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Right now, tablets are mobile consumption devices. Great for reading, looking at comics, playing light games or watching a movie. Obviously, a lot of people are

Right now, tablets are mobile consumption devices. Great for reading, looking at comics, playing light games or watching a movie. Obviously, a lot of people aren't really leaving their house so the tablet use case is a bit moot.. But if you are in the habit of popping to the coffee shop or trying to make use of your time on the train or an airplane, they're pretty handy. Sure, you can bring a whole laptop, but that's just larger and takes up more room. The tablet is easy to slip in and out of a bag and have it on instantly. In theory, tablets should be good for light work too. Note taking, drawing and sketching, etc. In practice, neither ecosystem supports this very well - you can take a note or make a drawing, but you can't _do_ anything with the output. There's no sending your diagram to a pc for meaningful usage or integrating your note with your actual knowledgebase. The tablets are too locked down.

pjmlp 5y ago
Or just bring a 13 inch hybrid laptop (2-1).
jitl 5y ago
I know more tablet owners who do at least half of their work on their tablet, than I know tablet owners that only use tablets for entertainment/“consumption”. Some examples: (1) a VP of Engineering, (2) a designer/creative software engineer, (3) a teacher, (4) a documentary film maker. > There's no sending your diagram to a pc for meaningful usage This is two taps on iPad in most apps: tap share, then tap the Airdrop icon for your laptop or other device. > integrating your note with your actual knowledgebase Notion, Quip, Google Docs, Coda, Microsoft Office all run fine on iPad.
- vorpalhex 5y ago
  Sharing actions are limited. It depends on output and not all apps share well. Sharing is also 1:1. There is no "master these pages and share out a few pages". On notes: 1. Notion doesn't have offline support, mobile exports don't work last I tried, no printing or sharing. Notion is block based, making it not appropriate for notes. 2. Quip is just a bad app. It's also a block based editor, and an office suite, making it inappropriate for notes. 3. Google docs is a word processor/office suite, not a note taking app. It has severe, severe lag past about 30 or 40 pages which renders it unusable. It has very broken behavior when you paste formatted text. 4. No experience with coda 5. Microsoft office is an office suite. It has the same general problems as Google Docs. A note taking app, must: + Flow text correctly (not block based) + Handle copying and pasting correctly without barfing my formatting + Work offline. My notes are not useful if I can only get to them when I have internet. + Not be a word processor. Word processors are designed to format documents, not capture information quickly. Using a word proccessor for notes is like using the photoshop text tool to write essays. + It should handle and operate on a directory of files. I do not have one note. I have several hundred. Even a modest project is going to have a few note files. + It should load instantly and have no lag.The tradeoff is that you get less features. Examples of note taking apps on the iPad are Bear, Notes, Obsidian, and I think Joplin has a port.

pjmlp 5y ago

Or just bring a 13 inch hybrid laptop (2-1).

jitl 5y ago

I know more tablet owners who do at least half of their work on their tablet, than I know tablet owners that only use tablets for entertainment/“consumption”. Some examples: (1) a VP of Engineering, (2) a designer/creative software engineer, (3) a teacher, (4) a documentary film maker. > There's no sending your diagram to a pc for meaningful usage This is two taps on iPad in most apps: tap share, then tap the Airdrop icon for your laptop or other device. > integrating your note with your actual knowledgebase Notion, Quip, Google Docs, Coda, Microsoft Office all run fine on iPad.

vorpalhex 5y ago
Sharing actions are limited. It depends on output and not all apps share well. Sharing is also 1:1. There is no "master these pages and share out a few pages". On notes: 1. Notion doesn't have offline support, mobile exports don't work last I tried, no printing or sharing. Notion is block based, making it not appropriate for notes. 2. Quip is just a bad app. It's also a block based editor, and an office suite, making it inappropriate for notes. 3. Google docs is a word processor/office suite, not a note taking app. It has severe, severe lag past about 30 or 40 pages which renders it unusable. It has very broken behavior when you paste formatted text. 4. No experience with coda 5. Microsoft office is an office suite. It has the same general problems as Google Docs. A note taking app, must: + Flow text correctly (not block based) + Handle copying and pasting correctly without barfing my formatting + Work offline. My notes are not useful if I can only get to them when I have internet. + Not be a word processor. Word processors are designed to format documents, not capture information quickly. Using a word proccessor for notes is like using the photoshop text tool to write essays. + It should handle and operate on a directory of files. I do not have one note. I have several hundred. Even a modest project is going to have a few note files. + It should load instantly and have no lag.The tradeoff is that you get less features. Examples of note taking apps on the iPad are Bear, Notes, Obsidian, and I think Joplin has a port.