How to Take Handwritten Notes on an M1 MacBook Air
The One by Wacom graphics tablet for note-taking
I’m a man of a certain age. I’m hurtling towards my 52nd birthday at a rate of knots. Well, ‘hurtling’ may be a slight exaggeration. Especially with these old knees of mine. The point is, I’m a bit stuck in my ways. When it comes to taking notes, I’m a pen and paper kind of guy. And according to science, you should be too. Creating handwritten notes help the brain retain information. As you get older, you need all the help you can get.
There’s a flip side to this. I’m sure we all remember our student days. Mountains of notebooks containing unorganised scribblings which never saw the light of day again. In other words, they were pretty much a waste of time.
Modern technology has changed the rules. A tablet and a stylus mean one can create handwritten notes, organise those notes and even search within the notes. That technology doesn’t come cheap. I certainly cannot justify the purchase price of an iPad and Apple Pencil on top of my recent M1 MacBook Air (512/8/8 model) purchase. So that means I’m stuffed, right? Er, wrong.
Welcome to the cheap as chips One by Wacom tablet. Primarily designed as an educational graphics tablet, I wanted to see if it could transform the way I took notes on my MacBook Air.
