Now that iPadOS 26 is out, I’d like to be able to use Scrivener in a window so I can also have a web browser up on the same screen without losing the ability to see the Binder. I often use the Quick Reference feature to review other scenes in my book while I’m writing new ones.
I’d very much like to be able to scale the whole Scrivener UI down so I can fit the essential features on screen. Failing that, scaling the text without changing the font style itself would be wonderful. I also use the Mac version of Scrivener when I’m at home, and keep my docs in synch with Dropbox. Great workflow but I’m feeling a bit cramped on the iPad. (I know, I could use my MacBook, but sometimes I just want to take the iPad.)
While I’m at it, I’d love to be able to relocate the binder to the top of the window on the iPad, not just the side. Frankly I’d really just like to have the same split-pane feature in the desktop version of the app. Thanks for the consideration.
I’m kind of thoughtful, not about your desire exactly, but about some of the ways you think it might be provided.
What, for example, do you mean about font scaling – to make larger, or smaller? Larger you’d see less content, smaller will soon get to be problematic to read, no?
With the small screen of an iPad, the advantage in windowing seems mainly in its ability to overlap them. In this way, you can have nearly full screen (or that by clicking a button; ;have you tried the mac-like buttons?) on each app. So you can use your browser comfortably, and switch with a tap to Scrivener in its full abilities to paste in or respond with your own imagination.
At least this is how I’m seeing it, and feels pretty comfortable…
True, but the quick reference panel and the editor panel are linked, which means they both scale at the same time to the same font size. I’d like to be able to scale them independently. I also don’t seem to have direct control over the gutter size, though it grows and shrinks as I resize the text with the pinch-and-zoom gesture. I’d like to be able to fix the width of the gutter in the main editor. It does seem to be fixed in the quick reference panel. Since screen real estate on the iPad is a scarce resource, I want to be able to reclaim as much of it as possible to get more content on screen.
I normally write on a 27” 5K display (two of them, actually) so the iPad is a big jump down for me. I want to be able to tile the windows side by side with as little “chrome” (that is, space taken up by the UI) between them as possible. I usually have a dictionary / thesaurus app in the lower right, and the wiki for my book (a complex science fiction novel) at upper right. Overlapping the windows isn’t important for me at all.
Well, I understand that kind of layout on sizable displays.
The question I’m raising is whether you’ve imagined how cramped it would make each pane (and/or the unreadable font shrinkage), if you were to try this on the small iPad view?
Thus the suggestion you dismiss perhaps too quickly, to learn how easy it is to two between overlapping windows. An older skill?
I’m fine with the smaller text. My use of computers long pre-dates GUIs, so I’m perfectly happy with multiple windows. I don’t think Scrivener can create more than one on the iPad, so that’s why I’m asking to be able to reduce or eliminate the wasted gutters around the text, scale the text in the quick reference tab and the main editor independently, etc. Maybe it’s too early in the lifecycle of multiple window support on iPadOS to be asking for that.