Surprised no one has suggested this yet.
use the same file format as scrivener on the desktop (even if it doesn’t expose all the features, then use iCloud so we get transparent round-tripping with no fuss. no more dropbox fiddling.
Hell, I’d like that feature anyway just for between my desktop/laptop.
Keith’s latest thoughts on iCloud:
https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/icloud-support/16479/2
In summary, iCloud is unlikely to make it into the desktop in the immediate future, and unless Apple do something unexpected isn’t going to make it onto windows at all.
So while adding iCloud to the iOS version would be extremely easy on the iOS side there’s a lot more issues to consider.
Not least of which is ensuring that each platform supports concurrent editing.
Of course, like everything regarding the iOS version, nothing is written in stone though.
I have posted good things about iCloud on this forum. In most cases, it does seem that iCloud “just works.” Unfortunately, it’s not always the case. Today I worked on a file in Byword for Mac and saved it to iCloud. Later, I picked the iPad to keep working on the file. Byword for iOS could not see the file. I checked the Byword folder in my Mobile Documents folder on the Mac. The file was there, suggesting that it was also in the iCloud servers. Then I copied the file from the Byword folder in my Mobile Documents folder to my Dropbox folder on the Mac. I went back to the iPad and switched cloud service on Byword, from iCloud to Dropbox. And guess what? Miraculously Byword for iOS finally detected my file in Dropbox.
I repeated the whole thing with IA Writer. Got the same results. That file is invisible to IA Writer for iOS in iCloud but it is well visible and can be opened and I can work on its copy sitting on Dropbox.
It’d be great if iCloud would just work. Apparently, it doesn’t.
At the end of the day, iCloud is just another cloud-based sync solution and, although it can be very well integrated in Apple products, it still depends on the same factors as all sync solutions - upload time, download time, internet availability and so on and so forth.
That’s moot, though. The main problem with iCloud is that it is only available to Mac programs that are sold through the Mac App Store. That rules it out as a solution for the vast majority of our Mac users, who purchased Scrivener through our own store, and for all Windows users.
So, while iCloud may be considered in the future, it does not offer as broad a solution as Dropbox.
All the best,
Keith
Correct. Eventually that file appeared on iCloud, but it took hours. iCloud seems to have a lot more issues with intermittent service compared to other cloud services. The Apple forums are filled with users complaining about intermittent email access (me.com)
Good self control!!! 