Summary

  • Freeform is a collaborative whiteboard app created by Apple that is available on iOS, iPadOS, and macOS.
  • The app allows users to create notes and visualize information in a flexible and unstructured way through the use of different media types.
  • The most important feature of the app is scenes, which allows users to create jump points to specific views on their boards.
  • While reading a book, the user can create a new project on a new Freeform board and add the book’s cover image in the center of the canvas.
  • Around the cover image, the user can map out the content of the book, listing the chapters and capturing the main takeaway from each chapter.
  • Key quotes and themes can be pinned using sticky notes, which can be resized, colored, or filled with emojis.
  • The app also enables users to create mindmaps and character maps, track recurring themes, and easily navigate between different sections of their book notes using the scenes navigator.
  • Freeform offers a variety of text tools and decorative fonts, along with geometric shapes and connectors for creating visual aids, tracking characters, and illustrating relationships between them.

By Saikat Basu

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