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I use it every single day and it is the only reason I'm able to get anything done. I've taken paper notes my entire life, never referenced them once, I have 10'

by _smmt 4y ago

I use it every single day and it is the only reason I'm able to get anything done. I've taken paper notes my entire life, never referenced them once, I have 10's of notebooks all filled to the brim with unintelligible nonsense. Impossible and exhausting. On the iPad, I can fluidly take notes much quicker due to how fast I can edit, switch colors, erase, etc. And I don't end up with a monster stack of crappy notes. One of my main problems is I get ideas when I'm going to sleep, and so many times I've fumbled because I had the wrong notebook or no light or crap pencil etc. iPad I flick it open, click my shortcut to most recent note, sketch away, put it away. I use ProCreate, Goodnotes, Concepts (hate the subscription aspect) and Numbers daily. I've done more studying and better work in the past 2 months than I have in my entire life. For the first time I'm able to make meaningful progress in math. For the first time all of my finances and files and emails and communications are sorted and in order, and not only that, but they are pleasurable experiences now too because the UX is great. When I share ideas with people I can open Quicktime and pipe my iPad output to it and quickly illustrate ideas on the fly, use it as a wireless second monitor, etc. I see it as a replacement of the traditional assistant, previously secretary. Siri manages my meetings and emails and reminders, and the rest is just for supercharging my note-taking abilities. I'm not an apple guy at all, I'm a "don't want to spend 1 second on setup/messing with it" guy and don't care about much else. If Google came out with a suite that functioned better I'd switch yesterday. I've tried every note taking system under the sun. I spent 3 months in a basement inhaling org-mode. Nothing stuck. But I will say there was my life before the iPad, and my life after the iPad. It's a brilliant device. It saves me so, so much time.' There's really not much else to it besides it being a smooth and fast device that makes even the most mundane tasks like logging transactions somewhat fun.

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bergenty 4y ago
- MarcelOlsz 4y ago
  Damn, got me, I was sent by Big iPad! I took notes my whole life because I went to school a majority of my life - they just always sucked so I did poorly :) Notes help in understanding things but the part where I failed was not rewriting them combined with the fact that I have horrible chicken scratch.
- kaashif 4y ago
  This is sad, someone has an experience different from yours and you say "your story seems fake". At least accuse them of something that makes sense, like shilling iPads or something. You picked a part of the story that seems possibly realistic. When I was in school and university, I wrote notes all the time that I didn't reference, the act of writing things down helped me learn. Reading the notes back didn't really help me learn at all. Rewriting the notes, on the other hand, that really helped. I don't think writing notes on an iPad would really make any difference for me tbh, if I'm writing something to be referenced, typing it up is better. If I'm writing something not to be referenced, it barely even matters how I write it.
- hemantv 4y ago
  Because writing notes is about clarity of mind not always about referencing them later. I want ability to refer back to notes but 99% of case I never refer to them
- hitpointdrew 4y ago
  This is actually quite normal. Merely taking notes helps you remember things, so some people take notes simply to help them think through and remember things without ever having any intention of going back to those notes later. Simply the act of taking the notes is the means to the end.
naikrovek 4y ago
none of this is about the iPad pro, though, right? or maybe the submitter wasn't specifically asking about the Pro?
- goerz 4y ago
  I similarly use the iPad for handwritten notes. The 12.9” size is absolutely essential to me, and that’s only available in the Pro.
gernb 4y ago
That it works for you is great but I don't understand how it works for you. For me, I can't input fast on a tablet. Fighting with the on screen keyboard or using the (IMO, crappy magic keyboard) just doesn't compare speed wize to my MBP or MBA. I can open those and just as quickly be taking a note but I'll be done in a 1/10th the time and with zero frustration. Cut/Copy/Paste just work. If you saw a video how often that doesn't work for me on tablet you'd probably feel like the UX designers should be in prison for all the suffering they've put people through. I see that you use sketching apps, but you said below "I have horrible chicken scratch.", has iPad changed that? For my notes, I want to be able to search. I don't actually take many notes though. It mostly add to "todo" lists but not a ton (less than 1 time day) I've owned 3 iPads, most recently got one last January, with keyboard and pencil, but I probably used it less than 12hrs total. After it sat unused for 6+ months I ended up giving to my mom as an upgrade to her 2015 Air. She loves them but she's not trying to be productive. Just as another example, when someone messages me, if I'm near one of my computers, I reply on the computer because it has a keyboard. So much faster and less frustrating for me than trying to reply on a touch device.
- birdyrooster 4y ago
  Adobe Procreate is great on iPad.
  - switch007 4y ago
    Procreate isn’t Adobe just fyi
    - birdyrooster 4y ago
      lmao oops
- MarcelOlsz 4y ago
  >For me, I can't input fast on a tablet. Fighting with the on screen keyboard or using the (IMO, crappy magic keyboard) just doesn't compare speed wize to my MBP or MBA. I can open those and just as quickly be taking a note but I'll be done in a 1/10th the time and with zero frustration. I don't do anything on it that really requires the onscreen keyboard. If I use a keyboard on it, I do it pretty much only through "link mouse and keyboard" which works brilliantly. Because the keyboard sucks, how did it not come with split keyboard? >I can open those and just as quickly be taking a note but I'll be done in a 1/10th the time and with zero frustration. Right but text doesn't work for me at all. I get lost in a sea of indentation and end up 100 commits deep in a tool that will "finally indent everything for me correctly!!!" that of course I never use nor release. >Cut/Copy/Paste just work. If you saw a video how often that doesn't work for me on tablet you'd probably feel like the UX designers should be in prison for all the suffering they've put people through. I feel you there, luckily copy/paste between my Mac and iPad works perfectly, as I pretty much use it as a glorified note taking device rather than a computer. >I see that you use sketching apps, but you said below "I have horrible chicken scratch.", has iPad changed that? Yes. Not with the default screen. What changed it all was a matte screen protector. I find when I am zoomed in and using the right pencil, my natural writing is quicker than paper and much more legible. Maybe if I found the right gel-pen I'd get the same effect on paper? >For my notes, I want to be able to search. I don't actually take many notes though. It mostly add to "todo" lists but not a ton (less than 1 time day) What kind of stuff do you search? My notes mainly look like this [0] and I'm in goodnotes 99% of the time. If I need to more "free form" get ideas down I use concepts for its infinite canvas then bring it into goodnotes, or ProCreate. It truly is just a glorified note taker for me. Paper, but editable. Sits on my work desk most of the time, rarely used standalone so I agree with everything else that's wrong with it. The keyboard is garbage and it sucks as a computing device and theres roughly 100 other things I wish it did better, but it's so good at notes it's the easiest $1k I've ever spent after using my friends for 5 seconds. [0] https://i.imgur.com/mLdq6mf.jpg https://i.imgur.com/mLdq6mf.jpg (the writing is still quite terrible, so you can imagine what my paper notes look like)
hitpointdrew 4y ago
I don’t see anything you listed as requiring an iPad Pro. Most of what you mentioned revolved around note taking, which is a low cpu/gpu/memory task. You could easily do all those things on a iPad Air without stressing the device at all.
- Gigachad 4y ago
  The main feature is the bigger version which is the size of an A4 paper.
- MarcelOlsz 4y ago
  Yeah you're 100% right, it's just the one I have. I actually like smaller form factors better, I like panning with one finger.
andrei_says_ 4y ago
Do you take your notes in handwriting with the pencil? Do you have them converted to text or do you leave them handwritten?
- _smmt 4y ago
  I do them in handwriting. I never had a problem with the slow process of writing, my problem has always been with editing and manipulating which I can't do on paper. The matte screen protector with the pencil, zoomed in, helps me write super nicely.

by _smmt 4y ago

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bergenty 4y ago

MarcelOlsz 4y ago
Damn, got me, I was sent by Big iPad! I took notes my whole life because I went to school a majority of my life - they just always sucked so I did poorly :) Notes help in understanding things but the part where I failed was not rewriting them combined with the fact that I have horrible chicken scratch.
kaashif 4y ago
This is sad, someone has an experience different from yours and you say "your story seems fake". At least accuse them of something that makes sense, like shilling iPads or something. You picked a part of the story that seems possibly realistic. When I was in school and university, I wrote notes all the time that I didn't reference, the act of writing things down helped me learn. Reading the notes back didn't really help me learn at all. Rewriting the notes, on the other hand, that really helped. I don't think writing notes on an iPad would really make any difference for me tbh, if I'm writing something to be referenced, typing it up is better. If I'm writing something not to be referenced, it barely even matters how I write it.
hemantv 4y ago
Because writing notes is about clarity of mind not always about referencing them later. I want ability to refer back to notes but 99% of case I never refer to them
hitpointdrew 4y ago
This is actually quite normal. Merely taking notes helps you remember things, so some people take notes simply to help them think through and remember things without ever having any intention of going back to those notes later. Simply the act of taking the notes is the means to the end.

naikrovek 4y ago

none of this is about the iPad pro, though, right? or maybe the submitter wasn't specifically asking about the Pro?

goerz 4y ago
I similarly use the iPad for handwritten notes. The 12.9” size is absolutely essential to me, and that’s only available in the Pro.

gernb 4y ago

That it works for you is great but I don't understand how it works for you. For me, I can't input fast on a tablet. Fighting with the on screen keyboard or using the (IMO, crappy magic keyboard) just doesn't compare speed wize to my MBP or MBA. I can open those and just as quickly be taking a note but I'll be done in a 1/10th the time and with zero frustration. Cut/Copy/Paste just work. If you saw a video how often that doesn't work for me on tablet you'd probably feel like the UX designers should be in prison for all the suffering they've put people through. I see that you use sketching apps, but you said below "I have horrible chicken scratch.", has iPad changed that? For my notes, I want to be able to search. I don't actually take many notes though. It mostly add to "todo" lists but not a ton (less than 1 time day) I've owned 3 iPads, most recently got one last January, with keyboard and pencil, but I probably used it less than 12hrs total. After it sat unused for 6+ months I ended up giving to my mom as an upgrade to her 2015 Air. She loves them but she's not trying to be productive. Just as another example, when someone messages me, if I'm near one of my computers, I reply on the computer because it has a keyboard. So much faster and less frustrating for me than trying to reply on a touch device.

birdyrooster 4y ago
Adobe Procreate is great on iPad.
- switch007 4y ago
  Procreate isn’t Adobe just fyi
  - birdyrooster 4y ago
    lmao oops
MarcelOlsz 4y ago
>For me, I can't input fast on a tablet. Fighting with the on screen keyboard or using the (IMO, crappy magic keyboard) just doesn't compare speed wize to my MBP or MBA. I can open those and just as quickly be taking a note but I'll be done in a 1/10th the time and with zero frustration. I don't do anything on it that really requires the onscreen keyboard. If I use a keyboard on it, I do it pretty much only through "link mouse and keyboard" which works brilliantly. Because the keyboard sucks, how did it not come with split keyboard? >I can open those and just as quickly be taking a note but I'll be done in a 1/10th the time and with zero frustration. Right but text doesn't work for me at all. I get lost in a sea of indentation and end up 100 commits deep in a tool that will "finally indent everything for me correctly!!!" that of course I never use nor release. >Cut/Copy/Paste just work. If you saw a video how often that doesn't work for me on tablet you'd probably feel like the UX designers should be in prison for all the suffering they've put people through. I feel you there, luckily copy/paste between my Mac and iPad works perfectly, as I pretty much use it as a glorified note taking device rather than a computer. >I see that you use sketching apps, but you said below "I have horrible chicken scratch.", has iPad changed that? Yes. Not with the default screen. What changed it all was a matte screen protector. I find when I am zoomed in and using the right pencil, my natural writing is quicker than paper and much more legible. Maybe if I found the right gel-pen I'd get the same effect on paper? >For my notes, I want to be able to search. I don't actually take many notes though. It mostly add to "todo" lists but not a ton (less than 1 time day) What kind of stuff do you search? My notes mainly look like this [0] and I'm in goodnotes 99% of the time. If I need to more "free form" get ideas down I use concepts for its infinite canvas then bring it into goodnotes, or ProCreate. It truly is just a glorified note taker for me. Paper, but editable. Sits on my work desk most of the time, rarely used standalone so I agree with everything else that's wrong with it. The keyboard is garbage and it sucks as a computing device and theres roughly 100 other things I wish it did better, but it's so good at notes it's the easiest $1k I've ever spent after using my friends for 5 seconds. [0] https://i.imgur.com/mLdq6mf.jpg https://i.imgur.com/mLdq6mf.jpg (the writing is still quite terrible, so you can imagine what my paper notes look like)

hitpointdrew 4y ago

I don’t see anything you listed as requiring an iPad Pro. Most of what you mentioned revolved around note taking, which is a low cpu/gpu/memory task. You could easily do all those things on a iPad Air without stressing the device at all.

Gigachad 4y ago
The main feature is the bigger version which is the size of an A4 paper.
MarcelOlsz 4y ago
Yeah you're 100% right, it's just the one I have. I actually like smaller form factors better, I like panning with one finger.

andrei_says_ 4y ago

Do you take your notes in handwriting with the pencil? Do you have them converted to text or do you leave them handwritten?

_smmt 4y ago
I do them in handwriting. I never had a problem with the slow process of writing, my problem has always been with editing and manipulating which I can't do on paper. The matte screen protector with the pencil, zoomed in, helps me write super nicely.