Apple launches Freeform: a powerful new app designed for creative collaboration

Re:Apple launches Freeform: a powerful new app designed for ... by interpol_p on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @10:20AM (#34081776)

Notes is one of my favourite apps on iOS. I just realised recently I could drag-and-drop recordings from Voice Memos right inline into a note on iPad and it synced everywhere, with playback controls right under my text

It also looks nice, syncs and collaborates well. I have everything from my shopping lists, to scans of all my kids' artwork, to design documents for coding projects

I have to use OneNote at work and it is abysmal. It is plain how little care and love appears to go into that product

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Re:Apple launches Freeform: a powerful new app designed for ... by smoldesu on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @11:11AM (#34082542)

What's your gripe with OneNote? I used it a few years ago and remember enjoying it much more than Apple Notes, especially on desktop.

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Re:Apple launches Freeform: a powerful new app designed for ... by kyawzazaw on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @11:55AM (#34083153)

it somehow doesn't even ink to text on my iPad

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Re:Apple launches Freeform: a powerful new app designed for ... by smoldesu on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @12:52PM (#34083982)

It did on my Surface, for what that's worth.

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Re:Apple launches Freeform: a powerful new app designed for ... by PascLeRasc on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @01:19PM (#34084318)

Typing latency is measured in the tens of seconds.

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Re:Apple launches Freeform: a powerful new app designed for ... by szdva on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @03:06PM (#34085718)

Must be using the same GUI framework that they use for Office apps on Windows ;-)

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Re:Apple launches Freeform: a powerful new app designed for ... by Tagbert on Thursday December 22, 2022 @02:07PM (#34097143)

I haven’t seen any such sluggishness. The only area where OneNote (MacOS) is slow is in syncing to other devices where it can take a minute or two to bring changes to another device. I rarely switch devices within a session so that doesn’t bother me.

Which OS are you using for OneNote?

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Re:Apple launches Freeform: a powerful new app designed for ... by joshspankit on Friday December 23, 2022 @08:45AM (#34105704)

You’d hate the Tangerine (bank) website. Each letter typed does a round-trip to the server, and each text box gets progressively slower the more put in it.

(Not just trauma-dumping. Saying this here to say there might be a common tech problem that we can expose)

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Re:Apple launches Freeform: a powerful new app designed for ... by mwlp on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @03:45PM (#34086173)

I can't name a single meaningful new feature that was added to OneNote in the past 8 years.

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Re:Apple launches Freeform: a powerful new app designed for ... by pqs on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @05:47PM (#34087405)

As far as I understood, they will soon add Loop components. That will introduce a tone of new features soon.

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