Imagine needing to write something in a hurry. Well, if you have a Galaxy Note, you can just pull out the S Pen and scribble on the lock screen. And well, you can do that on the iPhone and iPad ...

You can use the Pencil (or a finger) to draw or write directly on to a Pages document, which is handy for annotations on work documents, notes for collaborators and feedback on homework.

If you've ever wanted to create a new note in the Apple Notes app almost instantly, your iPad can do that — with the help of an Apple Pencil. Here's how.

You might yearn to pick up your iPad and scrawl some notes on its surface, but until recently you had few good options for doing so.

iPadOS 15 introduces a new Quick Note feature that lets you instantly create and compose a note in a floating window from anywhere. Apple markets Quick Note as an Apple Pencil trick, but all iPad ...

This makes it so you can create a note, and then send it straight to an ever growing "Journal.txt" file on Dropbox. Drafts is available for $1.99 for iPhone and $2.99 for iPad in the iTunes App Store.