It’s this pencil thing, though, that attracts me, and however frustrating iOS can be, this really is (as someone said above) what a tablet ought to be like. As for iOS, it is a major annoyance, because it always seems to lack something I need when I am working on it. I wasn’t originally planning to upgrade, as I am quite pleased with my Air 2, but I’ve never been completely satisfied with the stylus situation (my favorite has been Adonit, but even it is a little troublesome, and the battery is a pain in the neck). I do a lot of writing (on paper) and a lot of marking up PDFs (grading papers, annotating books, commenting on the work of colleagues, etc.) and that pencil immediately won me over. I’m pretty sure I’ll be upgrading from the Air 2 to this. And did I say how great that pencil works!!Ī colleague just showed me his 9.7 iPad Pro with the pencil. I must say, this is heaven! That pencil works flawlessly and the keyboard is very handy when needed. Two weeks ago I got the iPad Pro (Jr.) with Apple Pencil and the matching Apple keyboard. I was never satisfied with any of the configurations. I also bought/tried several “pens”, some with Bluetooth advanced features and some without. Korm, I’ve used an iPad Air with a Bluetooth Apple keyboard. The above has certainly brought my personal use of the Pencil into much sharper focus (and since this will work with all stylii), figured I would mention it here, to “pay something forward”! Hope this will add something to the above discussion. I’m not at all affiliated to the app, which I mention because I realise I might be sounding like a bit of an evangelist! But since its free, my recommendation also won’t be costing anyone anything! As mentioned, it does have a few bugs/ quirks, but also includes very nice editing options for erasing/joining/inserting spaces, that are invoked using the Pencil. A further bonus, is multiple language-dictionary support, which means I can type replies inside Outlook / Spark in my 1st language - but if needs be - switch to “writing”, to quickly respond in my 2nd language (which is only supported on the iPad as a “system” language, not as a “keyboard” language)! The keyboard is “replaced” with a blank, text input area, where you can simply start writing with the Pencil / Stylus, and see how it’s instantly converted to text. So, in Notability, or Safari, or Notes, or in Tapatalk, or Outlook, or Spark - or wherever - you simply hit the “globe” button, and cycle through your installed keyboards, until you select the MyScript Stylus keyboard is selected - and then the magic happens: The key is that a.) it’s writing-to-text engine is SERIOUSLY good (even with my left-handed spider-scrawl!), and b.) it’s a “keyboard”, which means (after setting it up in the iPad settings) that it is “active”, wherever you might ordinarily type. But that really is a small gripe - this app is quite simply amazing, and I would recommend it to anyone who is serious about writing on the iPad! Granted, it has a few bugs that occasionally crop up when you leave it mid-sentence, to (for example) jump into another app - but I’m getting used to those, and am now simply finishing what I start, before jumping away. I’ve been using it the past several days, and I am beyond impressed. Rather, I’m writing this reply, using my Apple pencil, and a FREE writing keyboard app called MyScript Stylus, which came via a recommendation over at an iPad note taking thread on. I’m replying to this, using my iPad Pro, and my Apple Pencil. I make notes in a very graphical way, with drawings, arrows, lines, and embellishments going all of the page – handwriting recognization makes a useless hash of that kind of page. I’ve played with lots of handwriting recognition apps on iOS and never found one that both felt comfortable (it’s not an easy method of taking notes) and could recognize handwriting with more than 95% accuracy. ZoomNotes is available on OS X, but don’t bother, IMO. I’m using an iPad Pro with the Apple Pencil – cannot be beat for annotation and note taking. A typical use case is to open a PDF from DEVONthink to Go into ZoomNotes, and mark it up during meetings. On iOS – I’m currently using ZoomNotes mainly (wonderful but weird), or Note Taker HD occasionally (less wonderful and more weird). (Scanner Pro is the best iOS scanner I’ve found, after testing most of them.) But I rarely do that. I occasional use Scanner Pro to capture pages. For a while I used a Livescribe to get those into PDFs, but their product line went off in a direction that I was not interested in. I keep extensive handwritten notes in paper notebooks. Anything I do there with handwriting ends up back in DEVONthink on the desktop one way or another.Īre you thinking of capturing handwritten notes made on another medium (paper), or handwriting notes in an iOS app, or handwriting recognition of either of the first two?
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