thats what I think will happen as well. I have a Surface 3 and bought the pen/stylus for that, but although I admit I don't use the S3 much now, I hardly used the pen/stylus either
so you're using it as a replacement for your finger as such in a lot of applications you use? suppose you must pick up the pencil and then use it and rather than putting it don to scroll just use that? Thats obviously fine, but the finger can do that, surely the pencil was meant for more, which is why I'm asking really. If I took away your pencil what couldnt you do? even basic doodling can be done with your finger?
thanks for replies
There seems to be some unavoidable logic in your reasoning: I don’t use the Surface much, so I don’t use the stylus a lot. That doesn’t make the stylus something that is unnecessary, seems more like a surface/iPad Pro isn’t your thing.
Using it instead of a finger is one of four uses I mentioned. Even if it is 1/4 of the time, which I doubt, the other 3/4 are more then enough to justify it for me.
I write notes in college as they give a better retention of the things that are explained.
That is about 5-7 hours every week. Also I have about 1 hour of webcasts that I need to review for my study.
I also visit several clients every week for work and I like to write my notes on a(n i)pad so there isn’t a great Chinese wall between the client and me. It also gives them the idea I’m not writing down something secret (even though I can’t read my own writing back at times so I hardly think anybody at the other site of the table can read it).
Then I have some 50-150 pages in PDF I need to comment on. That takes several hours as well each day. Sometimes just a “well done”, often small little things like typo’s, switching words, spacing etc. doing this on a laptop is a pain in the proverbial place for both parties involved. I need to make those annoying yellow sticky notes in Acrobat, the other party needs to click on them, change the text, etc.
Writing them down with a pencil (in red!!! I like that) makes it much easier for both sides.
Then there is the doodling. It might seem like a little bit of nothing, but it isn’t. Having something to fidget with keeps me better concentrated. And when I need to write something down I’m not searching for a pen and as a result missing parts of the conversation.
One thing I didn’t mention is that I use it to write down thoughts as they come. I do this in Nebo and it forces me to slow down and think well about what I want to express. When I’m done I can export my handwriting into ASCI (txt/docx/pdf) and use that for working out the rest of the document. But getting to the core works better with a ballpoint/fountain pen/Pencil.
Brilliant app, Nebo and well worth the pencil on it’s own. Again; for me.
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I use the Apple Pencil every day for taking handwritten notes on my 10.5” iPad Pro. Mostly for meetings at work.
My daughter is in college and also prefers to take handwritten notes in her classes with the Apple Pencil and iPad Pro (my old 9.7”).
Writing them down improves recollection of the meeting/college. There have been a lot of researchers busy with this. One thing I can’t find is whether this is true for writing on iPads as well, but I can’t think why not. The reason it improves understanding and recollection is that you are forced to slow down, rethink what has been said and therefore get a better understanding. This is different when you touch-type everything that has been said in a constant, non-thinking flow.
