![]() Even something as relatively simple on a standard computer as italicizing was a longer and more annoying process on the iPad. By this I mean that moving the typing cursor around on the screen with your finger is a lot less exact than you can achieve with a mouse or trackpad likewise other editing options appeared to be constrained or more rudimentary on the iPad than on a standard computer. In terms of the iPad as a writing device, it’s sufficient but not great basically you give up a lot of fine motor control in order to work on it. I’m not hugely in love with Pages as a word processor in a general sense, but for what I need to do (i.e., type words with minimal formatting), it does well enough. I chose it because a) it’s the best-integrated word processor for iPad, as far as I can see, and b) it now saves to iCloud, Apple’s cloud storage option, which means I can write it on the iPad and then go up and write on it some more on my desktop, if I choose. I tried various word processing options, including Google Docs, my current go-to writing tool for THD, before settling on using Pages from Apple’s iWork suite. In the meantime, this setup works well enough. ![]() But as I got it in white, it hasn’t shipped yet, and it will probably be a week or so before it does. ![]() I bought myself one of the Logitech iPad keyboard covers, which are well reviewed and looks like could be useful when I travel. Well, in fact I wrote an episode of my upcoming project The Human Division on the iPad (roughly 10,500 words), so here’s an update.įirst, some technical notes: for this thing I used my newly purchased iPad (the 2012 iteration), the Apple keyboard that came with my Mac Mini (it has a bluetooth connection) and a cheap plastic plate stand we had lying around the house. Earlier in the week I mentioned I was trying out writing on my iPad, using a bluetooth connected keyboard, and some of you were wondering how that had worked out for me - if indeed it worked out at all. ![]()
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