As an iPad owner I would probably use it for taking handwritten notes if the handwriting recognition was reliable enough for text search. But it's not, and the search feature in Apple Notes is the absolute minimum to be called "search". It can only search from the beginning of words, so typing "oo" will never find "foo". Better apps exist but they all come with a subscription of some kind.
replyI am clearly not the target audience for the iPad. Being restricted to apps and what they allow you to do while asking for money at every corner is not my cup of tea.
That's a lot of money for a small amount of use cases, get a $70 Wacom.
replyYou'll look like a mega nerd if you pull that out in a classroom, assuming you even have the desk space. Not to mention the qol improvement of having your pen touch the screen you're drawing on.
replyA mega nerd for pulling out a 7 by 6 inch touchpad with a pen next to your laptop? They're not talking about a full fat Wacom tablet, and besides, it's really not that hard to write on a screen vs a tablet, in some cases even better because your hands don't cover parts of it up (I have both an iPad with a pencil and a Wacom).
replyPlus on macOS you can easily use note taking apps with the Wacom touchpad that then digitize the text to make it searchable.
Does the Wacom show the actual result of the writing, or do you need to look at the screen? This feels like a bad solution to needing an electronic notepad.
replyIt's a touchpad, of course the result shows up on the laptop screen, and the user doesn't even look at the touchpad anymore, just as digital artists don't now. Honestly not sure why commenters here are acting like it's some huge deal to use a touchpad for note taking and that one has to get an iPad when there really is no need.
replyWacom have been selling "pen displays" for years, at least since ~2013. You can buy a brand new one for $300.
replythe difference between writing on a screen and writing on an external tablet is hard to overstate...
replyA Huion Kamvas then, still way cheaper than an iPad.
replyNot really, it works just fine and you don't obscure the screen with your hand.
replyNot really, sure it is easier to find your cursor but that is not very hard using an external tablet, and you get much better ergonomics plus you can see what is under your hand.
replyalso, they still sell paper notebooks )
replyIf digital version is important, there are probably some scanning apps.