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Inkling on your phone

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Open Inkling in your phone’s browser: the same answers, with a tab bar along the bottom and the follow-up box at the foot of a discussion.

Before you start

Sign in with the same email and password you use on a computer. Your discussions, notes and allowances are the same everywhere.

Get around

On a narrow screen the header keeps the Inkling mark, the theme button and the account menu, and a tab bar along the bottom takes over from the header’s links:

  • signed in: Ask, Translate, Notes, Discussions, Pro
  • signed out: Ask, Translate, Discussions, Pro

Pro shows what each plan includes. Settings, Shared pages and Sign out are in the account menu.

Inkling’s home page on a phone, signed in: “Good afternoon, Elena.”, the ask box, starter questions and the tab bar.
Screen from the appThe home page and the tab bar

Ask and read answers

  • In a discussion, the tab bar gives way to the follow-up box, “Ask a follow-up in this discussion”, which stays at the foot of the screen. The Inkling mark at the top takes you home.
  • The sources are listed under the answer rather than beside it.
  • A research report’s Contents folds into a single line above the answer. Tap it to open the list.
  • Save to note opens as a sheet from the bottom of the screen.
A direct answer on a phone: the question, the two-line answer, the note that nothing was searched with Search anyway, and the follow-up box at the foot of the screen.
Screen from the appA discussion on a phone, with the follow-up box docked

Notes on a phone

  • In a note, the bar at the foot reads Sources 4 · Inkling, with the note’s own count of sources. Tap it to open Sources in this note and the Inkling column as a sheet.
  • While you write, a toolbar docks above the keyboard with the line type, formatting, Link, Cite and Ask Inkling.
  • On the Todos page, Hand to Inkling and each row’s other actions are always shown, since there is no hover on a touch screen.

Translate on a phone

  • Type in the box at the foot of the screen, “Type, paste, or attach a file”. There Enter translates and ShiftEnter starts a new line.
  • The original and the translation are stacked rather than side by side.
  • On Pro, a translated document’s result has Show original, which opens the source text under the translation, and Check these, with how many there are, such as Check these (5), which folds the list of things to check.

Where things are

On a wide screenOn a phone
Links in the headerThe tab bar
Sources beside the answerSources under the answer
Contents in the railContents folded above the answer
Sources in this note and Inkling beside the noteSources 4 · Inkling, as a sheet
A toolbar over your selectionA toolbar docked above the keyboard
Translate’s panes side by sideStacked, with the box at the foot

Good to know

  • Inkling’s layout is checked automatically at 390 px wide, a common phone width, in WebKit, the engine Safari uses. The checks fail if a page is wider than the screen or a control runs past its right edge.
  • The theme follows your phone’s light or dark setting until you choose one; see Display name and appearance.
  • Most of this also applies to a narrow browser window on a computer.