The keyboards avoid the space available problem simply by providing a dedicated data entry area. While Scribble is fine for short text messages and data entry in online forms, I still recommend handwriting keyboard apps for significant text entry in editing and word processing apps. I don’t know how other people write so small as to be able to fit their signatures on the tiny spaces available on most forms.) Recommendations: There was never enough space at the bottom for me to write without deleting, not even in Scrivener or Ulysses with typewriter mode turned on. I could restrict myself to only adding text to the end of a document-but even that didn’t work for me. Other possible solutions are zooming (not possible in Ulysses), enlarging the text, or triple-spacing lines, but the last two I’d need to revert later when I switched back to typing. I used the Undo button so much just trying it that I did more undoing than writing. If you stray, your writing will “scratch” over text you’ve already written in the previous line or the next, erasing it. In order to use Scribble inside text that wraps, you need to have really tiny handwriting that will fit inside a normal line of text. If I’m going to do that why not just use a handwriting keyboard to begin with? I can pop up the Scribble keyboard, but I find that I need it so often I just need to leave it open. Undo in that case undoes too much-all the text I’d written since I started Scribbling. I can’t erase a single letter, only an entire word. Convincing Scribble to erase any stray mark I accidentally make is an exercise in futility. So then I have a stray mark that may or may not be a letter, and may or may not be the beginning of a word I was trying to write. It also recognises fast-too fast, and I can’t slow it down. But attempting to write a paragraph longer than one line drove me to screaming frustration, then back to WritePad in short order. People find its ability to select by circling text a big help, and if you’re only substituting one word for another its quirks aren’t as challenging. I’ve seen posts on the Scrivener forum that suggest it’s useful in pure editing mode. At least it’s no worse than hasty keyboarding. Scribble’s fine for short text messages, data entry fields, and the like-text fields that don’t wrap. I tested it with Scrivener and Ulysses, as well as Bear, Pages, Word, Notes, and Google Docs. Part of the reason for my recent purchase of an Adonit Note+ was just so as I could check out Apple’s new iPad handwriting input, Scribble.

It’s been a while since I reviewed the state of i(Pad)OS handwriting.

So Happier New Year, readers! I’m changing those things that are in my control in order to turn my year around, and I hope you are, too.Īpple Scribble works on iPads compatible with Apple Pencil Once I’ve got my “oxygen mask” on, I’ll focus more on writing-but for now, clawing back out of depression, weight gain, and lethargy is enough of a challenge. I’m keeping as much contact with my social group as I can, even if Zoom is a depressingly inadequate substitute. My pandemic weight gain has hit a plateau even if it hasn’t started descent. I’m making some progress-I’m sleeping somewhat better. That’s my mental and physical health-I’ve neglected it since the pandemic and I feel it. Still, I did a review of my personal 2020 and came up with a plan: Health first. So while I tagged this #amwriting, mostly I’m not. But it doesn’t substitute for being able to get away for even a little bit. I’m grateful we’re well enough off that each family member has their own room or we’d be at each other’s throats even more than we have been. I haven’t come up with an adequate substitute. (I refuse to go out on the narrow Southern California trails crowded with people exercising and not wearing masks.) Not that I have a lot of social contacts, but I miss being able to go to a local coffeehouse, sit down, plug in, and write (or not write, as is more likely this time of year.) I miss being able to take public transportation. Right now I’m struggling with my usual seasonal depression exacerbated by the need to socially isolate. In fact, I’m reasonably certain it will get better.īut that doesn’t mean that it won’t get worse first. If I’d judged 2020 by the first 12 days, I’d have thought it would be an ordinary year. Okay, the meme of “I’d like a refund of my subscription to 2021” sums up my current feelings… but you can’t judge a year by the first 12 days.

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