2019-01-29 Advantages of using iPad and Apple Pencil

  • A single bottle can produce dozens of colors.

  • You can write both thin and thick lines with a single stroke.

  • Easily and cleanly erased.

    • Undo can be done on a write-off.
    • Only the last one drawn can be erased, even if lines overlap.
  • Can be duplicated.

    • Useful for drawing time series changes and comparisons of multiple things
  • Can draw and then move on.

    • You can organize what you draw afterwards.
  • Color and thickness can be changed after drawing.

  • Can zoom in and out

  • Immediately share your drawings with people far away.

    • Added on 2021-11-25 by putting it on Scrapbox to share with my future self.
      • I’m putting it up as an image now, but it would be better if I could put it up as a path format.
  • weakness

    • With paper, you can increase the screen size by lining them up, but not so with the iPad. image
  • Neo-Whorf Hypothesis Apple Pencil


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