Nice to see such hints of the valuable functionality. I'd love to be able to open 2 books side-by-side (or one-above-the-other) like that in Marvin. The handle with which you can at any time readjust the size of the two panes, is great. That's the flexibility users need. Kinda sad to see a Chinese app developer simulating what should be stock iOS functionality; but no, instead of improving iOS functionality, they focused on cosmetics in iOS 7, destroying the former nice look & feel. Displaying multiple apps simultaneously now comes standard in Samsung's flavour of Android, and is also standard for Windows 8.
Like you said, the text editing capabilities in Side by Side are slight, but the greatest deficiency to me is, those are only local text notes. If I could open two Dropbox TXT files side-by-side like that, and edit them, with changes being synced back to Dropbox... that would be useful. It appears, though, that you can only display Dropbox files side-by-side in Side by Side, not edit them.
As to Double Note, it looks nice as well, but no Dropbox support means I can't use it.
(Neither of the two apps makes it clear, I think, whether at least the text notes are synced across iDevices using iCloud. The trouble is, I also need them to be synced to my Windows machines, etc., for which Dropbox is ideal.)
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