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Freeform is the best app Apple has made in a long time.
- Great performance (even on Intel)
- Intuative and easy to use
- Simple but conclusive feature set
 
What will you use it for? Serious question!! It seems very versitle but other that short term entertainment how can we use it?
 
Is it even working? I mean it works fine on my ipad/ios, but does not work on mac. Gives "Try again later" and talks about documents not being synced yet.

Ipad/ios work fine though. Turned off and on in icloud, but the same error.
 
What will you use it for? Serious question!! It seems very versitle but other that short term entertainment how can we use it?
I'm using it right now to organize activities for a large group after a conference we're having next year!

It's pretty cool, it's like a big ol' digital cork board.

To be completely fair, I don't see what this app offers over established methods of collaboration such as file sharing on notes, or even a regular pages/word document.

But it's way more fun.

The only thing I can't seem to figure out is how to place clickable hyperlinks on it.
 
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I'm using it and like it's capabilities so far...but am I missing something? Are there zero keyboard shortcuts? Nothing is listed in the menu, so I feel like I have to constantly be clicking menu items/back to board and vice versa.

IE I want option click to drag a connection between items, but I haven't found a shortcut for that, and no keyboard shortcuts are listed in the menu. I want shortcuts for nearly everything - this app could be amazing but right now I feel like it is trying to level the playing field by having no power user features, so everyone is forced to click and drag.

Also, we should be able to drag/drop shapes out of the shape menu. I try to do it every time, and then have to click, then have to click to select. Just way too much clicking. On the iPad, you can drag out of the menu, but it is way too slow as you have to touch...wait...then drag.

Also it seems there is no way to change defaults? Every shape starts as blue with no stroke, every connection is curved. Basically, a great minimum viable product as it supports a ton of things like urls, collaboration, apple pencil, images, every apple platform, etc. But I'm hoping Apple has updates planned that can take it to the next level. I'm hoping they will eventually add a web interface for it, that way it would be considered for use by my company.
 
Could someone test if your freeform app in MacOS is syncing properly? As I said in my previous, I have ipad/iphone working fine, but the macos one refuses to sync. Tried all kinds of killing/rebooting/stopping/starting and the like without luck.
 
Could someone test if your freeform app in MacOS is syncing properly? As I said in my previous, I have ipad/iphone working fine, but the macos one refuses to sync. Tried all kinds of killing/rebooting/stopping/starting and the like without luck.
I had trouble with mine syncing and tried closing and opening, looked for any settings, it still didn't work. Then suddenly it just started syncing with my Mac, iPad, and phone. Have no idea what I did but it's syncing every time now. Interesting thing was I couldn't find any settings on this app. Setting search shows nothing on Freeform.
 
Yeah it just started working for me today as well. They definitely fixed something.
 
I love this app ♥️

Something you didn't even know you needed.
Will get a lot of use for it ♥️
 
I am not that impressed so far. It is not syncing between my various devices.
 
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