6 ms·
I was a life long pen and paper freak for all of my notes for personal and professional life. My goto setup was the Pilot G2 0.38mm pen: https://www.officedepo
by dchuk 8y ago
I was a life long pen and paper freak for all of my notes for personal and professional life.
My goto setup was the Pilot G2 0.38mm pen: https://www.officedepot.com/a/products/527870/Pilot-G-2-Retractable-Gel-Pens/ https://www.officedepot.com/a/products/527870/Pilot-G-2-Retr...
And the Leuchterm 1917 dotted notebook: https://www.leuchtturm1917.us/notebook-medium-a5-hardcover-249-numbered-pages.html https://www.leuchtturm1917.us/notebook-medium-a5-hardcover-2...
The pens have perfect flow, and are thin in stroke for precision work. The paper has a nice texture to it, not rough but not slick.
For quick work, I'd grab sharpies and computer paper, for stuff like quick UI sketches/rapid note taking.
But as of April this year, I've switched to the 2018 iPad and an Apple Pencil and have completely dropped using paper. Being able to find all of my notes on both my ipad and my computer, sketch things up when I'm traveling and send it to my coworkers quickly, and also have all my books and media all in one simple device is just a dream. And in iOS 12, the Notes app is actually pretty great.
It's also a great setup for sketching up ideas to then toss on an Apple TV to share with my team before investing time into making a polished version of something. Idea to presentation in minutes is just awesome.
My only two complaints:
1) the body of the apple pencil is shitty. It's slick and round, I'd prefer a hexagonal body with a textured finger pad and a nice textured surface. This has annoyed me enough to the point that I've actually looked into how to make an alternative barrel for the pencils.
2) I take all of my notes in outline form. I would LOVE an app that captures handwritten notes in outline form, but then adds interactivity like collapsing/handwriting to text conversion/etc while preserving all the format. I realize that's a hard problem to solve, but I'm hoping in a few years machine learning will catch up.
- benjaminjackman 8y agoI just made a practically identical switch (down to even the 0.38mm g-2 pens). What apps have you been using on iPad for note taking? I have tried several and haven't found anything that would fit what I am looking for. The best I have found is Good Notes.
- benjaminjackman 8y agoEdit: I forgot to mention In terms of the Apple Pencil body being too slick, I picked this up on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01LY38UE5/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1 https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01LY38UE5/ref=oh_aui_sear... It's not quite perfect but it's a lot better than vanilla and has a magnet that attached it to the iPad as well.
- dchuk 8y agoNice, I've almost ordered one of those in the past. My idea was to actually remove the original body of the pencil and have a better one 3d printed for it. The cost/effort is probably completely not worth it, but it does look feasible per the teardown looking fairly straight forward.
- jonnybgood 8y agoI use Notability especially since the latest major update to add OCR to handwriting.
- dchuk 8y agoHow well does it work? Could it preserve indentation during conversion?
- dchuk 8y agoI used Good Notes for a while, and it is a great app. However, I tossed the iOS 12 beta on a few weeks back and the updates to Apple Notes makes the pencil a lot better, you get stroke and color controls finally. Since it integrates so well with the desktop version of Notes, made it a no brainer for me.
- bagsvaerd70 8y ago> I would LOVE an app that captures handwritten notes in outline form Some form of org-mode notation plus handwritten notes would be a killer app.