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iPad productivity 10 years later
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Posted by Pierre Paul Landry
Jan 30, 2020 at 03:45 PM
Jeffery Smith wrote:
> I can live with just the iPad, but can’t work with it solely. I used a Brydge keyboard with it, and what annoyed me most is that when I went back to using a Macbook, I couldn’t get out of touch-screen mode.
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>There are some serious apps (Omnniplan, Scrivener) and it is the only way to go in meetings because opening up a laptop on the conference room desk is just plain rude. Writing on the iPad with the Apple Pencil feels awful, but the matte screen coverings give it a more paperlike texture.
A device which is both a tablet and a real computer with touch-screen, that has an optional keyboard and pen, which you can use in a conference room is a Surface Pro (or clone of)
It really is a “do it all” device
Just my 2 cents !
Pierre Paul Landry
IQ Designer
Posted by Paul Korm
Jan 30, 2020 at 04:53 PM
Are Surface Pro’s reliable and durable—they feel flimsy. And that model with the carpeting on the keyboard is ... odd. Don’t know if it is still offered.
Posted by Franz Grieser
Jan 30, 2020 at 05:58 PM
Paul Korm wrote:
>Are Surface Pro’s reliable and durable—they feel flimsy.
They are. I had my Surface Pro 4 for almost 2 years, there were almost no scratches or damages when I sold it. The Surface Pro 6 I have now is as robust as my iPad (6. gen)
>And that model with the carpeting on the keyboard is ... odd. Don’t know if it
>is still offered.
Do you mean the Surface Book? That is still sold.
Or do you mean the Surface Type Cover? That’s also still available. It is no comparison to the Bryce keyboard for the iPad (but there is also a Bryce keyboard for the Surface).
Posted by jaslar
Jan 30, 2020 at 06:01 PM
I used the iPad 2 for many years, and very productively, as a speaker. My main tool was mindmaps. I used SimpleMind or iThoughts to produce a seven first-ring presentation, then additional branches to support them. Since most speakers reuse various bits, this allowed me to set up a series of mind map nodes I could recombine into new talks. I found this creation process so simple and easy that I could accept a speaking engagement one day, then create the talk on the flight out, and deliver it once I arrived. I bought an iPad to VGA cable, which worked almost all of the time to project the mindmap, expanding and zooming as I went. (These days most conferences and workshops have shifted to HDMI, and I never bought the new cable when I shifted to the Chromebook. (I did buy an adapter for that machine, though.)
Later, I used Editorial to write on the iPad when I traveled (blog posts, and longer form things), at which point I really liked my Logitech snap on keyboard. I also used Simplenote and CarbonOutliner to take notes, and journal.
Advantages (as others have noted): lightweight, long battery life, and the additional advantage of being an excellent consumer device for books and movies. I suppose the question is WHAT do you need to create? Through the years I’ve decided it makes more sense to simplify my work, rather than complexify my tools.
Posted by Franz Grieser
Jan 30, 2020 at 07:34 PM
Sorry, I misspelled the Brydge keyboards (not Bryce).