Hi, this is Gary with MacMost.com.
On this episode let's look at the new functionality in iOS 9 that let's you add sketches in the
Notes app.
So here I am in the Notes app in iOS 9 on my iPad.
Now I started a note here and one of the new cool features of iOS 9 is you can go beyond
text and actually draw sketches in Notes.
Which makes sense right.
You want to take notes and you may actually want to draw something.
Notice at the top of the keyboard that there are some additional buttons.
That's the new shortcuts bar.
I'm going to talk more about that in a future video.
But for now notice to the far right is a little squiggly line, just above the delete key,
and that allows you to go into sketch mode.
So you can see where the cursor is just under one line of text.
I'm going to hit that button there and now I go into the sketch mode where I can draw
something.
So you can see there is a set of tools at the bottom.
The first three are different types of pens.
I can select which one I want and it's a little taller than the others.
With one selected and also a color, you can see an outline around black there, I can simply
draw on the screen.
It will draw whatever I want.
The different pens have slightly different styles of drawing.
So you can use those and then of course you can switch colors.
Now when drawing it is even more important to be able to Undo than when you do text because
it is so much easier to make mistakes.
Sure enough at the top left there you can see Undo and Redo buttons.
So I can hit Undo here and undo each step of the drawing.
I can use the Redo button, to the right of that, to put it back.
So it is very useful to be able to do that.
So if you are like me your drawing skills are very limited.
What can help you do sketches is this ruler tool at the bottom.
I'm going to tap that and you can see it just jumps up a little bit and you get this ruler
on the screen.
You still can use a regular pen with it.
You can tap and drag that around with one finger.
With two fingers you can actually change the angle.
So you can get it to exactly where you want and then what can you do with it?
Well, if you draw near the edge it will draw it as a straight line.
So I can still draw out here but I could draw near the edge here and it will lock to this
line.
Let me draw lines.
It is very easy to draw parallel lines like that.
Turn it.
Draw another line.
Using that it is very easy to sketch things that have straight lines.
You also, of course, have an eraser here.
You can use that then to just draw through all the stuff that you've got there.
In addition, if you do select a pen not only do you have these colors here but you can
swipe.
You can see those three dots under there.
I can swipe for another set of colors and then a set of grays there.
So you have more options to choose from.
When you are done with the sketch you can tap the Done button.
Then you can see it there.
I can still type more text.
I can type text after it and before it and I can select that, just tap it, and it will
go back into editing mode so I can easily go ahead and edit this again.
Now when I'm here I can rotate.
I've got a button in the upper right hand corner that will rotate ninety degrees and
I have a Share button.
So in addition to being a sketch inside of Notes I can still use that Save Image button
to save it to my Camera Roll.
I can send it by message or a social media network like Facebook, even AirDrop.
So a lot of different ways you can use these.
You can actually use the Notes app to draw sketches and then use them later to send out,
say, as a message.
So it's actually a way to just sketch something and then send a text message really quickly
with that sketch in it.
Some more tips here.
When you are editing a sketch you can actually use two fingers and pinch apart to zoom in
on it and then actually draw things that are more precise inside there.
You can even bring up the ruler and the ruler is the same size but you can make a drawing
there and then shrink everything down.
Then when you are done note that you can actually have more than one sketch inside of a note.
So I can do another sketch here and you can see that this note now has two different sketches
in it.