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[YaOkayAlrightOkay]

Hello,
my goal is to do most of my work only on an Ipad Pro with a keyboard, a apple pencil and second gen air pods.
Why am I going to do this? Because it looks nice and I get stressed and I want to be somewhere nice with something light I can carry with me and look at and move around with no papers, no items, no laptop, nothing.

Alright. With that said, I am working very hard to achieve this. I have let go of a virtual assistant and will be doing ALL of my own work now. I will be working basically 24.7 for a long time.

So with that being said some ideas I have are to simply stream my desktop mac to the ipad Using sidecar, HOWEVER it requires me to be around all day to make sure it doesn’t lock or can connect it’s not reliable method so far.

Are there any tips? This could be a mega thread of tips how to accomplish all my life on this ipad.


Thanks all.

 

[rui no onna]

Seems to me like a remote desktop solution such as Jump Desktop would be more appropriate for your usage.

We just use the built-in Windows RDP at work so I'm not all that familiar with the Mac options but I expect there are plenty here who use one that can chime in.

P.S. I know you mentioned no laptop but the M1 MacBook Air is fanless and lighter than iPad Pro 12.9 + Magic Keyboard combo. Of course, not much help if you need Pencil support.

 

[YaOkayAlrightOkay]

I don't know if I need pencil support support like right now I'm writing's this response with a pencil it had to edit it with keyboard to get it right, i have no reason to want to use the pencil to write, except to bring me closer to how our ancestors worked ?

 

[JahBoolean]

If what you are writing down has to be memorized..

There are neurological advantages to using a pen whose tool nature our ancestors acclimated to in thousands of years in contrast to an interface that still remains is a blip in the physiological history of man.

You should try out the dictation function if you had created a habit of working with an assistant.

 

[YaOkayAlrightOkay]

nice good for the ?


Turned off autocorrect and have dictation on! maybe need to make my own dictionary(for strange words that I use a lot) I didn't enable send data to apple To make better if I did turn it off I gotta go find that setting and turn it on because I need every piece of help I can get to get this right.

 

[Username-already-in-use]

Another vote here for Jump Desktop to your Mac/PC. Yes it’s paid, but you only pay for the app once (no ongoing subscription).

I work through Jump Desktop on iPad for 2% of the time I need a desktop OS. The rest of the time, iPadOS is enough.

 

[Isamilis]

Hello,
my goal is to do most of my work only on an Ipad Pro with a keyboard, a apple pencil and second gen air pods.
Why am I going to do this? Because it looks nice and I get stressed and I want to be somewhere nice with something light I can carry with me and look at and move around with no papers, no items, no laptop, nothing.

Alright. With that said, I am working very hard to achieve this. I have let go of a virtual assistant and will be doing ALL of my own work now. I will be working basically 24.7 for a long time.

So with that being said some ideas I have are to simply stream my desktop mac to the ipad Using sidecar, HOWEVER it requires me to be around all day to make sure it doesn’t lock or can connect it’s not reliable method so far.

Are there any tips? This could be a mega thread of tips how to accomplish all my life on this ipad.


Thanks all.

There are already many discussions on how best utilize iPad, also how to make iPad as laptop replacement. The conclusion is, it all depends on your usage, and also depend on available apps (and their capabilities) in iPad.

 

[YaOkayAlrightOkay]

For jump desktop do i pay per desktop ipad or its only one time for all ?

 

[sparksd]

For jump desktop do i pay per desktop ipad or its only one time for all ?

One time fee, covers all devices. I have it on 2 iPads, an iPhone and 2 Windows 11 machines. Works great, use it all the time.

 

[Username-already-in-use]

For jump desktop do i pay per desktop ipad or its only one time for all ?

Pay once and it will work across all iPads signed in with the same Apple ID. The companion client programs for the desktop are all free.

 

[m.x]

Hello,
my goal is to do most of my work only on an Ipad Pro with a keyboard, a apple pencil and second gen air pods.
Why am I going to do this? Because it looks nice and I get stressed and I want to be somewhere nice with something light I can carry with me and look at and move around with no papers, no items, no laptop, nothing.

Alright. With that said, I am working very hard to achieve this. I have let go of a virtual assistant and will be doing ALL of my own work now. I will be working basically 24.7 for a long time.

So with that being said some ideas I have are to simply stream my desktop mac to the ipad Using sidecar, HOWEVER it requires me to be around all day to make sure it doesn’t lock or can connect it’s not reliable method so far.

Are there any tips? This could be a mega thread of tips how to accomplish all my life on this ipad.


Thanks all.

Honestly: if...
...you want something light (1),
...you need to have access your desktop Mac all the time (2)
... and you are unsure if you are going to need a pencil (3),

why don't you just stay with a Mac or use a MacBook Air (maybe with an external display as your desktop setup)?
(1) iPad Pro + Magic Keyboard = 641gr + 710gr = 1351gr >1290gr (MacBook Air). They are both also the same height, while the MacBook Air has a thinner profile,
(2) you wouldn't rely on a constant connection to your other Mac and save battery life,
and you would get a bigger screen and you don't have much use for the main differentiating factor aside from iOS<->macOS, the pencil (3). I wanted to achieve the same things with my iPad, but I realized that my needs are better served with a MacBook and your requirements reminded me of myself.

edit:
@rui no onna beat me to it - I'm sorry, I overlooked your comment on the MB Air.

 

[YaOkayAlrightOkay]

I know computer would be the answer probably best needed. I was hoping that I would feel simpler with this fully. It’s not over yet I’m gettin most of this stuff done, i might pull this off dawg. I’m reading books and doing taxes with a special numbers ipad version that allows something called “forms” that when you move to desktop it doesn’t even let you use that feature, so i mean I got that going for me ?