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hlritter
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Q: Use Apple Pencil in typed Notes document?

When I open a typed text document in Notes on my iPad Pro, there is no response to the Apple Pencil. When I tap on the "squiggle" in the lower right, it opens a new blank document with the Pencil menus.

 

Is there a way to use the Pencil in an existing typed text note?

MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2012), OS X Yosemite (10.10.1), 500 GB SSD

Posted on Jul 13, 2016 1:22 PM

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Q: Use Apple Pencil in typed Notes document?

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  • by MichelPM,

    MichelPM MichelPM Jul 13, 2016 6:32 PM in response to hlritter
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    Jul 13, 2016 6:32 PM in response to hlritter

    Not sure if this is possible in the Apple Notes app or not but there are plenty of other third party Notes apps that will let you combine hand written notes and sketches drawn with a stylus with typed notes.

     

    Do a search for Note apps and Apple pencil apps

     

    Good Luck!

  • by hlritter,

    hlritter hlritter Jul 13, 2016 7:55 PM in response to MichelPM
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    Jul 13, 2016 7:55 PM in response to MichelPM

    Thanks for the suggestion, Michael. I knew about these others but wanted to keep it simple for the moment.

     

    Actually, with some more diddling around I found that if you tap to place the insertion point in a block of text in Notes, then touch the squiggle in the upper right corner of the keyboard that appears, you get a blank page. If you draw on this page with finger or Pencil, then tap Done, the text returns with the drawing placed in a gap in the text beginning where the insertion point had been. Tapping alongside the drawing returns you to the drawing page, where you can erase or modify the drawing, then tap Done again. If you've erased the drawing, you have a gap in the text to backspace out.

     

    I haven't figured out how to do the opposite: Bring up the keyboard to add typed text to a drawing.