Editing The Pen Addict 274/transcript (section)

== iOS 11 Features ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Yeah, exactly. We will deal with that. So, in a hard transition. It's like an almost whiplash-like, but yeah. Yeah. I want to talk about one, maybe the most frivolous thing compared to a hurricane, is the Apple event. And the reason why I want to talk about it is because I didn't watch any of it. That's not really my thing. You know, I love my Apple products and my phone and my laptop and everything, but I don't get into the keynote launch-y type stuff like you do and a lot of our friends do. But my question came up after it was all done, was anything announced that analog lovers would appreciate, say, about new iOS or the new phones or anything like that?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Well, there wasn't anything announced yesterday that I think really has an impact in any way. But there are some features in iOS 11, which comes out next week, which I did just want to mention because there are quite a few Apple Pencil improvements. So, one of them, there's no new hardware, by the way. Like, that's just a thing. No new Apple Pencil stuff. Gotcha. But it's better pencil functionality in many places throughout the system. So, in the Notes app now, you can now draw on a note in line. You don't have to enter a drawing mode and, like, add the drawing in. You can just draw in the note as soon as you put the pencil on the screen. You can also, if you tap an Apple Pencil on the lock screen, so, like, if you wake your device and tap a pencil on it, it opens a new note or the previously used note without you needing to enter a password or anything. So, it becomes really easy to start taking notes with the device. You don't have to even unlock it. You can just start drawing. There's also a system-wide markup feature. So, a lot more apps are implementing the markup toolkit. But even better than that is with screenshots now, you take a screenshot and you can immediately go into an editing mode. So, you take a screenshot, especially on iPad, and it just, the screenshot kind of shrinks down to the bottom left of the screen. It doesn't save it in your camera roll. And you can open it and you can draw on it and you can mark it up and you can send it off and then you can just delete the screenshot all in the same view, which is really awesome. The screenshot feature is awesome. And Apple Pencil is making all of that stuff better.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' You know, I was learning. Yeah. So, that's actually something I will use. It's something I do use now. So, the markup toolkit is a big thing for me.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Then you're going to love it because it's going to be in a lot of other places. But the best thing is that you can just take a screenshot of anything and use it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Okay. Cool. Very cool. So, you're going to be a fan of it. Yes. So, like, I was totally out of that loop with the week I've had. So, yeah, I wanted to catch and see if there was anything like that coming down the pipe that I should be looking forward to. So, I appreciate that. And I appreciate all of our listeners letting me do that because I was curious.

'''Myke Hurley:''' This week, like, this week, iPhone week, is the week where every show I do, no matter what it is, it sneaks in. Every single show. Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. All of them. Exactly. Exactly. There's always something that we can cross-pollinate and something I'm curious about and things like that. Something our listeners are curious about and especially our Kickstarter backers are curious about is the Field Notes event we're having coming up on October the 13th. In October. Uh-huh. Yeah. I noticed this morning we're on the Field Notes calendar, Myke. They sent out a tweet this morning, upcoming events. So, we threw that in the show notes if you want to see that. So, here's what we're going to do. The recording is going to be at 12 o'clock noon on Friday, October 13th. And we are limiting it. Well, we're not limiting it. The space is limiting it to 25 people. That means there's a lot of us already headcounted into that. Yep. So, we're going to open up 15 spots for Kickstarter backers. And I'm going to email a note to Kickstarter backers today who are going to be in Chicago or live in Chicago or can get there for noon on Friday for the live recording. Mm-hmm. And if we have more than 15 people that can guarantee me they're going to be there, we'll have to do a lottery. And I'll randomly select the people that can come to the live recording. Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And this is a thing that you will have to have a ticket for. We need to be really strict about this because of limitations on the space that we're going to be recording in. And so, there will be tickets assigned and or proof of ticket required. Yeah. There will be a list. But this isn't the only thing that we're doing. So, we're recording the show. And then, you know, that will be done. But then at 4 o'clock, Field Notes are opening their doors because they're amazing. And we're doing an open house with them. So, like an open house slash meetup. And we'll be there. A bunch of RelayFM hosts are going to be there because loads of us are in town. For the Release Notes event, like conference. So, there's going to be a bunch of people. I think, I assume that it will be at least me and you, Federico Vatici, Stephen Hackett, and Jason Snell, I think. At least we'll be there. Nice. So, we'll all be hanging out and you can come along. But, yeah, that will be an open to anyone. Anyone can come by at 4 o'clock. But for the live show, there's going to be a very small audience that we're going to be able to have in there. We are going to attempt to be live streaming, of course. So, we're going to do our best to try and live stream the event. Will that be our show this week?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That will be our show for that week, yes. Okay. And then the backers will get the video of the event. The backers will get a video, yeah. Okay. Cool. So, just quick recap. October the 13th at noon, we're recording the live podcast shooting the video for the Pen Addict backers from our Kickstarter campaign. We're going to have 15 tickets open. And I'm going to send out the information on how to apply for that this afternoon. Starting at 4 o'clock, and from 4 to 7, I think, was the time frame. It's wide open. Anyone who would like to come hang out with us at Field Notes, see Jim, Brian, check out the new Field Notes HQ, which I haven't seen. I just saw it under construction. So, I'm anxious to see it. Buy stuff. They're going to have food and drink there. I'm trying to work out something a little special. I'm not sure if I can pull it off, so I'm not ready to say it yet. But if I can pull that off, it's going to be pretty awesome. I hope to be able to do that. So, from 4 to 7 is the open house time. If you can't make it to the 12 o'clock event or didn't get a ticket assigned to you for the 12 o'clock event. So, we good? We good on that?

'''Myke Hurley:''' I think so. So, yeah, if you're a Kickstarter backer, keep an eye on your email inbox because there's going to be an update going out which has more information about how you can come by.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep. All right. Cool. Well, I'm excited. It's one of those things that we knew it was coming down the line, then all of a sudden it's close, and now we're all panicking. So, yeah. It's good. It's good. So, this probably should have gone next to the Apple event, but I wanted to talk about Moleskine's new planner technology that they've released, I guess, about a week ago. And we missed talking about it last week. But I saw it this past weekend. And, again, it's just one of those things that seems really good for, like, the two people that will use it. Right? It is hyper-specific use case, I think. So, it's essentially you get the Moleskine, you get their PIN, which is, you know, like the LiveScribe system, and then you get a proprietary planner that will sync with your Google Calendar. I think, in theory, that's pretty awesome. Like, I like to be able to write stuff down, and it ends up in my calendar. But this is so specific. Like, how could I justify, you know, another 200 bucks to write things in my calendar? Myke, am I missing something here?

'''Myke Hurley:''' These products, to me now, I see them as part product, part marketing, on Moleskine's part. I think what they are trying to do is position themselves as bridging the gap between technology and paper. Which, honestly, I think is the correct move for them as a company right now. Sure. Because they are furthering their attempt at becoming the default business notebook. And a way that they can do that is to bridge technology and paper. Because this is the dream, right? That, like, you can take notes and have the notes with you wherever you go. Like, it's great. And this is a cool piece of technology. Like, if it works, we haven't used it. The ability to be able to, whilst you're taking notes, write down things. Like, so you're taking notes in a meeting and, like, oh, we need to meet at this time. We need to go over another thing. And you can just write it down and it appears in your calendar. Like, that's kind of wonderful. I mean, this stuff isn't cheap, but it's getting cheaper. And also, if you're already in the system, right? Like, if you're already using these Moleskine smart stuff, you can just buy this new planner and it apparently will work with the existing stuff that you've got. Which we have played with and is really good. Do you remember? We played with it a year ago. I don't think it was... Yeah. ...device I've used related to this type of work. It was wonderful. Like, wonderfully good working piece of equipment. So, the fact that this stuff is getting better quite quick, they may as well just keep pushing down this line, even if they're just inching their way towards, like, honestly, like, just an incredible product. Right? I figured this is the right thing to do, even though I assume not many people are using it, but it's expensive enough that you're going to get a bunch of people that will buy it for the fun of it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' You know? Yeah. So, when I found this article, I found a different article relating to Moleskine wanting to partner and incubate a group of technology companies that want to work on this analog plus digital pairing. So, it's clearly this is the path they're going down. Like, they're going to push this hard. They're looking for companies that can help them evolve these things. So, you know, maybe one day we will actually use these types of devices. But it's always... It's just so... You're just so locked in for, like, our audience. Right? We like all kinds of different things. We don't stick to one pen and one paper. So, it's hard to justify the cost to be completely tied into something like this. But I get it. Like, I certainly get it. And, you know, maybe that'll never be our audience, if you will. But maybe we'll get close. Maybe we'll be able to use other things. You know? The dream scenario is to be able to use any pen, any paper, anytime and have it transferred digitally somehow. Yeah. But that's never going to happen, is it? We're not done.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Right? Like, how could you use any pen and any paper? Like, there has to be something. Right? There has to be a thing. Even if it's, you know, you clip something to something or whatever.