The Writing Desk app for iPhone and iPad is the best way to read and review your manuscript on the go. Everything you add comes back into Writing Desk on your Mac, ready for you to accept or reject.
1. Get the app and sync your book
- Download Writing Desk: Novelist App and sign in with your Writing Desk account.
- On your Mac, open the book and click the cloud icon beside the file name to switch sync on.
2. Read, comment and edit
Open the book on the Manuscripts tab. As you read, you can:
- leave a comment on any passage, for a note to your future self
- edit the text, and your changes are tracked as suggestions
It all works offline and syncs when you reconnect.
3. Review everything on your Mac
Next time you open the project in Writing Desk, your comments and suggestions are there automatically.
- Click the comments icon in the toolbar. The badge beside it shows how many are waiting.
- For each suggestion, choose to accept and apply it to your text, or reject it.
- Resolve comments as you deal with them.
Using the Formatter in a phone browser
The Formatter still opens in any browser, and you can leave comments and suggest edits there. Typesetting and exporting need room to see your pages, so use the Formatter on a computer for those.