iPad Workflow - File Management, Writing Code, Git, and... Microsoft Office?

[@ChrisLawley]

Here is a link to a playlist with all five parts. kzbin.info/aero/PLpkBDtm4-uJxff9Q0S86RQLQP0MzEW72U

[@mitchmitch555]

I think using an iPad for programming like this is okay, for a slightly more mobile approach than carrying a laptop around. But I'd want to warn students and new programmers: don't get an iPad as your primary device. You need to learn how to write code on Mac, Windows, or Linux, or you'll be counting yourself out of consideration for most job opportunities. I'm sure this guy has prior programming experience with more traditional hardware, but has learned how to integrate an iPad into his job specifically. I'm not saying it's impossible, I'm just saying don't hold yourself back from the start just because you can technically write code on an iPad and iPads are cool.

[@severgun]

Mobile? With 2 keyboards and touchpad? Looks like self-hypnosys

[@CarlosBenjamin]

I learned to code on a terminal..... The iPad is light years beyond those. Back then a big upgrade was going from a green screen to amber. Those were nice.

[@harrytsang1501]

I learned to code in vim. My iPad is the best mobile ssh client as long as I didn’t need to handle UI that day

[@fallinginthed33p]

@@CarlosBenjamin Who remembers punch cards?

[@CarlosBenjamin]

raboox9 I remember them but never had to use them. I used to work in a building in downtown Phoenix called ‘the punch card building’ because of its tall narrow windows scattered seemingly randomly on the white, concrete side (it was also curved).

[@SlaydrXD]

People: “You can’t do REAL work on an iPad.” Chris: “Hold my coffee.”

[@NickCarterPoops]

Disagree. You can do "REAL" work on any iPad. you might have to be a bit creative and find work-arounds and such. But you can do any work that you want. I use my iPad Pro as a front-end terminal to my Linux LAMP Stack Server. With the Jump Desktop that Chris suggested, you can even remote manage Macs and Wintels. What "REAL" work are you talking about. Give example plz.

[@davidmcclellan4621]

@@NickCarterPoops Swoosh....

[@StephenC555]

Of course, you can do anything you want, but how efficient it is? I can imagine how painful it is to do coding with iPad, like, you don't have a decent coding software like VCode, and the code don't even run properly in the iPad, that means you only write the code, but can't test it out immediately.

[@SlaydrXD]

@Nick Carter I believe you misread my comment. I support the idea that you CAN do real work from an iPad. @Stephen C it’s not always about the efficiency, but the joy of working from your preferred device. And efficiency comes over time. I’m a professional photographer and web designer. I built my workflow on a Mac, and switching to an iPad exclusively was definitely a process and a learning curve, but it forced me to be even more creative (which was great for my field of work) and now I’m just as efficient if not more than I was on my Mac.

[@StephenC555]

@@SlaydrXD Maybe someone does enjoy using iPad for these purposes. But I find it kind of funny when someone said be "more creative", such that an iPad can do anything. It means: Yes, iPad does not fit for that purpose, but I push it hard, very hard... so that it finally does fit.

[@iamodmk]

I’m enjoying watching the series. I came across the channel as I’ve been searching for productivity videos on using the 2020 iPad Pro (which I have) and intend to use to create for a business I want to create. Although it isn’t IT this series is really helpful with seeing alternatives to the iOS standard in regards to productivity. Thanks and can’t wait to continue watching!

[@torspedia]

Didn't know about adding an iCloud favourite folder to Files. Created my system, and did just that with the top folder, while watching this video! :-)

[@ayebee4703]

Excellent video! Absolutely love this series!

[@ChrisLawley]

Thank you!!

[@mikronesia2]

Your background music works well with the cadence of your voice.

[@michaelgreen9640]

Your vlogs are always educational... look forward to part 3

[@lukystreik]

Great stuff. I‘m also an admin and creative worker and want to figure out the best way for daily workflows. Now the new ipad m1 with new possibilities is out, so I‘m rethinking the idea to work only with an ipad. I subscribed your channel. 👍

[@CraigBergonzoni]

I'm loving this series. Thanks for all the insight!

[@florianroper1250]

Christopher, very nice talk on the iPads capabilities. I'm thinking about switching from other widespread systems after 30 years to iPad as my main "computer" as my requirements changed a lot towards mobility and essentially editing and storing photos on cloud and various hard drives. Could you briefly comment on the drive size and why you use the 1TB version and for whom you think it's necessary? Thanks a lot in advance!

[@alsaikali5753]

This series is great! Very helpful. I use my iPad for work, too. Not sure if pet 2 was as helpful given the different nature of my job but it would be great to see an in depth analysis of the MS products on iPad. I was surprised there was no discussion of OneDrive, for example, as a comparison to DropBox and iCloud, sine many companies use that service and the UI actually seems better than the iCloud UI. Looking forward to the next episode on productivity.

[@JeffHeinenCFI]

This is great! You’ve inspired me to ditch Dropbox and just use iCloud. I had been paying for 2TB on each service. I still need to use OneDrive for work, but that does make it easy to keep work stuff separate from my personal stuff.

[@jaredwolf9638]

Another solid video. I really enjoy this series! Thanks

[@Artemixez]

Love this!!!!! I work in graphics and I want to interstate this into my workflow

[@Nachtfrost682]

Great series, thank you for the insights how you work with an iPad!

[@arjunkomath1]

I’m curious why you chose an iPad over a normal laptop, is it because you travel a lot? I personally find it difficult to spend a lot of time on a small screen.

[@stupacmoto]

Great series Christopher! Thanks for your content 👍

[@harleym6555]

Thank you

[@dudaoutloud]

You showed writing code, but how do you TEST/RUN the code via the ipad? Are you doing this via a VM and JumpDesktop? A web-based service (such as Coder)? Something else? Thank you for the video series!

[@sofiasidanez995]

Nice and informative video but,As a student for software engineering i love coding and working on proyects on mac os, why would u want to do all ur work o an ipad anyway? Whats the advantage here?

[@veritas.ve.42]

Good series. 👍🏻

[@ChrisLawley]

Thank you!!!

[@joshwiliams5415]

file explorer pro - get it

[@thomasvanroose9517]

Excel for iPad doesn’t work with sheets that have linking and pda’s and macros :/

[@keegansard6718]

Any easy way to move files from Dropbox and GDrive to iCloud?

[@Davidwags]

Anyone know what the desktop keyboard in the thumbnail is called?

[@SyedAllIn]

Your iPad is 11" or 12.9" ?

[@kvazimode2]

so.. how do you launch code?

[@ChrisLawley]

The code I write is mostly scripting like Powershell. I don’t run them on my iPad, they get ran on servers.

[@divytolia704]

My experience with jump desktop was awful on the iPad Pro and the Mac

[@ChrisLawley]

Maybe give it another shot, it works really well for me, and I use it everyday.

[@divytolia704]

Christopher Lawley will try it out again I am software developer as well so i had planed to use it for accessing my environments on the mac from the iPad

[@debadri]

Watch on 1.5x. Thank me later.

[@anthonyazanon6160]

Sounds like you need an external drive...

[@ChrisLawley]

I have a couple actually.

[@arfadsyed4114]

You are really complicating your work by using a iPad. Only true benefit is that you can milk the iPad videos in KZbin

[@ryanwu1238]

I feel like this a very underrated KZbin channel. This channel should get more attention.

[@PowerMechGuyTechMasterEarl]

This is so cool! I'm deeply embedded in the android ecosystem, but I like to check up on my iPad counterparts since I just love mobile computing. This series is exactly what I've been looking for! I wanted to see people pushing the mobile tech to meet their needs in all sorts of interesting ways. You do exactly that and more. And your automation creation skills are the stuff of legend. I look forward to the rest of this series. And if you do decide to make another one, or even go more in depth in the categories you previously described, I'll definitely be there. Thank you for pushing the envelope. Thank you for being thorough. And thank you for being you. God bless you.

[@JM-mv7sv]

I can’t recommend a Raspberry Pi 4 as best accessory for iPad enough. Not only can you power the device from the USB-C port of the iPad Pro. But they are small enough to keep out of the way in the house and have local backups, file storage, and desktop class needs. You can VNC into it from the iPad or even SSH into them with “Shelly” if you like console commands. If your company has O365, setup a private channel in Teams and link O365 in there as a webpage. You can tap this and have full access to the desktop class versions of Word, Excel, Outlook, and well everything MS Office. 👍

[@JacksonWelch]

Love these videos, however no disrespect, but all the things you do on an iPad seem much easier to do on an actual laptop lol.

[@ZaffProductions]

I think what he's trying to show is that the iPad Pro is a fantastic substitute for a laptop. But you are right, it's easier to do stuff using a fully-fledged OS.

[@flip__]

@Sarvesh the only thing he seems to be compromising on is having file and folder offsite backups with his home server

[@magicbyrob]

@@flip__ which I think is a valid compromise for a much more portable system with a much longer battery life (in comparison to my PC laptop). And one with touch input that is actually good (in comparison to most touch screen laptops on the market from what I’ve seen).

[@RJ-stills]

I know for a fact that as a Student,Note taking has never felt so good! iPad is wroth the money if you buy an Apple Pencil as well as some Note Taking apps!

[@user-sf9gs2pg1b]

@@RJ-stills Yeah. GoodNotes is honestly a godsend for me

[@ChrisLawley]

Are you able to use your iPad at work? If not, what’s holding you back?

[@nazarshortcuts]

Christopher Lawley i don’t know about working, but for school and task management it is just perfect 👌By the way, please, can you tell me, is changing icloud on iphone possible and is this a hard process?

[@ayebee4703]

I use my iPad for work and personal use. This is bar far my favorite device I own and I love that I can be so productive and organized with a device I love and not one I’m forced to use!

[@dookie6734]

I would be so scared to push anything before running it locally and confirming all of my changes. Do you have a way to verify things on the iPad? Honestly for front end apps the two things I'm missing the most are a terminal app for npm/webpack and a desktop browser's dev tool. The inspect Browser and play.js apps get close, but so far I can't see myself using those for anything but following tutorials or messing around with toy projects. Then finally, one other nice to have would be if the iPad extended to external monitors, instead of just mirroring displays.

[@WestFirstBooks]

I am using my ipad pro for most of what I do at work... I still have my windows 10 gaming PC for many of my tasks and connected to my ultrawide monitor and gaming monitor... Would love to be able to print via USB (maybe soon)

[@ayebee4703]

West First Books once the iPad has display support that does more than mirroring I will for sure get me an ultra wide monitor and do a real desk setup

[@Anonymous-vh9tc]

You CAN code on a iPad but WHY? Why limit yourself with such an inferior platform for coding? Everything you did to be able to ‘code’ on the iPad just seem extremely clumsy.

[@CarlosBenjamin]

The fiddly bits were his shortcuts to automate stuff. Feel free to push things out and otherwise administer your repositories manually.

[@huestom]

If it works for him, why is it extremely clumsy? Also iPad is 10 times more comfortable than a laptop.

[@willhelliwell]

I love coding on my iPad. I still have to use Windows to actually run and test the code but I edit it all on the iPad.

[@vDungeon]

Not agree with this approach to work. That is all. I am kidding. I have arguments. You spend about 1500 dollars for ipad and 500 dollars for the keyboard, you can buy mac pro 13 for this money and stop struggling.

[@ajaypavan9302]

Me with no iPad watching the file management in iPad

[@gastypm]

You have improved your video quality by A LOT. Congrats! I really like your content

[@ChrisLawley]

Thank you!! That’s something I’ve been working a lot on over the summer.

[@curtisgmchale]

The look my wife gave me when you mad that Excel joke. She may ban KZbin videos when she’s around now...thanks.

[@pstodgel]

The one thing you mentioned that I would like to know more about is setting up your Home File Server! Thanks, great series!

[@diverstrelok]

Very nice series indeed, I enjoyed watching it when it first released, and now, when I am trying to come up with the list of apps in preparation to new 2024 iPad released versions, so I can make a switch to iPad only setup. I would love to see a sequel on the same topic, but like Season 2023, where you can share what changed or what is new in the apps you are using now...

[@jbli19]

I would recommend using Gitpod. Basically a web-based VS Code. Works like a charm.

[@g43s]

why an ipad tho?

[@kadesh88]

Hi Christopher, quick question- I’m curious if there is a way to use “find on page” on “view source” for a webpage via iPad Pro?

[@Nerotunes]

If you need an easy website system, you should try Kirby, a file based cms. I love it.

[@lisovyy]

That's a lot of efforts you've put into making these series, good job! Though I trully like the way people like you experiment with their workflows and try to replace their daily work routines with something more elegant, it doesn't make sense for me as a developer how the device like iPad Pro can be thought as a true repacement for coding device. Being a digitally ascetic myself I've spent a lot of my time figuring out a lightweight approach for doing my code tasks, but in the end it just feels that the iPad OS was not meant to be developer friendly from the gorund up. IMO maybe some bare bones simple code editing (looking at it strictly from the plaint text editing perspective) can fit here, but not the real dev stuff (debugging, refactroing, dev environment, docker etc.). Nevertheless, I like your work, cheers ;)

[@JonAndoniBaranda]

Really like this video, would like to see more about programming and IT on the iPad. There is not a lot of videos out there talking about it.

[@Anonymous-vh9tc]

Just don’t, if you want to be treated seriously.

[@Ssolid974]

Siyu Liu U Da Real MVP !!!!!!

[@ryanhebert5033]

Jon Andoni Baranda man, I’m with you! I’m loving my iPad but I’d love to transition to using it more for my job.

[@couch9416]

There isn't a lot of videos on it because you can't run programs on the iPad. UInless I am missing something but if you want to write code on the go (seriously) you shouldn't use an iPad. There is a reason why he didn't show him opening those HTML files.

[@willhelliwell]

Has anyone found an alternative to Word on the iPad? My company used .odt files and I can’t find anything to open them. I can’t persuade them to get a 365 subscription for just me either

[@shubhpatni2123]

A lot of KZbinrs making a video about can Ipad replace your main machine. Here's the best one I found

[@A--_--M]

No it cannot

[@derekkelly485]

Chris. I have small team for my business so I can’t use iCloud Drive. I currently use Dropbox, but it doesn’t support the files app. Any suggestions on a cloud storage app that works with the files app?

[@conlomerate4841]

How can you use an iPad as a Network Admin? Your job's core is the world of Windows. Can you please explain, I would love to do the same if it is possible with iPad? So you are not using Windows at work at all?

[@kcguitar9307]

Can you run code right in texastic?

[@varzear]

The question is the price, because with the money you need to buy an Ipad Pro, you can easily buy a MacBook Pro.

[@thaivunguyen8728]

Ipad should always be the addition for laptop/ pc. I cant really think of any professions that will get a tablet as the first tool.

[@stevemcclure2879]

My first video from your channel and it was great! Small suggestion, I found the background music nice, but it was a little distracting from your awesome content.

[@ericoschmitt]

Except if you are on Teams call and you split screen or go to another app your camera turns off. And many other issues like that. I've been on ipad only for 2y now and looking for a proper computer.

[@kahuna3901]

OneDrive is a good files option for iOS. Specially as it is so highly integrated into office. And if you are also a windows pc user, or an android/iOS user, OneDrive is really well supported in those platforms.

[@jeelkodinaria1390]

Why I love his videos? Cus he's videos r so realistic and faded 🖤

[@howar31]

Tried to code on my iPad and failed. iPad is ok for light coding. But when you need serious coding the a macbook will be so much better.

[@StudySessionYT]

Awesome video! New subscriber here, looking forward to more videos!

[@cesargonzalez4935]

I'm very curious about your workflow on github from the Ipad. Can you make a video, please? 😁

[@ArifHidayat]

how do you make your ipad has a windows UI UX?

[@sosumee]

awesome, I just got my Magic Keyboard and I love it!

[@peteherrera1502]

You are better off setting up your own person icloud drive in your own personal network at home.

[@cederajunior4054]

Me whose basically using an iPad for Netflix watching these kinda videos

[@HamishLeahyDev]

Hey I love your videos and i work from a tab s8 and i code and i love working from it everyday!

[@TomWagstaff]

Great video, I’m really enjoying this series as I’m trying to move more from my pc to my iPad. Thank you for the coding part, I was never sure of the code editors on iPad, definitely going to check out Textastic and Working Copy!

[@eclipticpath]

Cool! But why though? Seems like a lot of workarounds and ”forcing to make it work”. Why not just use macbook? I own both iPad and Macbook and can’t see myself using ipad for anything productive other than Apple Pencil stuff, since everything is easier on macbook.

[@almenarab]

Hello Christopher! Please tell me you the Stand brand and model. Thank you!!

[@arsen8195]

Still using my Dropbox and iCloud Drive and yes, I don’t like Dropbox for iPad also. I have to move evething from Dropbox to iCloud.

[@ChrisLawley]

Uh, I figured Tony Stark would have his own solution. 😉

[@ruffneck718]

Your channel is great. I do Dev as well on my pad just to edit etc.

[@NickSiekierski]

File management is still crappy on iPad. I don't understand why you can't have things both "on my iPad" and backed up to the cloud. I suppose you can download things from iCloud, but then iCloud decides when you don't need it on your device anymore? What if you want to make a backup of your "on my iPad" folder to an external drive or a Mac, I don't think you can short of individually exporting all of the files. For all the advancements in hardware and software, iPad still feels like an iCloud terminal to me instead of a true standalone device. I don't feel that my files are as secure, permanent and retrievable on an iPad as they are on my Macbook.

[@sidsss2036]

Can we run angular in visual studio code or any other IDE on ipad pro?

[@mela_pela]

Could you do a video explaining deeper how you use Textastic?

[@Mavinceyou]

Hello Mr. Lawley. I have send You a Twitter Message. From the User Itechnerdone. Thank You.

[@doater]

Yes Jump desktop is perfect for remotely connecting to your work pc

[@2Evan]

Really enjoying this series - sorry late to the party as usual. Smart IT guy (that can’t spell) working with our fav hardware ever (well 2010), that beaut iPad Pro. And wow, mention of RSS, the best way for busy people to aggregate their interests - and the yep, we”re now subscribing to this channel that way. No time a-wasting on that Bird and FB.

[@_arorarohit_]

I am a fan now. Thanks for introducing to me to working copy. I wish there was something to run docker as well. It would have been amazing. Also is there a way to connect to multiple VPN together ther?

[@xaviermays8004]

LOVE the videos, my Mac book pros collecting dust even whe I had first iPad, iPad pr 12.9 M1 love it, one day ill get the terabytes wow you’re a true professional I’ve been learning so much from youre’ videos THANK YOU!!

[@funhaos]

I have an iPad Pro w/ the Magic Keyboard. And i really love it. But i would never use this for coding unless it received a proper coding environment. You are doing simple things like updating static site templates which i guess this works for that... but it means you are pushing your code everytime you want to preview it on the browser. How are you testing before pushing? How are you running the code locally? If my company found out i was pushing code directly to our servers without testing locally they would probably fire me. Software companies like mine have an entire process for QA, and devops. How do you compile your code? How do you utilize CLIs for a framework like Vue, or React.js using an iPad?

[@matheusfraga6146]

I use OneDrive and it works just fine with file explorer months iPhone. I guess it should be ok for iPad as well. + YES. WHY CANT YOU SHARE A FREAKING FOLDER ON iCloud?? WTF?!

[@Rockem1234]

iCloud is terribly slow comparing to Dropbox. I'm using it for Lightroom catalogs sync, and what takes iCloud about 15 minutes to complete, Dropbox does in seconds

[@tabish344]

Where is inspect element view for chrome browser on iPad?

[@denncardoso]

Hello! Nice content. I am data engineer that works with python and data pipelines. I work with MacBook Pro 13 inch, but I want an iPad Pro for my own productivity (mainly to develop data projects). What do you think about that? Again, nice content and congratulations! Take care!

[@conlomerate4841]

How do you test your code? Do you need to push the change everytime you make a small change in the code? In Windows you can just open the browser one monitor, code in the other, CTRL+S save and refresh the browser. How do you do this in ipad?

[@kevinhafur3261]

If Excel on the iPad would only support pivot tables :-(

[@PudWud1]

This is the only thing I’m missing. I use an iPad as my main work device, but i just need pivot tables and I’d be set.

[@MrZdrojek]

what is the name /brand/model number of the keyboard ?

[@IncrementalNova]

Chris, great to see fellow IT guys and youtuber producing such good content. Really like Writing code apps. Still looking to find a way to actually compile the code on ipad (java basically)

[@cguerra]

Why don’t you use google drive? It works well across all my Apple products and I integrate it into the files apps. I only mention this because I have access to google drive from anywhere from any device.

[@buttonmasher2277]

Same situation as you - was looking into replacing Dropbox with iCloud, but you can’t stream videos with iCloud. That’s pretty much a showstopper for me.

[@95chanz]

microsoft office apps on ipad is so poorly optimised. I’m using the ipad pro 2018 and the text selection in Word is so bad. And the document always reload when i switch back from another app. I hate this so much because I can’t migrate wholly to Pages yet but using Word on ipad is so suffering.

[@localixdots9698]

ахахаха что за бред - не ужели у него нет денег купить нормальный ноутбук?!

[@amartinezperez]

I use my iPad Pro every day. It allows me to do a big part of my daily work. But there is one big issue I have with it: terribly slow file transfer rates!!! I use a ssd disk that performs really well on macos. Unfortunately, on iPadOS it's almost impossible to copy large files (several GBs) from the iPad to the ssd. Do you have slow transfer rates too?

[@naterod4515]

Are you still using textastic or has it changed? JW, I will be switching over to an iPad only workflow and textastic seems promising.

[@postnatalmotcoach1006]

This is so interesting ! Thanks . I want to learn this .. where do i start ( I laughed at the excel joke by the way ) what external drive are you using for the iPad ?

[@SergioRamirez-ri4ri]

But most IT companies don't let you BYOD (bring your own device) for security reasons.but I like what he is doing with a iPad for IT.

[@scottdware]

I recently got an iPad Pro and really dig your channel. You've helped me out with a lot of cool additions and modifications. How the heck did I not know about Working Copy!! OMG this is such an amazing app. Thank you for all you do!

[@salimchain]

Hello, is there any postgresql and mysql clients that you recommend for iPad?. Thanks, Great videos!