Maybe the official Apple Pencil is overkill for the price? If just browsing, probably the Apple Pencil clones will suffice....is the Apple Pencil overkill for just browsing an iPad then (if you're not using it for notes) ?!
Maybe the official Apple Pencil is overkill for the price? If just browsing, probably the Apple Pencil clones will suffice....is the Apple Pencil overkill for just browsing an iPad then (if you're not using it for notes) ?!
Anybody have any other recommendations for some kind of case for the pencil?
I have noticed the same and I think it would benefit the experience with a more universal text input box.I recently bought the Apple Pencil 2 and for the most part its great. I do wish though that Apple made a universal text field open up in the centre of the screen when you write.
By this I mean that in Safari, the free form writing text field is at the top, whereas in YouTube, it’s right at the base of the screen???!
A free form writing box should open up, somewhere on the screen, so that you can actually write inside this field as currently, when writing a web address in Safari, all you get is the minuscule writing space inside the web address window - it’s almost impossible to write anything in such a small space using the pencil?!
The same thing happens in other apps like YouTube or Twitter, you get the smallest space to try and write anything?! It should be that you just tap inside the window with the pen and then you should be able to write anywhere on the screen but it just doesn’t work like that...??!
Or am I just using it wrong??!
I think the Magic Keyboard would be a better investment. I'm not an artist either, but originally used the Apple Pencil more as a stylus/mouse pointer. Once I got the Magic Keyboard, the Pencil just sits on my desk.
my consideration is in bold. i seldom use it to take notes. that's why still undecided whether to get it. it's more like a want than need thingI've been studiously avoiding any sort of Apple Pencil or its equivalents for years, other than to try products like the Adonit Jots. For the most part it's been ebay specials, ball point pens with rubber tips and the like.
Then a few months ago I got the iPad Pro 11. Anyway, the biggest thing for me was that palm rejection no longer works with unpaired or "dumb" styluses, particularly in Notability which I use a fair bit.
Two weeks ago I relented and bought the AP2 after my daughter got her new iPad with the AP1. Tried hers and said, "dash it, I'll get one".
Tonight I unpacked it (it sat in my work bag for 2 weeks) and set it up, Well, stuck it to the side of the iPad to let it pair and to charge. It's gone from 20% to 50% in ten minutes.
Meanwhile, I've just tested it with Notability. It's so smooth, allows me to write small, slides easily across the screen, not as noisy as some hard nibbed styluses and best of all, Palm Rejection now works.
Notability support was useless when I first got this ipad, installed the app and started writing with it, only to discover that palm rejection wasn't working.
Maybe this model iPad Pro isn't designed to work with naything other than the Pencil. Who knows.
Whatever, for $195AUD it ain't cheap. I won't say it's worth it or not worth it because I can achieve the same thing with a paper note pad and pen for about $5 and if I want to, scan the pages into Evernote or similar. But, it's a gadget and with them you don't justify the cost or whatever. You just buy it if you can afford to do so.
To protect it I got a $5 silicon cover off of ebay. It makes it a bit bulkier to write with but it's soft and easily removed. It has a slide off nib cover but that degrades the writing performance. But importantly, it's magnetically attached to the iPad and is charging.
To the OP, if you have some spare cash and like playing with gadgets, go for it, I reckon.
I've been studiously avoiding any sort of Apple Pencil or its equivalents for years, other than to try products like the Adonit Jots. For the most part it's been ebay specials, ball point pens with rubber tips and the like.
Then a few months ago I got the iPad Pro 11. Anyway, the biggest thing for me was that palm rejection no longer works with unpaired or "dumb" styluses, particularly in Notability which I use a fair bit.
Two weeks ago I relented and bought the AP2 after my daughter got her new iPad with the AP1. Tried hers and said, "dash it, I'll get one".
Tonight I unpacked it (it sat in my work bag for 2 weeks) and set it up, Well, stuck it to the side of the iPad to let it pair and to charge. It's gone from 20% to 50% in ten minutes.
Meanwhile, I've just tested it with Notability. It's so smooth, allows me to write small, slides easily across the screen, not as noisy as some hard nibbed styluses and best of all, Palm Rejection now works.
Notability support was useless when I first got this ipad, installed the app and started writing with it, only to discover that palm rejection wasn't working.
Maybe this model iPad Pro isn't designed to work with naything other than the Pencil. Who knows.
Whatever, for $195AUD it ain't cheap. I won't say it's worth it or not worth it because I can achieve the same thing with a paper note pad and pen for about $5 and if I want to, scan the pages into Evernote or similar. But, it's a gadget and with them you don't justify the cost or whatever. You just buy it if you can afford to do so.
To protect it I got a $5 silicon cover off of ebay. It makes it a bit bulkier to write with but it's soft and easily removed. It has a slide off nib cover but that degrades the writing performance. But importantly, it's magnetically attached to the iPad and is charging.
To the OP, if you have some spare cash and like playing with gadgets, go for it, I reckon.
Which one? Do you have a link to it? Thing is, none of my styluses work with this iPad Pro 11 successfully with palm rejection.Did you not consider a $30 stylus' from Amazon? Based on this thread and videos on Youtube, they do a good job with palm rejection and basic note taking.
Which one? Do you have a link to it? Thing is, none of my styluses work with this iPad Pro 11 successfully with palm rejection.
I don't know for sure but I have a suspicion that Apple has disabled it for non-Pencil styluses. Well, put it this way, the conspiricy theorist in me is leaning in that direction.
I can so for sure though, is that PR works beautifully with all apps that I tried tonight. So, who knows?
Thanks. Amazon sells it for $86 here in Australia. That's around $65 USD.I believe it's the JamJake. You should check your local Amazon.
It allows for different hand motion, so is useful for avoiding repetitive stress when using finger as a pointer.. I do the same with a Wacom on my Mae Mini to break things up from just touchpad pointing only....is the Apple Pencil overkill for just browsing an iPad then (if you're not using it for notes) ?!