Q&A
WEEKLY Q&A
Your weekly correspondence with the MacStories team.
Question: Is there any way I can mimic Evernote’s Presentation Mode? They recently removed this great feature. It basically spaced out your text and cleaned up your screen to easily view your note. I just purchased DEVONthink for iOS and I’d love to find a way to take a rich text note and clean it up. Any ideas? (Andrew, @andreweml)
Presentation Mode was a great feature on iOS, and I hope Evernote adds it back in the future. Unfortunately there’s no good way to replicate it using DEVONthink, but another app you may be interested in trying is Scrivener. It’s a rich-text editor that contains a wide array of options for formatting text, making it possible to closely duplicate the beautiful simplicity of Presentation Mode. There’s a setting for Text Width, where you can choose from Paperback, Page, Wide, and Full settings. When writing, you can select from a variety of Paragraph Format Presets to create different headings and other distinct categories of content. One of my favorite features is the way you can easily adjust text size using pinch-to-zoom anywhere on-screen, so you could keep text smaller while writing, then quickly blow it up for a nicer reading experience. These options, combined with a wealth of other settings available to tweak to your heart’s content, may be the closest you can get on iOS to recreating that Presentation Mode look.