![]() You don’t ever have to choose File → Save to make sure your recent work is safely saved - but you can. Slugline 2 is always automatically saving your work to the file as you write. If you save it to the special iCloud Drive Slugline folder created by Slugline for iOS/iPadOS, you’ll be able to open and edit it in Slugline on your iPhone or iPad. You can save your screenplay file anywhere on your Mac. We highly recommend that you do this initial save early in the writing process. It’s not until the first time you choose File → Save that Slugline prompts you for a name and location. You can create a new document without choosing a name or a location for saving your work. Slugline 2 on macOS follows the standard method of working with files on a Mac. If you want to “force” a save, simply exit back to the file browser. Slugline for iOS/iPadOS is always saving your work as you write. This way you don’t start writing without first establishing how and where your work will be saved. Slugline for iOS/iPadOS forces you to choose a file location and file name at the time you create the screenplay document. It syncs with your iCloud account, so files here will be available on a Mac that is logged in to the same Apple ID. This is the only iCloud location that Slugline for iOS/iPadOS can see. If you save your work in iCloud, Slugline creates a special Slugline folder in your iCloud Drive. With your creative work, two is one, and one is none. Use local files if you don’t care about sync, but do consider backing up your writing. ![]() iCloud is typically available to every Apple device, where Dropbox requires a separate Dropbox account. On iPhone and iPad, you can create new screenplays either in local storage on the device, or in one of two cloud-synced locations: iCloud Drive, or Dropbox. It’s helpful to understand a bit about how Slugline and your various devices work with these files. Each Slugline screenplay document is a file saved in at least one place on your Mac, iPhone, or iPad.
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