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Compare side by side
A take can read well alone and badly in the whole piece. Read the whole piece twice, side by side, with a different take in the second copy.
- Put the caret in a take.
- Press ⇧⌘\.
- Read each copy to the end.
The first copy is the draft as it reads. The second has another take in its place.
The frost came overnight, without ceremonyin the night, quiet as a debt being collected. By morning the beds were silveredstiff and shininggone grey, and the last of the tomatoes had surrendered on the vine.
Mara walked the rows with her coffee going cold, counting what the cold had takenspared — less than she fearedmore than she hoped, if she was honest. The kale, of course, looked delighted.
She went in for her gloves.
She stood a while longer, breath and coffee steaming together.
The garden could wait; the frost could not.
The frost came overnight, without ceremonyin the night, quiet as a debt being collected. By morning the beds were silveredstiff and shininggone grey, and the last of the tomatoes had surrendered on the vine.
Mara walked the rows with her coffee going cold, counting what the cold had takenspared — less than she fearedmore than she hoped, if she was honest. The kale, of course, looked delighted.
She went in for her gloves.
She stood a while longer, breath and coffee steaming together.
The garden could wait; the frost could not.
- ⌥⌘→ and ⌥⌘← step the second copy through the other takes.
- ⌘↩ chooses the take in the second copy. The draft takes it, and the second copy closes.
- ⇧⌘\ again closes it without choosing.
Changed your mind? Edit ▸ Undo ⌘Z.
From the stack, ⇧⌘\ switches to side by side, and ⌘\ switches back.
Edit either copy
Both copies are editable. Click into either one and keep writing. What you write in the second copy goes into the take it shows.