Keynote presentations, Pages on iPad and Mac can see Pages documents and so forth.

Since there's currently no TextEdit for iPad, those files can't be accessed with it. The use case for iCloud with TextEdit would be that you have multiple Macs.
 
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Fattytail

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chrisherbert said:
Right now I think Dropbox is probably the best solution for this sort of thing.
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The problem with Dropbox is that "round-tripping" a document is very clumsy. You have to open the doc in another app, makes the changes, save the doc (or email it to yourself) and then upload via the Dropbox app. Hardly ideal.

iCloud fixes this. I just wish there weren't such half-assed solutions like what OP is suggesting. Fine, Apple, I'll use TextEdit with iCloud. But then give me a way to access TextEdit docs on my iOS devices. And, no, I don't want to pay $20 for Pages on my Mac and $10 on my iPad.
 
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Fattytail said:
The problem with Dropbox is that "round-tripping" a document is very clumsy. You have to open the doc in another app, makes the changes, save the doc (or email it to yourself) and then upload via the Dropbox app. Hardly ideal.

iCloud fixes this. I just wish there weren't such half-assed solutions like what OP is suggesting. Fine, Apple, I'll use TextEdit with iCloud. But then give me a way to access TextEdit docs on my iOS devices. And, no, I don't want to pay $20 for Pages on my Mac and $10 on my iPad.
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Have you used Dropbox? Uploading it isn't a step you have to take, it all happens completely automatically (exactly like iCloud) and very fast. You just work on the doc in whatever app you want. Open up the Dropbox app (or any other app that supports Dropbox) on iOS, and there's your updated document.
 
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tarryweather said:
Have you used Dropbox? Uploading it isn't a step you have to take, it all happens completely automatically (exactly like iCloud) and very fast. You just work on the doc in whatever app you want. Open up the Dropbox app (or any other app that supports Dropbox) on iOS, and there's your updated document.
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But with dropbox I would still have the problem of not being able to work on the document on my ipad.

iCloud is supposed to make things seemless, however if like me you use textedit for all sorts of things it's not.

For example I am a professional blogger and I use text edit to create blog posts and then I'll post them to my blog. I am heading to Barcelona for a few days and will be blogging from there. Here on my iMac I have the draft outlines of 3 posts that I''l just need to add a bit to and post.

Ideally I should be able to open my ipad make the necessary additions proof read them and then submit them but I can't. I am going to have to transfer them to pages, buy pages for my ipad then I'll be good to go.
 
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tarryweather

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But with dropbox I would still have the problem of not being able to work on the document on my ipad.

iCloud is supposed to make things seemless, however if like me you use textedit for all sorts of things it's not.

For example I am a professional blogger and I use text edit to create blog posts and then I'll post them to my blog. I am heading to Barcelona for a few days and will be blogging from there. Here on my iMac I have the draft outlines of 3 posts that I''l just need to add a bit to and post.

Ideally I should be able to open my ipad make the necessary additions proof read them and then submit them but I can't. I am going to have to transfer them to pages, buy pages for my ipad then I'll be good to go.
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You can work on Dropbox documents on iOS, just not in the Dropbox app. But the app will allow you to open them in any app that can edit that file type. Many editing apps have Dropbox support built right in so you don't even need to go through the Dropbox app.
 
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mnsportsgeek

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dcorban said:
Possibly.

Note that you can put documents in iBooks via iTunes. That's how I have been reading PDFs and such all along.
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Yes, but the cloud feature in textedit and preview would not be there if an ios weren't coming. As they are now, the feature is useless.
 
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tarryweather said:
Have you used Dropbox? Uploading it isn't a step you have to take, it all happens completely automatically (exactly like iCloud) and very fast. You just work on the doc in whatever app you want. Open up the Dropbox app (or any other app that supports Dropbox) on iOS, and there's your updated document.
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Yes but the problem as the person stated is that you can from the DropBox app open a document to Pages on iOS. But from Pages, you can't say save to DropBox. Thus, the link is broken and you have to deal with emailing etc. etc.
 
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Jensen G

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So you're saying that if I save a TextEdit document to iCloud in ML, there is no way to open it in iOS at all, even though that document now exists in iCloud?

So, I need to purchase Pages for both iOS and Mac ($30 in total) to sync my iCloud TextEdit/RTF documents?

And that doesn't even count the inconvenience of switching from TextEdit to Pages, which is not something I want to do (I love the lightweight nature of TextEdit).

Am I missing something here?
 
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Jensen G said:
So you're saying that if I save a TextEdit document to iCloud in ML, there is no way to open it in iOS at all, even though that document now exists in iCloud?

So, I need to purchase Pages for both iOS and Mac ($30 in total) to sync my iCloud TextEdit/RTF documents?

And that doesn't even count the inconvenience of switching from TextEdit to Pages, which is not something I want to do (I love the lightweight nature of TextEdit).

Am I missing something here?
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I think you got it covered.
 
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illegalprelude said:
Yes but the problem as the person stated is that you can from the DropBox app open a document to Pages on iOS. But from Pages, you can't say save to DropBox. Thus, the link is broken and you have to deal with emailing etc. etc.
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Dropbox is just a folder on your hard drive on Mac. I store all my Documents in a folder on my Dropbox. There's no extra uploading or emailing, when I save, Dropbox automatically uploads it to their servers and I can access it from any of my devices. There's also a number of apps that support Dropbox for editing documents on iOS (like PlaineText) so you don't even need the Dropbox app on iOS if you don't want it. It works just like iCloud.

Otherwise, pony up the money for Pages.
 
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Jensen G

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I may just use Evernote for my random jottings since I already have that setup on my Mac/iOS devices and it's free. The only issue with that is that once you start putting rich text (bolding, bulleted lists, etc) in there, aggravating stuff starts happening to the text formatting, but it's a free and otherwise robust system.
 
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tarryweather

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illegalprelude said:
Yes but the problem as the person stated is that you can from the DropBox app open a document to Pages on iOS. But from Pages, you can't say save to DropBox. Thus, the link is broken and you have to deal with emailing etc. etc.
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But wasn't he talking about TextEdit, not Pages?
 
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Mustard Seed

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I do have Pages, but that's not really a solution. This seems a rather half-baked implementation on Apple's part. Isn't iCloud support supposed to enable your content on all your devices?

It really does suggest that Textedit is either coming to iOS, or Pages will soon be able to open Textedit docs in iCloud.

GekkePrutser said:
He means save it in Pages for Mac first. Only works if you've bought that, of course.
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