I’ve written recently about how I create the diagrams in my blog posts and talks, and from discussions around that, a couple of people were interested more broadly in how I use my iPad Pro. So, on the basis that if two people are interested maybe others are (and if no-one else is, I have a copy-and-paste answer to give to those two people) here we go.

Kit

• iPad Pro 10.5" (2018)
  • 256GB model
  • Apple Pencil
  • Apple Keyboard
  • iPad wallet/protector
• Matte screen protector

Background

I travel quite a lot for work, so want something with a decent battery life for stuff like:

So you’ve got a code sample you want to share in a presentation, but whilst it looks beautiful in your text-editor with syntax highlighting, it’s fugly in Keynote? You could screenshot it and paste the image into your slide, but you just know that you’ll want to change that code, and end up re-snapshotting it…what a PITA.

Better to have a nicely syntax-highlighted code snippet that you can paste as formatted text into Keynote and amend from there as needed. Here’s how.