Users express strong frustration with the Notion iPad app's usability, especially with the Apple Pencil, where handwriting is frequently misinterpreted as a block-dragging action, making it...

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        "excerpt": "Better than what though? The iPad app is the version where Apple Pencil strokes get read as block drags, and where you can't even rename a workspace. If handwriting is the whole reason you bought the Pencil, Apple Notes and GoodNotes do it properly and Notion doesn't.",
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        "excerpt": "better than what exactly? better than your phone, sure, congrats. but the pencil is right there in your photo and thats the exact thing notion is terrible at on ipad. you write two words with it and it decides you're dragging a block instead, then the page starts scrolling on its own. same lottery with a finger, you grab one block and get another. so its better as long as you're only reading pages",
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