Surprisingly, ZoomNotes and Noteshelf don’t have trouble differentiating scribble from their pen tools. The likes of search tools and renaming documents in the apps. Scribble does work though, on the parts of their apps that have been purely text input based.

If I was a handwriting note-taking app, I’d be confused too. We are assuming they need to eliminate the confusion caused by the two handwriting inputs (pen tools versus scribble). Their text tools are not supporting scribble just yet. Scribble is not working on most apps that support Apple Pencil inking though, that is Notability, GoodNotes, Pages and Word.

Draw a vertical line between words to join or separate them.

Touch and hold to create space between words.

Scribble comes with some intuitive gestures as well. If you’ve typed it before, you don’t have to anymore. It is revolutionary for those of us that still prefer handwriting our notes, but want typed versions of them.

Scribble works for searching our iPads and taking notes in WriteMapper, Agenda, Bear, Scrivener and Things 3. Apple, however, has taken OCR from inside our apps and spread it across iPadOS. Handwriting recognition has become a must-have for note-taking apps.

It is great for privacy and it still works when we are offline. On-device conversion converts our handwriting to text. Scribble is an OCR technology that lets us handwrite directly into text fields. When you turn on smart rotate, the widget systematically changes the top app to display the most relevant to you based on your location, time and activity. Smart stack groups multiple apps under one widget. They allow us that personal touch to how our widgets look on our devices. Looking forward to playing around with them. The different widget sizes make our widgets a bit more fun. This public beta iPadOS 14 has made my widgets dysfunctional, as expected of beta testing. The first thing I noticed on installing iPadOS 14 was the widgets. Remember to backup your iPad before installing it in case you don’t like it and want to go back to iPadOS 13.

Instaling Scribble It!