iPhone and iPad

Charta for iPhone and iPad has the same editor as the Mac: WYSIWYG, code editor, preview, folders, links, graph and exports. The commands change, designed for touch.

Launch screen

At launch Charta shows your documents like the Files app, with two actions:

• New Document: a new Markdown file. Without iCloud it goes to the Charta folder in “On My iPhone” or “On My iPad”.
• Open Folder: picks a folder to open as a project. On iPad it opens in its own window (you can keep several side by side), on iPhone full screen.

.md files also open when you tap them in the Files app. In a document window, the Projects button opens projects and recent notes.

The toolbar

• the two-mode button, WYSIWYG and Code Editor;
• Aa: the Format menu, with styles, headings, lists, insert items and table commands;
• the eye, View menu: the preview layout (Editor Only, Editor and Preview, Preview Only), Synchronized Scrolling, Outline, the exports and Print…;
• in folders, Backlinks.

Settings is in a document’s toolbar menu and in a folder’s More (…) menu, next to Note Graph, New Folder and Sort By.

On iPhone the preview sits below the text, and the outline and backlinks open in a sheet; on iPad the preview sits beside the text and the sidebar stays alongside it.

Bar above the keyboard

While you type, the bar above the keyboard shows, from the left:

• Heading: a menu from Body Text to Heading 6;
• Bold, Italic, Bulleted List, Checklist, Link;
• Insert (+): link to a note, image, table, code block, formula, Mermaid diagram, footnote and divider;
• Edit Table: format, add and delete rows and columns, move rows and columns;
• Decrease Indent and Increase Indent;
• Hide Keyboard.

While you type a [[… link, the bar shows the matching notes instead (or headings, after #): tap one to complete the link.

With text selected, the edit menu also has Format (bold, italic, strikethrough, code, link); on a link there’s Open Link.

With a hardware keyboard

• ⌘ B, ⌘ I, ⌘ K: bold, italic, link;
• ⌘ E: WYSIWYG or code editor;
• Tab and ⇧ Tab: next and previous cell in tables, indentation in lists;
• in folders, ⌘ T for Go to Note and ⇧ ⌘ B for backlinks.

Hold ⌘ on iPad to see the list.

What’s Mac only