Mobile Preview

DocuShark is built desktop-first, but it includes an early, experimental layout for phones and other narrow touch devices. It's genuinely useful for quick edits and reviewing documents on the go — just not yet a full replacement for the desktop experience.

Opting in

The first time you open DocuShark on a touch device at a narrow screen width, you'll see a one-time prompt: Mobile preview (experimental). Accepting switches you to the compact, touch-adapted layout; choosing Not now keeps the desktop layout and simply asks again next time.

The prompt only appears on an actual touch device at a narrow viewport — resizing a desktop browser window doesn't trigger it.

Switching back

If you've accepted mobile preview and want the desktop layout instead, go to Settings → Appearance → Mobile preview and turn it off. This is a durable setting — DocuShark will always use the desktop layout for you from then on, even on a phone, until you turn it back on.

Your library on a phone

The Documents home fits a narrow screen whether or not mobile preview is on:

Each list row is two lines: the document's name, then where it lives, when it last changed and its size. In a wide window these are columns, along with who's on each document; on a phone, switch to the grid view to see that.
The header is two rows. The first holds the title and View options: list or grid, sort order, grouping, and refresh. The second holds search and New, and the arrow beside New also has Import a document….
Your collections, Trash and storage are in the menu at the top left.

On a touch screen nothing waits for a pointer to hover. Each document's ⋯ button is always showing, and the actions a mouse finds on the row itself (Move to Cloud, Move to personal, Move to Trash) are in that menu instead. To pick several documents, choose Select from one document's menu, then tap the others; the bar at the top of the list has the actions for all of them.

With mobile preview on, menus open as sheets from the bottom of the screen, with room for a finger on every choice. Tap outside a sheet, or swipe it down, to close it.

Writing on a phone

With mobile preview on, a writing bar sits at the bottom of a prose page, above the keyboard. Swipe it sideways for more:

Undo and Redo, since a phone keyboard has no shortcut for them.
The text style (body text, headings, quote, code block), with the current one named on the button.
Bold, italic, underline and strikethrough.
Bulleted, numbered and task lists. While you're in a list, Indent and Outdent nest items, which a keyboard does with Tab.
Link.

Format, at the end of the bar, opens every other formatting control, including the table tools while you're in a table. The document's name is at the top of the screen: tap it to rename the document or see whether it's saved. Tap anywhere on the page below your text to carry on writing at the end.

Pressing and holding text selects it as it does in any other app, with your phone's own handles and copy-and-paste bar; DocuShark opens no menu over it. Instead, the bar changes with what you're on:

A word underlined as misspelled: put the cursor in it and the bar offers corrections and Add to dictionary. Tap × to get the formatting controls back.
An image: tap it, or press and hold it, to select it. The bar offers Replace image… and Remove image, and in a gallery, buttons to move the image left or right.

A page mirrored from another tool, such as Notion, is read-only. Its bar says so and when it last synced, and offers Refresh, Open in the source, and Detach.

What to expect

Mobile preview is still early: expect some panels and workflows to feel tighter or less polished than on desktop. If something feels broken rather than just cramped, that's useful feedback — but it's not yet the primary way DocuShark is meant to be used.

Mobile Preview ​

Opting in ​

Switching back ​

Your library on a phone ​

Writing on a phone ​

What to expect ​

See also ​