I have tried often to use the Apple Pencil Scribble feature successfully. My results vary. Occasionally, it works fine, but more often than not, it ends up being a frustrating experience. I’m trying to determine if this is a user problem or a feature deficiency.
I’m curious if anyone else uses Scribble on the iPad and, if so, have you been successful?
Scribble works reasonably well in things 3 for me.
I do okay with it unless I run out of room or hesitate. My handwriting isn’t great, but it’s mostly understood. I prefer voice input when I’m trying to focus with iPad + pencil, but it’s not always possible.
Can you comment specifically on what is frustrating?
For example, one aspect that frustrated me with most drawing apps on the iPad is the pressure sensitivity feature. If I am annotating on a document, I want consistency in line stroke regardless of my pressure. At one point, I purchased a different, off-brand pencil specifically because it lacked the ability to be pressure sensitive, especially for those apps that did not allow me to turn off pressure sensitivity.
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JJW
I use it quite a bit. It mostly works well for me, it’s even great at recognition of cursive writing. I have no problem getting most characters recognized; however, special characters (symbols) are a little tougher, and editing text is challenging. As far as running out of space, what I’ve discovered is if a text box is too small, it doesn’t matter. Once you start writing in scribble, you can write across the whole ipad screen. If you skip down a line, though, it treats it like an actual new line.
I sometimes, rather than scroll instagram, will practice things like scribble. Because it does work nicely when you get used to it, other than the editing part. If Apple could improve that and make it smoother, this really could be something one relies on more.
It is probably a user problem, but it often creates spaces I don’t want to combines words intended to be separated.
It sounds like I just need to practice more. 
I was really excited by this when they released it but it didn’t work for me the way I needed it to. I found myself waiting for that micro-second when it transformed into typed text to see what it came up with. It really slowed me down and I found it very difficult to take notes in meetings with it. Now i take notes in my chicken scratch and then pop it into ChatGPT where it does a really good job of deciphering my hand writing
I’m not trying to convince anybody to use this, but the trick that I use is to watch the pencil as if I were writing on paper. So, I watch my ink, and then after I’ve finished my clause or whatever, I’ll go back and look at the resulting text. I don’t pay any attention to the transformation process until later. That makes the process better.
I’ve also observed that some apps don’t deal with scribble very well. I don’t know how an “app” would have control over an OS level experience, but it seems like it does. For example, I’ve tried to use it to take notes in Logos with limited success. For example, I opened a document in Logos and tried to type: “This as a new paragraph that I wrote in Scribble.” I could NOT get the word “Scribble” to be recognized in either cursive or print in Logos. But it came across just fine in Apple Notes and on this forum.
I typed several sentences of this post in Scribble. I would have done it all, but I found myself moving text around, which is still easier for me with a keyboard. … maybe I’ll practice that.
OK. I have the same experiences actually.
One might wish that Apple would have bought into and improved upon the PalmOS scribe input tool.
In the meantime, it is often easier to switch to audio-to-text input for quick notes.
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JJW
You may know this already: separating words is easy, you just swipe a line between the letters that you want to split. You can remove spaces the same way.
I have. I think I just need to practice with Scribble more before giving up on it.