I like the idea of Scribble but I’m finding it impossible to get along with in Drafts. Should I persist with it? Or are other people also finding it a pain?
(Writing this question was problematic - so maybe it’s a general problem of mine.)
I like the idea of Scribble but I’m finding it impossible to get along with in Drafts. Should I persist with it? Or are other people also finding it a pain?
(Writing this question was problematic - so maybe it’s a general problem of mine.)
Scribble is great for search boxes IF you only enter plain text.
@nahumck wrote on MacStories that he is using it in Drafts for journals.
I loved the idea but have not dived deeper into it.
I think the scribble engine of Apple is not jet at full customer satisfaction level.
I like your Germlish typo “not jet”. I guess you meant “nicht jetzt”. But I tease.
Thanks for your reply. And I’m glad @nahumck at least has made the leap.
There have been two identifiable issues so far for me:
I’m obviously on the steep part of the learning curve with Scribble. I’ll keep trying and learning - as Scribble might be viable and useful.
I’ve tried it a few times, mostly to test compatibility, but honestly can’t think of a case where it would be more efficient that typing in Drafts.
I get it’s usefulness in mixed drawing/note-taking environments, or could see it being useful popping out a Drafts slide-over for a quick thought while using the pencil for something else, but can’t personally see me using it in Drafts beyond that.
Right. I just thought I’d try it.
Given I’ve enabled Back Tap (2 taps) to create a new draft - on my phone - I have better ways to jot stuff down.
I played around with it during the beta period but quickly found it’s not really worth it. Might be great for quick idea capturing but longer note taking (like in a meeting or something) isn’t really usable. Sticking with Good Notes for now. It’d be cool if Drafts had a handwriting interface to it, but not sure if that fits with the how Drafts operates.
Agreed — I find it far more satisfying and efficient to write in goodnotes then dragging and dropping into drafts - that conversion is magical.
What do you drag into drafts? The handwritten note?!
Yes - it converts automatically to text. Much easier process than fiddling with scribble imho. https://www.macstories.net/reviews/goodnotes-adds-drag-and-drop-flexibility/
They is awesome! Thank you. Will definitely be trying that out today.
So that’s a conversion on the way out of GoodNotes rather than on the way into Drafts, right?
(And, yes, I have GoodNotes so this will work for me.)
Stray thought: It would be interesting to drag a Taskpaper list out of GoodNotes into OmniFocus.
I’ve never been able to get the drag and drop work directly to omnifocus - I usually need to go to Drafts first, since omnifocus views the dragged handwriting as a .png file. (Things 3 works, btw, but not as taskspaper, so you end up with a single task with several lines). But if you do get this to work, let me know!
Sounds like a drag out of GoodNotes contains multiple renderings - and OmniFocus picks the image rather than the text. But I will experiment.
This surely could be modified… https://www.peerreviewed.io/blog/sending-hand-written-tasks-from-goodnotes-to-todoist-using-shortcuts
EDIT: And it does - I have modified that shortcut. Not as quick as a drag and drop, but with this you can “convert” then run the shortcut and it adds them all to Omnifocus. Neat. I anyone knows how to include a step in shortcuts to convert text to task spaper, then this would be really useful!
Are you willing to share your modificatation
Replaced Omnifocus with Drafts.
Still needs some thinking or tinkering
I still think drag and drop (or just copy/paste) is faster with drafts - this was an effort to get around the restrictions within Omnifocus.