I carry around two different keyboards for my iPad. There it drops into a Ledetech stand so it’s raised to an appropriate height for ergonomics. I’ll even use my iPad sitting on my desk leaving my computer off. The removal of so much weight in my bag even makes running between home and Starbucks an enjoyable endeavour with a fully loaded bag. It’s also been freeing to know that for the price of the new education-focused iPad, I can replace my entire office and my bag is so so much lighter to carry around town as I switch work spaces. Those moments of weakness when it’s easy to switch on macOS just aren’t there on iOS, so instead I stay focused on the work I need to do. The longer I spend using the iPad only, the more I realize the extra friction that comes when task switching is a benefit. My iPad has become my primary computer for all my work. I use Bear here as well to keep track of my client notes and random digital bits. All my other task management is done in my Bullet Journal. I handle email with Spark mail and use Editorial to edit the single taskpaper file I use to track any task items that require a link to be kept around. I don’t have a good solution yet for this on my iPad, so I’ll end up using my phone to reference any chat going on as we talk about business. There is a bit of friction in this with an iPad in that I can’t access Slack and have video on my Zoom calls. Most of Friday is spent on various Zoom calls for my coaching clients. I use Brusfri as my denoise tool because it’s fast and available on iOS. One day a week I’ll spend the afternoon editing podcasts in Ferrite and then use Firefox and Ulysses to build the rest of the content for the podcast episodes. I’ll use Blink and the Mosh protocol to connect with my server and then use Vim on the server to do client work directly on our staging server. This requires Blink Shell, Ergo Web Tools, Dash, and Firefox. The afternoons are usually spent developing websites. Pixelmator is used when I’m combining a few things to build a content giveaway image and Canva is used to design PDFs or book covers. For the times I need to design something, I use Pixelmator or Canva from my iPad. I’ll use Workflow to resize and reduce the file size of images for my blog posts. That means Ulysses is open and I’ll be switching back and forth between Firefox and Ulysses for research purposes. After that I usually spend the morning writing for myself or some other publication. My day starts with some reading on the Kindle app with Ulysses in split mode so that I can take notes. How are you using your iPad on a daily basis? I usually have a picture of my kids up if I’ve bothered to change the wallpaper. Since I wiped it and reinstalled it a few months ago, I haven’t changed it. I have an original 9.7” iPad Pro in white with 128GB of storage. Second, I do web development, including some of the recent changes on The Sweet Setup. That means using apps like Ulysses and Scrivener. First, I write content as a freelancer for myself and for clients. I’m Curtis McHale, and I’ve been self-employed for 10 years. New setup interviews are posted every Monday follow us on RSS or Twitter to stay up to date. We do these interviews because not only are they fun, but a glimpse into what tools someone uses and how they use those tools can spark our imagination and give us an idea or insight into how we can do things better. Every week, we post a new interview with someone about what software they use on their Mac, iPhone, or iPad.
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