FAQ

What's ruff?
It's your pocket-sized best friend that aims to make writing on the go fun, and sharing it fast & easy.

How does it work?
It's a single sheet of text with your progress automatically saved and restored between sessions — no file management to worry about here! You can set aside (aka stash) text to come back to later via a left swipe. Or you can pass it on (aka share) via the FAB.

How do I access my stashed text?
Drag the Status Bar by its handlebar all the way up and tap on any to fetch (you can copy it to your clipboard or share it with another app from here too). Keep in mind, when you fetch text, it writes over your active text. Make it a habit to stash anything you want to keep before you do any fetching (you can always undo a fetch in case of a slip).

What comes with an upgrade to ruff+?
It unleashes the following:

• Gain full screen estate by removing ads
• Stash as much text as you like (as opposed to the basic five)
• Read the entire content of your text from your home screen widget (it's a full screen preview on the basic widget)

Oh and you make an indie developer and their digital pup happy!

What about your privacy policy?
Simple — neither of us store any user data whatsoever.

Do you offer cloud backup?
Not personally, but Android does preserve app data by uploading it to your Google Drive where it's protected by your Google account's credentials. Although the amount of data is limited to 25mb, it should be more than enough to accommodate all your text.

Please note that automatic backups (if on) occur at irregular intervals, and the most reliable way to ensure your data is up-to-date is to manually backup:

1. Open Drive
2. Go into Settings
3. (Auto-backup for apps) Backup and reset
4. [Back up now] (note: this initiates a full system backup as there's no way, that I'm aware of anyway, to restrict this to a single app)

To check when your last ruff backup occurred, go to (Active backups) App Data and scroll to ruff.

If you're temporarily uninstalling ruff, please remember to backup right before and ensure the "Automatic restore" of apps (on Drive's "App data" screen) is on so that all your data is restored on the new install.

What about sync?
All your text and settings should move across with you as you jump between Android (and Chrome OS) devices. There's however currently no syncing available between the Android and Windows versions of ruff.

How can I support the app's development?
Thanks for asking! You can by:

• Upgrading to ruff+
• Reviewing ruff on Google Play
• Sharing w/ friends & family
• Downloading it on Windows
• Checking out the other Third Culture Apps: Appy Weather on Google Play and Appy Text on Windows 10

Any or as many of the above! 👍

Finally, teach me a few tricks.
With pleasure — woof!

• When at the top, fast swipe down to start typing from the bottom
• Inversely when at the bottom, fast swipe up to start typing from the top
• When the keyboard is up, fast swipe down to dismiss it
• Swipe right on the Toolbar for quick settings, and up for search
• Tap on the Status Bar's word count to move the cursor to the previous character, and on the char count for the next character
• When typing with the Status Bar visible, jump to the previous or next word, sentence and paragraph via x1, x2 & x3

That's a wrap — time for treats 🦴

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