This approach causes some crazy multi-touch workarounds for things like selecting multiple nodes, which requires you to tap and hold on one node while tapping another node to add it to your selection. It may sound silly, but the physical connection to your ideas makes them seem more real. One of the things we love about MindNode on the iPad is the ability to physically touch your nodes when you move them around. While the technical implementation of trackpad support in MindNode isn’t going to cause anyone’s jaw to drop in amazement, it does have a rather substantial impact on the usability of the app. Things 3’s minimal personality has always ranked near the top of its most notable features, and cursor support manages to stay within the realm of minimal and functional without losing what makes Things feel so great.Īvailable now: our video course for Things 3 users… The trackpad is just large enough to be able to click the Magic Add Task button and drag across the screen to an area or smart list for adding a task. Nearly all of Things’s interactable buttons now have a cursor morph - chevron arrows for dropping down an area now zip to the cursor, the Quick Find menu in the top left corner boosts in size as you hover over it, and the Magic Add Task button in the bottom right corner takes on a whole new life when the cursor whips around. But this is about trackpad support, and we find a few of Things’s trackpad implementations to add some more character and whimsy to the app.įor instance, if you take the iPad cursor and maneuver through your list of checkboxes, you’ll notice the cursor morph into each individual box, highlighting the box and bringing it to the forefront of your attention. Here’s a roundup of our favorite implementations of trackpad and cursor support so far, along with a few we’re hoping see an update sooner rather than later. The whimsy of the amoeba-like pointer - Marius’s words, not mine - has already evolved and taken new shapes and effects in some of our favorite apps. That said, should you be interested in using the iPad on a desk, trackpad support feels and works wonderfully. And not particularly detrimental to using an iPad. Apps that haven’t officially adopted the new input method can still be used, like they always were, but with a few clicks, holds, and drags where a trackpad is concerned.
Which is why iPad users aren’t screaming from the rooftops at apps that haven’t yet been updated with proper trackpad support. The crux of his argument: While the pointer in macOS is effectively fundamental to using the Mac, pointer control on the iPad is not fundamental to how you use the iPad - it’s just another way to move about the screen. Matt’s article is particularly fluent on the matter.
What I like about pointer control on the iPad isn’t that it’s now available, but rather that I only have to use it when I want to. * Lets you also create individual maps which combine in real time to reveal the group's perspective.Much has been made of iPadOS 13.4’s out-of-the-blue trackpad support, but one of my favorite takes on the matter comes from Matt Gemmell: * Multiple prioritisation tools which can be used independently or altogether. * Customisable templates * Choose your brainstorming style * Allow for individual and group brainstorming to reduce groupthink * Reports on individual as well as group results to improve decision quality. Unlike other online whiteboards, GroupMap lets you set the rules for collaboration and decision making including: Government departments for internal planning as well as community consultation to generate feedback and insight for policy planning and decision making.Ĭollaborative organisations for strategic planning, reducing meeting costs and improving productivity in decision making.Ĭonsultants and facilitators to provide real time evidence and a tool for strategic planning, change management and conflict resolution.
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