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Ask HN: How to make most produdctive use of new iPad?

7 points by ss108 ↗ HN
New iPad, gift from my company, just arrived. I would like to know how to make some productive use of this device. Should I use it for notes? Just to read books? I don't know what the potential is here.

CAN I MINE CRYPTO ON IT?! /s

I don't have any other Apple devices. It is a personal iPad they bought just as a gift, so there is no company bloatware/spyware on it, and I can thus do with it what I want.

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gregjor
You can find thousands of videos on YouTube showing things people do with iPads. You can watch those videos on the iPad.
jaclaz
You mean what Apple allows you to do, I believe, unless you want to jailbreak it and lose warranty (and provided that a jailbreak exist for your specific model).
ss108
Pretty much. I don't know what end-goal of jailbreaking would be sufficiently enticing to lead me to consider doing so; that's the sort of thing I started this thread to find out lol

But yes, I mostly just want to know how other people have made good use of iPad aside from "oho, now I can watch videos and movies at my kitchen table" or whatever

cpach
It’s a nice reading device. I would mainly use it to read news articles, documentation, maybe some books.

You can also install an SSH client such as Prompt by Panic. Then you can connect it to a VPS or whatever.

https://panic.com/prompt/

mitjam
Turn the question upside down: Reflect on how you work right now and ask yourself: How can I improve my productivity? Then think about ways to implement your ideas. Chances are, the iPad turns out to be a great tool for some of them. This may not only be due to its specific strengths compared to other tools. You can also leverage that it is new and interesting to you. For example, attach a habit you want to build to using the iPad.