I sometimes have occasion to read lengthy text (e.g. dumped from clipboard) in Drafts.
Can anyone suggest how to do this most comfortably? Is there a way to temporarily remove editability, hide menus, etc?
I’m guessing the best approach would be to share the text out of Drafts and into some reader app. That’s fine, but I don’t want to have to convert text to PDF, have it be auto-added to some library/queue, etc. This is just for quickie on-the-fly reading…though preferably more ergonomically than in the vanilla Drafts presentation.
Does Drafts have a “display” or “reader” mode I’m not aware of? I doubt it; it’s not really what it’s for, I know…
Selecting this action from your sidebar will then present just the text in a preview window, in this case with a small font and font size selector in the bottom right corner.
FWIW, since starting this thread, I’ve become a fan of Matter app (basically an updated, improved Instapaper), and use it for all extended reading, even super temporary stuff.
So rather than dump lengthy text into Drafts, I dump it into email, send to Matter, and it adds to my queue in that app.
I hadn’t noticed that the thread was from last year… it showed up as new! Perhaps my being on iOS 17 beta has reset some of the read/unread settings for me on the forum (not a complaint, just hypothesising).
Glad you have found a workflow that works for you.