iOS How do people on TE use iPad for productivity in day to day life

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I am trying to get to use my iPad Pro M4 more ofen for productivity purposes. So wondering how do people on TE if own a iPad, use it in their day to day life for productivity purposes.

A template based answer or reply would help me and everyone to understand it much better. My primary focus if for iPad but if we have many Android Tab users, we can also add device and mention it in below template.

We can do it as below:
Used by: Student/Developer/Business/Startup/Founder/CEO/CTO/Marketing... (Profession mostly)
Device: iPad Pro M4 (optional)
Screen Size: 13" (for me)
Screen Protector: if using (optional)
Apps used: Procreate/ Note Taking apps or so...
Description: I use it to take notes, create work flow, meetings and scheduling, designing and what not ...
Resources: Any resources from where you learned to use it in your productivity activity.

For me, I want to start including it for creative flow for development, designing, note taking, and brainstorming if needed. I am not sure on how to use it for note taking or brainstorming.

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Device:
Screen Size:
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For note taking apple notes or notion is best, you can use it for creative workflows which will include photo editing on adobe apps you'll have to mention what creative work you want to do.

Honestly iPads are good for some last min changes if your work is client based.

While it has the horsepower to do heavy tasks, however due to crippling for Apple side to not step over Apple Macbook it is hard to completely use it to its full potential.
 
Used by: Myself, an IT professional
Device: iPad Pro 12.9" M1
Screen Size: 12.9-inch
Screen Protector: Yes
Apps used: Sidecar and Orion
Description: I use Apple Sidecar which allows me to have another screen for work. Super easy to connect and super helpful in boosting productivity. Other than that, I leverage Orion with a USB capture card to use the iPad as a monitor for either debugging a mini-PC deployed as a homeserver, or for an Xbox for casual gaming sessions when my primary monitors are occupied.
Resources: Sidecar and Orion
 
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For productivity, a keyboard folio pretty much a must have and completely transforms the usability of the device.
I have both the Apple smart keyboard and the keyboard folio.
The latter can often be found for under 10K during sales and while not as great as the floating smart keyboard , its pretty damn decent.
Its also lighter than Smart keyboard

There are third party units also available but they are thick/ bulky and end up killing the USP of the ipad
 
kewlboy9 said:
Used by: Myself, an IT professional
Device: iPad Pro 12.9" M1
Screen Size: 12.9-inch
Screen Protector: Yes
Apps used: Sidecar and Orion
Description: I use Apple Sidecar which allows me to have another screen for work. Super easy to connect and super helpful in boosting productivity. Other than that, I leverage Orion with a USB capture card to use the iPad as a monitor for either debugging a mini-PC deployed as a homeserver, or for an Xbox for casual gaming sessions when my primary monitors are occupied.
Resources: Sidecar and Orion
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This one looks interesting. I am planning to either use my iPad sometimes while recording, streaming or meetings as a duplicate screen and use pencil to draw or walk people through interaction. don't know if that works or not. but lets see.
 
kewlboy9 said:
Used by: Myself, an IT professional
Device: iPad Pro 12.9" M1
Screen Size: 12.9-inch
Screen Protector: Yes
Apps used: Sidecar and Orion
Description: I use Apple Sidecar which allows me to have another screen for work. Super easy to connect and super helpful in boosting productivity. Other than that, I leverage Orion with a USB capture card to use the iPad as a monitor for either debugging a mini-PC deployed as a homeserver, or for an Xbox for casual gaming sessions when my primary monitors are occupied.
Resources: Sidecar and Orion
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Don't have iPad but can't you use remote play for Xbox?
 
I don't have an ipad anymore- gave it to someone. Fantastic art and design apps, horrendous file system. Switched to Samsung s9. Apps not the best. Ended up giving both away. Probably will come back to ipad because there really is nothing quite like Procreate and Loopy Pro.

Used by: Me, a fella working in visual design
Device: Ipad A14
Screen Size: 11"
Screen Protector: Matte paperlike
Apps used: Procreate, Loopy Pro
Description: Was great as a sketching tool and for quickly jotting down ideas, but the file system and the difficulty in using it along with my Windows PC made me hate using it over time. Loopy Pro was wonderful for capturing music without the use of a full DAW setup. For media consumption the Samsung s9 was faaaaaar better.
 
ddeswal99 said:
Don't have iPad but can't you use remote play for Xbox?
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xbox remote, (unlike PS play remote) channels the stream via the cloud through its own servers even for local streaming.
Add the fact there are no local servers in India - and you get a really poor experience.

Ps remote play works great otoh because on local, you have very high bandwidth plus minimal latency
And even remotely, its not as bad as xbox because its a direct connection to your local IP
 
superczar said:
xbox remote, (unlike PS play remote) channels the stream via the cloud through its own servers even for local streaming.
Add the fact there are no local servers in India - and you get a really poor experience.

Ps remote play works great otoh because on local, you have very high bandwidth plus minimal latency
And even remotely, its not as bad as xbox because its a direct connection to your local IP
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superczar said:
xbox remote, (unlike PS play remote) channels the stream via the cloud through its own servers even for local streaming.
Add the fact there are no local servers in India - and you get a really poor experience.

Ps remote play works great otoh because on local, you have very high bandwidth plus minimal latency
And even remotely, its not as bad as xbox because its a direct connection to your local IP
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I read it sends over LAN, just needs internet to initiate. Maybe I'm wrong but nevertheless capture care if very low latency is best.
 
djo1093 said:
I use it to read books and most importantly store all my important documents in goodnotes
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I thought this was default thing people do with media and content consumption. anything else you use it for? :angelic: I am doing the same right now :P
 
ddeswal99 said:
I read it sends over LAN, just needs internet to initiate. Maybe I'm wrong but nevertheless capture care if very low latency is best.
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PS yes, xbox no
In fact since more than 50% of my gaming is away from TB, i sold an xbox Series X just because of that.
The traffic on xbox offical app continues to be routed out of your network (validated on firewall) and even though the app sees the bandwidth as high, the latency will be bad (SGP server routing) so it drops the bitrate to a terribly low number.

Having said that, there is an app called xbplay (this was launched after i sold the unit) that is supposed to use a forced LAN mode
 
Used by: Student
Device: Samsung tab S6 lite LTE
Screen Size: 10.4"
Screen Protector: None
Apps used: Deskreen, Obsidian, Ankidroid, Syncthing, Weylus
Description: Secondary monitor, taking notes with a bluetooth keyboard, memorising notes, additional backup for critical files, redundant smartphone, consuming media
 
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