As a recent new iOS/iPadOS Drafts user, I’m very impressed with the power and convenience of the app. Nonetheless, there are some features or improvements I’d like to see considered for addition. Apologies if some of these already exist, or have been requested before.
1. Visibility options to distinguish iPad and iPhone
At present, action and action group platform visibilities distinguish between iOS and Mac, but they could be further refined to distinguish between iPhone and iPad as well. The three iOS visibility buttons for list, bar and search could be replaced by six buttons: three for iPhone and three for iPad.
This would allow different action group structures on the two devices, which would be useful because the very different keyboard widths mean there is much more space before you have to side-scroll the action bar on the iPad than there is on the iPhone.
2. Opening links to other drafts
There could be an option so that double-square-bracket wiki-links to drafts (etc) would only be opened when you click them if the keyboard is down, not while you are actively editing. At present, the links often activate when you want not to open them but to edit text at or near them.
3. Display draft title
On an iPad with a wide enough window in landscape mode, there is room to display at least the start of the title or first line of the draft at the top of the window, in the gap between the tag icon and the character and word counts. Perhaps this could be provided as an option. It would help as a confirmation of what draft you are currently working on.
4. Hide or change Preview button
The Preview button at the bottom of the iPad window is annoying when you are using Stage Manager, because every time you press it, a new Preview window opens, so if you already have the maximum four windows open, one of them at random is minimised, and then it’s a nuisance to get it back.
This can be avoided if instead you use one of the Preview actions in the Markdown group, which give a popup not a new window, but it’s easy to forget or to press the Preview button accidentally.
The button is already absent on iPhone. Could there be an option to hide it on iPad as well, or perhaps to make it use a popup instead of a new window?