OCTOBER 2019 MACWORLD 57time, I can’t wait until I’m done.
Apple Pencil makes this process
more bearable. It’s almost fun. The
slender Pencil makes it a lot easier to
pinpoint small icons my fingers would
normally obscure, and holding down the
Pencil to “right-click” feels a little more
intuitive. It’s still not as ideal as using a
mouse, but it comes darn close. It’s
certainly a big improvement on prodding
with my stubby fingers.
A DIGITAL ‘WHITEBOARD’ FOR
PR E S E NTATI O N S
Got a TV that works with AirPlay? Got an
HDMI dongle for your iPad? If you do, you
can hook up your iPad to an external
monitor and use it
for presentations.
Plenty of you
already know this
thanks to Keynote
or PowerPoint.
With an Apple
Pencil–compatible
app like Notability
or Microsoft
OneNote, though,
you can use your
iPad as a
“whiteboard” in
meetings for
making mind
maps, rough
diagrams, or just for jotting down ideas. It
makes for a significantly more interactive
experience in meetings than merely
showing some slides to your coworkers.MARK UP PDFS AND
SCREENSHOTS
The humble PDF is still with us and thriving,
particularly in universities, schools, and
businesses. I personally still see a lot of
PDF contracts I need to sign, With the help
of an app like PDF Expert (go.macworld.
com/pdfx), you can use your Apple Pencil to
highlight text in a PDF, scribble marginal
notes, and make editing marks as easily as
you might with a piece of paper.
Apple Pencil works just as well withYou can mark up anything, really. Just take a screenshot and go to town.