iPad Pro 10.5 or 12.9 for academic use ?!?

[Kostas3000]

I am sure you will be quite happy with 10.5 for the academic use. I use a 12.9, often in landscape, but then I am 40+ and eye sight get naturally a little poorer with age. I have no issues with portability as I always have a desk closeby to rest the iPad on. I annotate student reports in portait mode becuase reports typically have large fonts compared to those found in scientific articles. For labwork, 10.5 is likely a better solutions due to its smaller footprint.

It is also agreat device in teaching/supervisor situation as it works like a block of paper that you can sketch out ideas on and then mail to students.

If you use Mendeley, I can recommand Papership as it has better annotations tools compared to Mendeleys own iPad app. Do not expect to use reference manager software for writing scientific articles on the iPad.

Do you know that you can citate scientific articles on the iPad with either endnote or bookends?????

 

[va1984]

I too cannot believe how they dropped the ball twice. Suffered through the Papers2 - Papers3 transition travesty, was an very early user and it seemed they finally nailed it on the Mac after a full year P3 (well sorted sync to the iPad). And then they sell and nothing happens any more? So much potential! If they force me to a ridiculous Readcube subscription I will cry!

Also, if you don't mind: do notes on Papers3 PDFs work nice or is this problematic, too?

Also also, I'm currently watching all LiquidText videos I can find! Wow! I actually discussed something like this way back briefly in the old Papers forums. I have to check this out 8-D

Notes in Papers work great in my opinion and using the Pencil is a joy. I don't use a Mac (well I have MacOS on an SSD drive that I can boot up on a library iMac if I need to) so I suffer not being able to properly edit all reference info in Papers on the iPad. By the reading and annotation part (Split View aside) works well.

Liquid Text is awesome, although it lacks a serious file management aspect.

 

[fb3]

@va1984 if you don't mind a quick follow up question:

About to buy LiquidText. Did you get the Enterprise version (seems to be half the price, homepage says all features included). What's the catch?!?

 

[AFEPPL]

I would stay with what you have already.

 

[va1984]

@va1984 if you don't mind a quick follow up question:

About to buy LiquidText. Did you get the Enterprise version (seems to be half the price, homepage says all features included). What's the catch?!?

Sorry for he late reply. I don’t really know: I bought the pro features for - I think - $10 quite a while ago and I wasn’t aware of the fact that there are different options.

 

[fb3]

@va1984 no worries... I'll just tweet these guys and see if there's a catch...

 

[viktit88]

Dear Friends! Has anybody of You written articles, papers, thesis on iPad? Is it real?

 

[fb3]

Oh man - what a beast... and what an amazing screen!

Still not sure if 10.5 is perfect for reading scientific 2-column papers and annotating in Liquidtext in landscape. Would just need a tiny Bit more horizontal space... but it's still a nice workflow for sure (and probably a non-issue if you have books, drafts, or other regular column texts). Portrait orientation and 2-col papers is great. Quite a better than on my old iPad Air 1.

However, was looking at the 12.9 again and that still looks massive. Cannot See myself on the go with it (trains, etc). I
guess i'll have to buy that too at a later stage ;-)

 

[Tergonenc]

I am sure you will be quite happy with 10.5 for the academic use. I use a 12.9, often in landscape, but then I am 40+ and eye sight get naturally a little poorer with age. I have no issues with portability as I always have a desk closeby to rest the iPad on. I annotate student reports in portait mode becuase reports typically have large fonts compared to those found in scientific articles. For labwork, 10.5 is likely a better solutions due to its smaller footprint.

It is also agreat device in teaching/supervisor situation as it works like a block of paper that you can sketch out ideas on and then mail to students.

If you use Mendeley, I can recommand Papership as it has better annotations tools compared to Mendeleys own iPad app. Do not expect to use reference manager software for writing scientific articles on the iPad.

[doublepost=1504247616][/doublepost]Why do you think iPad is not suitable for reference manager software for writing article?

 

[johannnn]

Dear Friends! Has anybody of You written articles, papers, thesis on iPad? Is it real?

Maybe times have changed, but when I started my thesis a year ago, there was absolutely no good way to handle/insert citations (of course you Can do it, but the workflows from finding a paper all the way to having a citation in your writing program are way slower than on macOS).

Because of this I wrote my last paper and my thesis on a MacBook 12.

(the creators of ReadCube.app and Papers.app have merged and will release a new app this fall, I'm very excited for it. Together with Manuscripts.app should be a very nice combination for macOS. Let's hope they also make something great for iOS)

(I haven't used the 10.5 version myself, but I found reading papers much more enjoyable on the 12.9 than the 9.7 due to the text size. On the 9.7 I tend to zoom in on just one column of text at a time, but then you have to scroll left right a ton)

(I'm in life science so I haven't looked at any latex solutions)

 

[iPadified]

Do you know that you can citate scientific articles on the iPad with either endnote or bookends?????

We do not use Endnote or bookends at my Univerisity. I looked at Bookends description but I do not see that you can reference and reformat word documents. Reformatting citation according to the journal you submit to is crucial. Usually you do this with a chosing a journal format and the field codes inserted into word to guide the reformatting of the reference list. If you need to submit to another journal, reformatting the list is as easy.
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[doublepost=1504247616][/doublepost]Why do you think iPad is not suitable for reference manager software for writing article?

At least I have you solved how to insert references from Mendeley. The types of references I refer to is NOT the footnotes that are built into word but those where the reference app insert field codes into word. The field codes allows for easy choosing of formats of the references according to the journal you submit to.