So in Australia this second-generation Apple Pencil costs $200. That's the equivalent of 24 96
page notebooks or 465 HB pencils or 25 316 sheets of A4 paper from Officeworks. So is it really
worth buying? Welcome back to the channel guys, if you're new here my name is Nick and I'm into all
things tech, business, and reading and today I'm going to try and answer the age-old question that
writers have been battling over for centuries and that is is the Apple Pencil really worth buying.
Now just to let you know my purpose in owning an iPad is mainly for productivity purposes.
I actually did a whole another video on that if you're interested you can check that out
but i say that to give you a bit of a frame of reference as to where i'm coming from
in my thoughts on whether or not I think the Apple Pencil is actually worth it. You might
have entirely different uses and purposes for your Apple Pencil in which case you might find
the Apple Pencil much more useful or much less useful depending on what you use it for but for
me I generally use it for productivity purposes and that's the reference point i'm going to make
this video based on. So to save you watching the entire video I'll tell you straight up yes
I find the apple pencil to be worth it for me and overall the reason for that is because of the
reduction in friction that the pencil brings into my life and what i mean by that is in the past
when i wanted to do things like do some journaling or take some notes or even just do a little bit of
art, the amount of effort that it would take to do those things was enough of a barrier for
me it's a really lazy person to not actually do them at all whereas because I'm often carrying
my iPad around with me and I can just easily clip the apple pencil onto the side of the iPad
it's always there and ready to go I can just pull it off and start writing or doing whatever I want
to do so for example if I wanted to create a journaling habit and I was wanting to use a
traditional pen and journal then chances are for me personally I probably wouldn't be bothered
carrying around the journal with me everywhere I'd probably just leave it at home my bedside table
so half the time even when I wanted to do some journaling I can't do it if I'm not in my bedroom
and then even if I am in my bedroom I have to make sure the pencil is sharp I have to make
sure there's enough pages in the journal and of course I have to periodically buy new pencils
and new journals and of course these are all relatively minor things but for someone like me
they just add up quite quickly and end up becoming berries in which I don't even end up generally at
all however since I'm often carrying my iPad around with me whether it's at work or at home
I can just quickly unlock it and I've got an unlimited journal in which I can quickly start
writing away in and that reduction in kind of the barrier to entry for doing things like that for me
is what has made the apple pencil really valuable and so in the rest of this video,
I'm just going to break down some of the different things that i practically use my apple pencil for
it'll be less of a technical review and more of a practical review in case you're interested in
the types of things that i actually find the pencil useful for and things that you
might find also useful for so there are really four main things that I use my apple pencil for
and that is learning brainstorming journaling and a little bit of art now again you may do all four
of these things or you may do none of these things although i hope you do a little bit of learning
somewhere but these are just the four areas that i have personally found the apple pencil to be most
useful so it may be different in your personal situation so first up in the learning department
I found the apple pencil really good in terms of taking notes when I'm learning something new
for example i might be learning something in a class or might be learning something new at work
or I might be taking notes from a book that I'm reading at the moment and you've probably heard
the fact that handwriting things rather than typing things actually helps with your memory
and recall and I've personally found this to be quite true it makes me really wish
that I had this iPad back in my uni days and the pencil back in the days because I really
struggled to remember a lot of what i typed at on my laptop in a lot of those classes maybe
that's just university I don't know but either way, I've definitely found handwriting notes
really helps me remember things better and also understand things better pretty much
all the notes I take i take in good notes which I find to be a really great note-taking app I'll
if i can quickly just select your pen your size your color you can change your highlight color
and it just feels really great to write on the ipad i love how you can use the eraser or the
undo tool to quickly correct your mistakes rather than just scribbling it out in a physical journal
and it's also cool that you can import documents into good notes like pdfs or images and you can
mark them up and write all over them which again would have been really handy for me in uni but
unless I've graduated so overall I find the apple pencil to be a really great tool for learning
so the second thing that i really love about the apple pencil is brainstorming on my ipad again
I use good notes for brainstorming but I love to be able to draw out a bit of a brain map in good
notes particularly with my youtube channel as i'm always looking for new ideas and trying to think
of new ideas for videos and getting my ideas out of my head onto paper in a more structured manner
really helps me to capture ideas that I've already thought of but also think outside the box a little
bit and come up with even more new ideas of course i do all of this brainstorming stuff in a separate
journal in good notes another thing i love about good notes is the fact that you can create
basically unlimited journals with different covers and styles it's really cool that's a different
whole different youtube video. Now the third thing that I really love about my apple pencil is
journaling and to be honest journaling is actually the thing that i use my apple pencil the most for
for most of my adult life i've kept a journal kind of on and off over the years and it's been really
good because i'm a person who tends to get a bit stuck in my own head and thoughts and so getting
it out on paper or on the screen really helps me to clear my head and it's really therapeutic
experience for me but i have noticed that using a pen rather than typing on a keyboard really helps
me to get my thoughts and feelings out more clearly somehow i'm not exactly sure how that
works but I originally started writing in paper journals and I quickly amassed a stack of journals
and that's what made me go to digital i started typing my journal just on my laptop but the iPad
and the apple pencil is kind of the best of both worlds because you can write like you would in a
journal but it's all stored digitally so you don't have a massive pile of old notebooks that you're
just storing away in storage and the other really cool thing is that within Goodnotes you can search
digitally through all your handwritten notes which is super handy and useful. Finally the last thing
that i use my upper pencil for is creativity and a little bit of art now i create all of my youtube
thumbnails now in Procreate and the apple pencil is pretty much an indispensable tool when you're
using Procreate now i used to use photoshop for my thumbnails and it's probably a better program
to create thumbnails in but Procreate is just so much cheaper it's a one-off payment of like twelve
dollars you've got it for life whereas Photoshop as you're probably aware is quite expensive and
it's a monthly ongoing subscription i've always loved drawing a little bit of painting as well
and so i find procreate the best program for just doing a little bit of drawing when i feel like it
a little bit of art and i find that really relaxing and therapeutic i probably should do
a bit more of it to be honest so there you have it for me and my lifestyle and what i want to
achieve the apple pencil is really great addition i think again it wouldn't be the end of the world
if i didn't have it because the iPad on its own is still a really great product but let me know
do you have an apple pencil what do you use it for do you think it's worth buying because of course
there are so many different uses for an apple pencil and everyone will use it for something
slightly different so i'm really keen to hear what you use yours for if you're interested in more
videos relating to things like iPads and tech then be sure to check out my tech playlist and other
than that, i hope you have an absolutely great day and I'll see you very soon in the next video.