With the arrival of the Magic Observe Pad, XPPen introduces one more instrument for lecturers, working professionals and artists to boost their inventive ecosystems and maximize their skilled workflows. Combining an X-Paper show with the superior X3 Professional Pencil 2 stylus, a custom-designed note-taking app and an open Android ecosystem, the world’s first 3-in-1 Shade Observe Pad affords an unparalleled digital writing expertise that redefines trendy work practices.
Engineered with 16.7 million colours and a sophisticated 90Hz refresh fee, XPPen’s cutting-edge 3-in-1 X-Paper show delivers distinctive fluidity, sensible saturation and readability and ultra-smooth movement by way of three distinctive coloration modes (Ink Paper, Mild Shade and Nature Shade Mode). The upgraded X3 Professional Pencil 2 affords 16K stress ranges, customizable shortcuts and responsive EMR expertise. Engineered for the paper-like writing expertise, the X3 Professional Pencil 2 incorporates a refined mushy nib design that glides effortlessly throughout the show. When utilized in tandem with the XPPen Notes APP, customers profit from an extremely {smooth}, immersive writing expertise that transcends the unusual.
Since its grand debut in March, the Magic Observe Pad has garnered a status for its sensible utility throughout industries, serving as a logistical instrument for academic {and professional} work environments. XPPen tapped London-based author and creator Vicky Zimmerman — identified for the best-selling novel, Pear Formed (written below the pseudonym Stella Newman), and her physique of journalism and reporting throughout prestigious publications corresponding to The Guardian, The Observer, Area Homme Plus, POP Journal and extra — to speak in regards to the intricacies of her writing apply. Jackson Ng, Senior Barrister and Accomplice at a world regulation agency, additionally met up with the model to talk about his expertise elevating his work with trendy productiveness instruments that assist handle and consolidate his each day duties as a advisor with a concentrate on civil and industrial litigation.
Within the dialog beneath, the duo focus on how they handle hectic work output, prioritizing effectivity and an uninterrupted circulation state with the Magic Observe Pad.
XPPen: How would you describe your self?
Vicky Zimmerman: I’m Vicky Zimmerman and I’m a author. I additionally write below the title of Stella Newman. I’ve had 5 novels revealed. My first one was ten years in the past. It was a bestseller known as Pear Formed. My work has been translated into eight completely different languages and been revealed all around the world. I at all times wished to be a author, however my household thought I ought to have a correct job. So I did a lot of jobs earlier than I turned a author.
My books are about relationships, so I feel they need to attraction to women and men equally. However I feel the best way that fiction is marketed is commonly sure coloured books for women. So pink books for women and blue books for boys. And I feel that’s an unlucky facet product of selling. However my books are to be loved by anybody and everybody.
Jackson Ng: My title is Jackson. I’m a barrister and I’m additionally a neighborhood councillor with a neighborhood authorities. Personally, I’m very very dedicated to justice and advocacy. I at all times wish to use my authorized and political platforms and expertise to uplift folks, to vary folks’s lives. My father served within the public sector in Singapore. My mom was an Indonesian Chinese language refugee. Each of them formed my understanding of what public service meant. I used to be serving to make authorized choices and authorized technique about easy methods to assist people and firms.
And I’ve come to comprehend in British society, there tends to be a lack of know-how of British Chinese language communities, Chinese language communities and enterprise setting, and that sparked my transition into politics. I feel to essentially have an effect on change, I have to convey our British Chinese language perspective into authorities.
XPPen: How do you seize and arrange concepts when inspiration strikes?
Vicky: As a novelist, you undergo many levels in what you wish to write, whether or not that’s a thoughts map at the beginning of a undertaking, or you probably have an concept in the midst of a commute and you’re determined to get it down, or if you wish to write longhand in a extra considerate method.
It’s really easy these days to sort. Once I sort, I can write a number of phrases in a short time, however truly I get one of the best concepts and one of the best writing when I’m utilizing a pen as a result of I feel it takes that further time to go out of your mind by way of your hand, and it makes you slightly extra considerate. In order a lot as I wish to rush it, the work is healthier after I write it down.
Vicky Zimmerman
Vicky Zimmerman
XPPen: To your specific work circulation, how do you keep effectivity in such demanding roles?
Jackson: The true key level right here I feel if you’re balancing many balls within the air, you could be very organized. So I depend on productiveness instruments like each day checklists and notes to have my [brainstorms] synced onto the cloud. The knowledge that I put onto my pill is then synced onto my wished platform, permitting me to handle tasks after I’m touring between the workplace and the court docket the place I’m a politician and even doing worldwide journey.
For instance, I may very well be knocking on tons of of doorways, speaking to every resident about what’s occurring inside a sure neighborhood that requires me to stroll lengthy distances and work outside. So, I wouldn’t wish to carry an excessive amount of stuff round. However having a pill that enables me to learn in itself outside permits me to work fairly rapidly. I convey it alongside simply to knock down home No. 5 — what do they consider the native college, what do they consider native highway repairs. It’s finally synced onto a cloud, the place my political help can entry this observe nearly on an actual time foundation. That’s very useful for me.
XPPen: Having used the Magic Observe Pad in your day-to-day workflows, what options are you most impressed by?
Vicky: The Magic Observe Pad, you are able to do any a type of issues. I actually love the pencil. It’s received a really mushy nib, so it feels utterly pure. Whether or not you’re doing a thick stroke or a really outlined line, it’s only a utterly pleasurable expertise, actually pure, very easy, and you may rub it out. The display feels similar to paper. With the pen and the display mixed, it’s similar to writing with ink on a chunk of paper.
The Magic Observe Pad makes use of the Google ecosystem so with one click on, you possibly can obtain no matter apps you need — whether or not that’s for enjoyable or for work, it’s seamless. The three coloration mode and the benefit you possibly can change between these modes.
The Nature Shade Mode is nice for watching leisure, after which, if I wish to learn, Mild Shade Mode is rather more mild to only calm down with. After which after I’m writing, I actually just like the e-ink mode as a result of it’s very crisp and sharp and good to make use of.
One actually cool factor is that it’s received this one click on perform on the pen. So you probably have an excellent concept and also you wish to jot it down rapidly, you press this little button on the pen, contact the display, and also you’re straight into notes. It’s actually good pondering.
Jackson Ng
Jackson Ng
Jackson Ng
I’ve a really lively mind. I think about all people do. I can solely communicate for myself, but when I don’t write one thing down, it will get misplaced. I feel it’s key to jot down issues down rapidly, and it actually helps me keep organized. When it comes to productiveness. I really like this product as a result of every part is in a single place. I can simply put one factor in my bag. I don’t want notepads and separate books. It’s all there and I can seize all my concepts. Notably after I’m touring, it’s simply superb portability and it’s very streamlined, writing issues down and taking them off. Personally I simply discover it very satisfying: begin small, write issues down into manageable chunks and keep off your cell phone.
Jackson: I’m truly fairly previous, so truly I grew up utilizing a pen and a fountain pen and a pencil to take notes, and even to college within the early elements of my profession. It was very a lot handwriting stuff. So I actually like this pill as a result of the reasonable paper-like strategy permits me to jot down fairly naturally together with this nice pen. It’s nice for studying lengthy periods of authorized paperwork or political paperwork with out inflicting eyestrain. In fast-paced environments, like doing court docket hearings, it’s capable of jot down stuff fairly rapidly with out worrying about working out of paper.
It then permits me to principally cross reference it fairly simply by search or conversion into textual content. I feel this mix of conventional writing and clever expertise helps me be environment friendly. 3-in-1 coloration modes adapt to numerous eventualities. You’ve got the pure coloration mode, which may be very brilliant, vivid, true-to-color for multimedia, after which there may be the sunshine coloration mode, which is mild, a low saturation show for extended consolation however it’s coloured. After which you’ve the e-ink type of mode, which is basic black and white, very very like the sensation of paper. Sharing between these modes with a easy click on of the button permits me to maneuver seamlessly from completely different working environments. Very often I’m strolling and speaking and taking a look at paperwork on the identical time. I’ve additionally found this perform the place you possibly can press the pen after which it mechanically brings you straight into the observe writing perform.
For me, I feel an clever ecosystem is essential. It permits notes, documentation, drawing, pictures which might be synced and built-in with the cloud. It permits collaboration between completely different customers. In the end, that is how a note-taking ecosystem can revolutionize productiveness, as a result of it simplifies the best way we work, it simplifies workflow for all types of customers, whether or not it’s professionals like myself, college students, and even inventive minds.
