Week 364 was posted by Charanjit Chana on 2024-10-14.
When Smart Script was announced, I wasn't sure if it would be an Apple silicone exclusive but thankfully it hasn't been.
It has it's quirks on my iPad mini which has an A15 chip and not a desktop-class processor, but overall it's pretty good.
Does it resemble my own handwriting? Not particularly, but it's certainly more legible and smart enough to ask for corrections. Maybe a result of not have a M-series chip, but it can take a few seconds to catch up which has had an impact on how I write now. I have to pause so that I don't get in the way.
Drawing arrows or dashes for indentation can confuse it and I never found drawing arrows and holding at the end reliable enough so I've got to think of a new way to format some of my notes.
It's great that you can select words or entire sections and choose to refine them specifcally. Sometimes it doesn't do anything after a pause or a forced refinement but more often than not it's pretty good.
What I'd improve about Smart Script
Suggestions are great, as I mentioned, but they are sometimes wrong with no option to correct them yourself. This means erasing and writing it again, but the ability to actually just type in the correct word would be great.
Tags: ipad mini