The iPad mini is also the perfect size to hold in one hand and take notes with the Apple Pencil with the other hand for situations where you don’t have a table to take notes on or would just like a little privacy with the notes you are taking.īut note taking is not the only reason why the iPad mini form factor shines for my uses. Even at a cramped conference room table I can easily keep my laptop open and lay my iPad mini down on the table with room to spare. The small iPad mini, however, works great. Having a full-sized laptop a larger iPad (like an 11” or 12.9” iPad Pro) both in front of me is really hard in most situations. Whether I am working from home or physically at work, I need to take my laptop to most meetings. In my case the driving case for this size of tablet is taking notes at work. People either love or loath the iPad mini because of its size. There is really only one answer to this question and that is the form factor. Now that my iPad screen size could be a little smaller and I no longer needed a connected keyboard and I had a new use case for taking notes as work, it really opened up my options for switching up my iPad form factor. So after taking notes with my iPad Pro 11” and my Apple Pencil for a few weeks as a test run and having it work really wellI knew I had a much better note taking solution. But there are a ton of options to do just that in iOS. but I had not found a really good solution to taking hand-written notes on paper and then easily and accurately converting them into digital form that was searchable. I found that my memory retention on the notes was much greater if I hand write my notes. So I started taking hand-written notes and digitizing those notes so that I could later search them. I used to take digital notes by typing on my laptop, but I found that hours after taking the notes I would completely forget the notes I had taken. The other factor that drove me to consider a new iPad form factor was the shift in how I take notes at work. I’m almost always at home these days and the most comfortable place for me to write is in front of my iMac. Writing articles for GeekDad, like this one, is generally done on weekends on my home computer, so there is no need to have a magic keyboard attached to an iPad Pro so that I can write absolutely anywhere. I stopped publishing my personal blog and the writing project I am in the middle of has moved from research into production so my use of the iPad for writing purposes has gone down significantly. So my need for a larger screen to read and annotate sheet music on has disappeared. I recently moved my family out of state, and between moving to a new community and COVID I haven’t gotten involved with a new local church as I had in my previous community. The iPad mini screen just wasn’t big enough to do that task well, so I reluctantly moved on to a bigger iPad and have been in that world ever since. I started playing more piano and keyboards for my church and that meant a lot of sheet music reading and notation. But, unfortunately, my computing needs changed. It quickly became my favorite computing device of all time. It was so comfortable to hold and use, the perfect size for playing games, great for reading and was a very inconspicuous device to take notes on during work meetings. I absolutely loved that form factor for the iPad. Many years ago my one and only iPad was the original iPad mini back from 2012. The 11″ iPad Pro (bottom) and the iPad mini 6 (top) (Image by Skip Owens This article is about why the iPad mini really is the optimally sized device for me and why that might be the case for some of you as well. This prompted me to switch over from an iPad Pro 11” to the new iPad mini 6. The last 18-months has been impactful on us for lots of reasons, and one of those impacts on me was on my personal computing needs.
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