Hands-On With the New Scribble Feature in iPadOS 14

[Spydie007]

Does anyone happen to know if Scribble will work in Pages?

Does not work with pages as far as I can find. I tried it and you have to choose "annotate" (and must have text on the page to annotate) or "drawing". No way to start writing your novel. Unlike the app Nebo where I'm currently writing two novels in long-hand and they are being converted to text on command. Very reliable. I was hoping apples IpadOS 14 was going to reduce my dependency on third party apps. But it seems the scribble update is a little crippled. DARN.

 

[Spydie007]

Has anyone found Automatic categorization on ipados 14? ipadOS 14 seems to be missing a LOT of the features of IOS 14.

 

[DGGoingUphill]

Does not work with pages as far as I can find.

That’s odd behavior. I have yet to find a place where I couldn’t use Scribble where you can normally type.

 

[Spydie007]

That’s odd behavior. I have yet to find a place where I couldn’t use Scribble where you can normally type.

Give it a try and let me know if it works for you. Didn't work for me. See my post above

 

[DGGoingUphill]

Sorry, don’t use Pages so can’t test. I wasn’t suggesting you were doing it wrong, just noting that it was a strange bug.

 

[Spydie007]

Sorry, don’t use Pages so can’t test. I wasn’t suggesting you were doing it wrong, just noting that it was a strange bug.

As a general rule I don't use pages on the ipad either, just on my computer, but I was hoping to be able to use it on the ipad like I use the app Nebo.

 

[servenvolley]

Does not work with pages as far as I can find. I tried it and you have to choose "annotate" (and must have text on the page to annotate) or "drawing". No way to start writing your novel. Unlike the app Nebo where I'm currently writing two novels in long-hand and they are being converted to text on command. Very reliable. I was hoping apples IpadOS 14 was going to reduce my dependency on third party apps. But it seems the scribble update is a little crippled. DARN.

Thanks for your answer. So in regard to Nebo for long handing a novel, you would recommend?

 

[Spydie007]

Thanks for your answer. So in regard to Nebo for long handing a novel, you would recommend?

Yes, it works perfect so far. it doesn't convert to text as you write, but at any time you can convert what you've written to text. You do have to pay for it if you want to save your text in a format to publish (pages, doc or docx, epub, etc). Otherwise it's free.

 

[ach]

Cool, I've been doing it for ages in my surface Pro, but this looks good cool and probably a more seamless integration.

For work, I’ve requested a SP4 years ago. it never worked well for me. The only standard app that supported handwriting half decently is OneNote, which by the way is my favorite. The handwriting didn’t work with much apps. The other major problem was more with the hardware and OS. My main purpose was to use it for documentation for testing not keeping. The SP4 is no where energy efficient as a iPad Pro, it drains too much power if left on and takes way too long to wake up, log in, connect to WiFi to take a quick note or to refer to some procedure. It will not last a whole day. I really hoped it would work. Well, all of my team are requesting thin laptops next time. We are not allowed to use non-approved hardware.


i am not sure how well scribble will work, but from what I’ve seen and read, it looks promising.

 

[MacOSExustio]

So they resurrected old code from the Newton?

My guess is they resurrected and probably improved the Ink framework which used to be on Macs back when Macs were still 32-bit - they never upgraded it to 64-bit, and it doesn't look like it's in macOS 14 either (no prefPane, no Framework, private or otherwise). That in turn was based on the old mothballed Rosetta code in the Newton 2.0 that they probably should have stated with in the original Newton, though it might not have been in working form at the time. (The original was in 1994. N2000 was in 1997.)

<newton rant - how Apple could have maybe trounced Palm Pilot and well.. everyone>

As well putting a better (read reasonable) processor in the first generation. The StrongARM (162 Mhz, 185 MIPS) in the Newton 2x00 wasn't released until 3 years after the first Newton, but there were other ARM chips/speeds. The original H1000 used to lowest speed ARM 610 at 20 Mhz (17 MIPS), but the highest speed was 33 Mhz (27 MIPS).

The N2x00 StrongArm (162 Mhz, 185 MIPS) can be overclocked to 220 Mhz (~253 MIPS). The specified top speed of the StrongARM is only 200 Mhz (230 MIPS), but you can apparently overclock to 220 [1]. Who knows, you might be able to go even higher than that, though possibly with a custom designed case with heat fins and a small fan, and not-so-occasional random shutdowns.

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20101212092417/newton.tek-ed.com/newtspeed/

More memory/maybe faster memory bus (not sure whether they could have gone higher) wouldn't have hurt either. The original had a pitiful 640KB RAM while the 2100 had 8 MB. The Newton ran programs execute-in-place on the flash card, so RAM burden was reduced, and data storage was largely if not entirely virtual-memory flash based. A better display than the original might have helped - certainly a bigger one the size of the 2x00 (though small screens have their charms - as some iPhone users can attest). Two PCMCIA slots in the first machine would also have been a plus - one for communications, one for storage or other (but probably impossible given the form factor.)