Phones

Use Fennick in your phone's browser.

Phone apps of their own are planned coming.

Add Fennick to your Home Screen

Signed in on an iPhone, Fennick works best opened from the Home Screen, like an app. Without signing in, fennick.app is a demo that keeps nothing, on the Home Screen too.

In a Safari tab, Safari can clear what Fennick keeps on the phone if you don't open it for a week. From the Home Screen, it stays.

1. Open Fennick in Safari.
2. Tap Share, then View More, then Add to Home Screen.
3. Check that Open as Web App is on. Tap Add.

Open Fennick from its Home Screen icon. It fills the screen, with no Safari bars.

The Home Screen Fennick keeps its own sign-in, apart from Safari's:

• Sign in there too. Use the 6-digit code from the email: its link opens Safari, not the Home Screen app. See If you already have an account.
• Opened from there, Fennick shows the keyboard bar while you type.

The bars

On a page, round buttons float over the page, as in Apple's own apps.

• At the top left, Back. Beside it, the page's tags (on a day, a calendar button that picks a date). Two fit, then “+1” (or more). Tap a tag to open it; tap “+1” for a list of the rest.
• At the top right, one group: the fields button (only when the page has fields), Share and ⋯. Share opens the phone's share sheet with the page's link. Where there is no share sheet, it copies the link.
• At the bottom: the sidebar, Search and New page. While you type, the keyboard bar takes their place.
• When midnight passes while you write on a day, a It's Tue › button (with the new day's name) shows at the top. Tap it to open the new day.

The ⋯ menu

On a phone, ⋯ opens the whole page menu under the button, as Apple's own menus do. Its parts, from the top:

• Three buttons side by side: Star (or Unstar), Duplicate and Copy link. A date page has no Duplicate.
• Open pages, with how many, and Right panel.
• Add icon, Add cover and Add tag (Change icon, Change cover when it has one). On a computer these sit over the title.
• Move to… (not on a date page).
• View as, Full width, Fields (when the page has fields) and Show who wrote what. A row with a › opens its choices in the same place.
• Find on Page, Page history and Export as Markdown.
• Move to Trash (not on a date page).

At its foot: who edited the page last, when, and how many words it has.

Open pages lists the pages you have open, with a tick on this one. Tap one to go there. Under them: New tab, and Close this tab when more than one is open.

Right panel slides the right panel over the page, with its views as icons in a row at its top. Back, or a tap beside it, closes it.

The other screens (a tag's page, Tasks, Library, Tags, Settings, the Op Log, Trash and Calendar) have the same Back and the same bottom bar. At their top right, a round button with a number shows how many pages are open. Tap it to see them. In a section of Settings, Back goes back to Settings.

Sheets

Menus and pickers on a phone open as sheets from the bottom of the screen, as in Apple's own apps: the menu of a block (Aa), a field's value and its date picker, the date menu, Open pages and Add a field. The short bar at the top is the grabber, and the sheet's name is in the middle of its top row.

• A short sheet is as tall as its rows. A long one opens halfway up. Tap the grabber, or drag it up, to see all of it.
• Drag the grabber down to make a tall sheet half height, then to close it.
• Back closes a sheet and leaves the page where it was.
• While the keyboard is up, a sheet sits just above it.

A page's fields

The fields button steps a page's fields through three ways: Open (every field, one row each), Inline (one block under the title, “3 more” for the rest) and Hidden. Hold it to pick one. Each page remembers its choice, on every device.

The keyboard bar

Opened from the Home Screen, Fennick shows a bar on top of the keyboard while you type. In a Safari tab there is no bar, so the space above the keyboard stays clear.

The bar hides while the / list is open. Indent and outdent do nothing on an entity pasted or placed on the page (it is the same entity in each place it shows); change it on its own page.

Typing a number

A phone's number keys have no minus. While you type a number in a field (in its row, in a table cell or in a value box), a small bar above the keyboard holds +/−: tap it to make the number negative, or positive again. On an empty box it puts “-” first. This bar shows in a Safari tab too. ⌄ hides the keyboard.

Typing on a phone

• The block you are typing in has a soft background.
• Menus (/, @, #) open next to the block, in the part of the screen the keyboard leaves free.
• The page scrolls so the block you are typing in stays above the keyboard.

Search on a phone

Tap Search in the bottom bar. The search opens with the keyboard up. Its box sits right above the keyboard, with a round × beside it that closes the search; the results fill the screen above it.

Before you type, it shows the pages you opened lately (under Today, Past week, Past 30 days and Earlier), then the actions. New page, Add to today (Quick capture on today), Go to today, Undo, Redo and Settings come first. Type to find pages, entities, days, blocks and actions, as in the command menu.

Search in the sidebar, or a tap with two fingers, opens the same search.

While you type, Undo and Redo are on the keyboard bar. Back is at the top left; hold it for Forward.

Back and page history

Hold Back at the top left to see the pages you came through, and above them the pages you went back from. Tap one to go straight there.

On a phone the path above a page keeps its last two steps; a … stands for the rest. Tap the … to go up one step. Hold it to see every step it stands for (the year, the quarter…), and tap one to open it.

Links on a phone

A tap on a mention or a reference goes straight to its page. Back takes you to the same spot. There is no hover peek on a phone; the peek is for computers.

A tap on a web link opens it in a new tab. Hold a link in a block for a menu: Open, Copy link (for a web address) and Edit link (where you can edit the block).

Styling words

Touch and hold a word to select it, whether or not you are typing, then drag the phone's own handles to take in more. A block's menu is a touch and hold on its bullet, never on its words.

In Fennick opened from the Home Screen, the keyboard bar shows the tools for the words you selected, where the phone's own menu never covers them:

A highlight's sheet

Tap a highlight's words while the keyboard is down, and its sheet opens from the bottom of the screen, its words kept in sight above it. While you type, put the caret in its words and tap Highlight, first in the keyboard bar in the highlight's color.

• Note: your note on it. More than one block of notes is on its page.
• About: what it is about. What it's About has a ✓; tap another to add it, or a ticked one to take it off. Type to find any page or entity; highlights come last.
• Its color: tap one of the ten.
• Open highlight goes to its page, with all its fields. Remove highlight takes it off its words.
• ✓, or a tap above the sheet, closes it.

In a Safari tab, Fennick's toolbar shows below the words instead; hold its highlight button to highlight and write a note.

To highlight in a color, tap Aa on the keyboard bar, then Highlight, and pick one. It colors the words you selected, or the whole block when none are.

The sidebar

On a narrow screen the sidebar hides. Tap the menu button at the bottom left, on any screen, to show it. Tap outside it to close it. A dot on the menu button means a new version of Fennick is ready; the row at the top of the sidebar says so.

Pick blocks

Pick whole blocks to change, move, copy or delete them together.

1. Swipe sideways across a block. It is picked: circles show beside the blocks, and a bar appears at the bottom of the screen.
2. To pick the blocks below too, keep your finger going down.
3. Tap a block to add it, or tap a picked block to drop it. Drop the last one and picking stops.
4. Use the bar. Tap Done when you finish.

The bar shows how many blocks are picked, and these buttons:

Going to another page also stops picking.

Swipe a row in the Op Log or the Trash

In an Op Log sitting, swipe a change left for Undo this. In the Trash, swipe a row left for Restore and Delete. A tap anywhere else closes the row.

Swipe to indent

In the block you are typing in, swipe right quickly from its bullet, or from the margin beside it, to indent it. Swipe left to outdent it. A swipe across its words never indents: the words are yours to select. (A swipe across a block you are not typing in picks it instead: see Pick blocks.)

On a phone, an outline goes five steps deep at most.