Continuous view
Manuscript pages open one at a time, so moving on to the next chapter means picking it in the sidebar again, and each time the reading breaks off. Continuous view joins a manuscript's pages in reading order, so you scroll straight down the manuscript like a book and fix whatever catches your eye right where it is.
Say you keep scrolling at the end of chapter 03: the opening of chapter 04 follows below a dashed line, and you can read in one go whether the two chapters fit together.
Turning on continuous view
- Open a manuscript page.
- Press Continuous view, the third button in the bar under the editor.
- The pages before and after it in the same manuscript join up in reading order, with a dashed line between pages.
Press the same button again to turn it off.
To always write in continuous view, turn on Continuous view in Settings > Editor. Every editor pane then opens in continuous view.
Seeing which chapter you're in
Scroll past a dashed line and the header's number and name, the character count, the sidebar highlight, and the page the chat sends all switch to that page. Cross the line from chapter 03 and they all point to 04, so you always know which chapter you're reading.
Jumping to the next or previous page
- ‹ › in the header take you to the top of the previous or next page.
- ↓ on the last line goes to the start of the next page; ↑ on the first line goes to the end of the previous one.
Editing as you read
The pages run together on screen, but each is still its own page. Clicking another page only moves the cursor there, and each page saves its changes on its own.
⌘Z undoes only the page with the cursor.
- Continuous view is for manuscript pages only; document pages don't have it.
- On a phone, the same switch is in the ⋯ under Tools.
- A pane you turned on with the button under the editor also shows as on in the Continuous view setting.
- Each pane remembers continuous view on its own, so with Split view one side can run the pages together while the other shows a single page.
- While the page with your cursor is on screen, it stays the current page.
- A drag selection stays within the page it started in.