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Not only will a stand help correct your bad posture, but with the right model-either one attached to an articulated arm or with a swiveling head-you can use your iPad in either portrait or landscape mode, and pair it with a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse (or trackpad) to gain even more control. Working that way for a few days might be well and good, but for longer periods of time, you’re just asking for a strained neck, uncomfortable back, and generally unpleasant feeling.īut an iPad on a stand? That’s a game-changer. If you’re using your iPad as your primary machine these days, you’re probably suffering from some pretty poor posture-you’re more hunched over with your neck tilted downward, perhaps. Using the keyboard in Split View gets a bit frustrating if you keep switching between apps, and not every app supports every multitasking mode. By repeating the process with a third app, you can layer it on top of either of the two apps, letting you have a word processor on one side, a calendar on the other, and your messaging app of choice on top of that. You can adjust the real estate each app takes up by sliding the central divider left or right. From there, you can select another app in the dock, long press it, and drag it up either on top of the current app, or next to it, enabling its Split View mode. To start using the iPad’s multitasking feature, open an app or place it in your iPad dock. You can operate up to three apps at a time, and drag and drop items like photos and email attachments between them. The iPad’s Split View feature puts two apps side-by-side, while its Slide Over feature will overlay an iPhone-shaped version of your app on a section of either your home screen or atop the app you’re already using. Whereas window management is a snap on a PC, on an iPad, you’ll be dragging apps, holding them in place, and swiping them to certain parts of the screen to keep your multitasking habits alive.
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Understanding how to manage your app windows is perhaps the most frustrating part of using an iPad as a replacement for your PC. For a more powerful text editor, check out Drafts, which can send the text you write to other apps, boosting your productivity and saving you time in the process. What about a word processor? Google Docs, the minimalist iA Writer, and the organization-friendly Scrivener all offer different takes when it comes to writing, drafting, and organizing text.
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Need a more powerful to-do list? Apple’s integrated Reminders app is free and suitable for day-to-day tasks, but apps like Todoist or Omnifocus offer multiple ways to restructure your priorities and projects you want to accomplish whether on the job or around the house. TextExpander can save you time typing repeated email responses, names, addresses, or forms by creating shortcuts corresponding to their longer stored sentences and paragraphs. Use an app like 1Password to access your protected online accounts on any device, on iOS, Mac, or PC. Need to send specific files or open certain links in particular apps and web browsers? Check out Opener, an app that lets you take advantage of the iOS share sheet (indicated by the box with an arrow sticking out of it). Some things are just easier to do on a PC-but that doesn’t mean they’re impossible to do on an iPad.
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The new Brydge Pro+ works with the iPad Pro and includes an integrated trackpad, while the Brydge Pro fits on the lower-end iPad, but lacks a trackpad.
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There’s also the series of wireless keyboards from Brydge, which affix to your iPad to turn it into a facsimile of a laptop. It adds a detachable keyboard and trackpad cover to the iPad, along with an adjustable kickstand akin to the Microsoft Surface - arguably more useful than Apple’s own Magic Keyboard and its inflexible posture. Keyboards like Logitech’s backlit Combo Touch turn your iPad into the closest thing to an iPad Pro without the added cost. You can also look to third-party keyboards for added functionality. iPads lacking the Pro moniker have an Apple-provided option when it comes to keyboards: the Smart Keyboard uses the tablet’s embedded Smart Connector, and doubles as a cover when not in use, but doesn’t feature any flexibility in terms of viewing angles. Apple makes its own keyboard covers with different features depending on the iPad you’re using: iPad Pro users can grab the trackpad-free Smart Keyboard Folio, or the trackpad-equipped Magic Keyboard Cover.
You can pair your own Bluetooth keyboard to your iPad and get your typing done that way, but you can also get yourself a keyboard cover that doubles as a case, and makes your iPad look more laptop-like than usual. But before you get a mouse to go clicking away, you should probably get a keyboard, too.
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