A client rang and asked for some changes to a document when I was at a press conference. If, say, I’m away from home and have an idea, I can jot down notes on the phone, then polish them into a story on my Mac. You’ll need to set things up in advance, but once it is working it feels almost like magic.Īlthough I’ve only been using Continuity with Pages 5.5 for a little over a week, I’ve already noticed a huge productivity gain. However, Continuity takes this a step further with handoff between devices. Save documents in iCloud from one device, then open them from another. Or you can make last-minute edits to a document that started life on your Mac with your iPad. That means if you have an iPad or an iPhone and a Mac, you can start writing something on your iPhone and polish it off later on the Mac. Mac, iPad, iPhone integrationĪpple changes to Pages 5.0 - some critics call it ‘dumbing down’ - brought the desktop version more in-line with the iOS version. Not everyone was happy when Apple first redesigned Pages because the company took out many of the more complex features, although some of these came back in a later refresh. That’s good for writers like me who prefer minimal word processing apps. However, the move to Pages 5.0 means the application now works better as a more conventional word processor.Ĭompared to Microsoft Word:mac 2011, Pages 5 is stripped back. You can design great looking documents if that’s what you want from your writing tools. When it first appeared, Pages was as much about page layout as writing. It has been rewritten from the ground up. Although Pages 5 shares a name with the earlier Pages ’09 and key elements are familiar, the code is all new. Pages has been through a major update since last year’s Mac writing tools round-up. I guess the others will follow.Īs you’d expect Continuity already works well with Apple’s Pages word processor. Some app developers say they promise to include it in future upgrades. Not every writing app handles Continuity at the time of writing. You could start writing on a Mac, continue on an iPad and polish on an iPhone. It means you can move between devices while writing or editing a document without losing a beat. In Apple’s words “Continuity seamlessly links documents” on different Apple devices. One change is Continuity: part of iOS 8 and OS X 10.10. Writing on Apple computers has evolved since I looked at Mac writing apps in September 2013.
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