New Feature: Advanced Apple Pencil support

Josh Moore · 2020-11-11T01:46:35+00:00

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Yes, I know, iPadOS has scribble effect, but that is meant for single line input, not full feature note taking.

More importantly, the Apple Pencil could be a much more natural highlighting solution. Much like reading a book, I see using your fingers to swipe/scroll and the pen to highlight/underline. Instead of the press>hold>slide motion, the pencil would just begin highlighting on first contact.

A long press with the pencil creates a note, while a long press with a finger launches a search.

Right now the Apple Pencil is still just a glorified stylus.

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Douglas McClure

I’d love to be able to freely mark up scripture. While highlighting is great and note taking is very useful, when teaching I’d love to be able to draw lines connecting words or thoughts, draw arrows, etc.

Kevin Teeling

It's frustrating that it doesn't seem to be consistent in terms of whether "highlighting" with the pen will just select the text or actually highlight it.

Levi Figueira

This should be merged with this other one: https://feedback.faithlife.com/boards/logos-mobile-app/posts/apple-pencil-and-canvas-on-ipad

[Deleted User]

Hi @Josh Moore, regarding your comment "not full feature note taking", could you please describe a little more in detail what kind of additional functionality you would like to see for taking notes with Apple Pencil?

Josh Moore

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1327697#Comment_1327697

@David Vela (Faithlife) the link below is a good place to start. https://support.apple.com/guide/ipad/draw-or-write-ipada87a6078/ipados

Jonathan Poland

Yes! This is a great idea! Highlighting on Logos with an iPad is frustrating as it is. This feature would be marvelous.

Adrian Huber

right now, the Apple Pencil is treated like a finger. Its not actually implemented in the functionality of the app. Id like to have features that actually make use of the Apple Pencil, to make reading on the logos app an experience that is not lacking behind even a free pdf reader. Actually studying on the app is not worth while, since annotating, circling, scribbling, all those things are not possible, or are possible but with so much friction that one actually doesn't do it. Studying the texts is better if I just screenshot them, and annotate them in a pdf reader. And that's certainly not what I want to do :(
for reading alone the app is fine, but for actually study its not.
There is so much potential here! please use it!

Please excuse my direct tone, im from Germany :D
god bless!

William Krewson

Apple Pencil. As a professor I would like to use your app for my students by circling text or writing words. I think this would be a feature that many professors would use in their classroom.

Rich Bailey

Yes indeed

Tom Vidal

It seems to me that the Apple Pencil has so much power to bridge the gap between flexibility of print resources and materials and the power of our digital tools. Everything related to my Christian walk, ministry, and theology goes into my Logos database. Everything. But being able to interact with Logos with the same ease and naturalness that I use to mark-up my print resources, would be idea. Enabling more fluid interaction between iPad and Logos resources would be most welcome in my view.