


A big part of every law school’s first-year curriculum is teaching students how to synthesize vast quantities of research materials into carefully-organized outlines. When I think about my writing, I think in outlines, which is a remnant of my days as a law student. So, let’s dig into the details to see what it can do. The app is easy to use and impressively feature-rich for a new release. For them, and for anyone who has felt constrained by more linear, text-based ways of exploring ideas, Freeform is a perfect solution.Īt first blush, Freeform’s spare interface may give the impression that it’s a bare-bones 1.0 release, but that’s not the case. Instead, Freeform is targeted at a broader audience, many of whom have probably never even considered using this sort of app.

Freeform isn’t going to replace apps that are deeply focused on a narrow segment of apps in the blank canvas category. It’s an ambitious entry into a crowded category of apps that take overlapping approaches, emphasizing everything from note-taking to collaborative design to whiteboarding.Īs is so often the case with Apple’s system apps, Freeform falls squarely in the middle of the landscape of existing apps. Freeform is a brand new iPhone, iPad, and Mac app from Apple that lets users create multimedia boards on an infinite canvas that include text, images, drawings, links, files, and more.
