There's also an unfortunate "bleeding across the page" effect when you return to notebook view: The canvas gets split up across the two "pages" of the notebook, which can make drawings look very strange. (You'd think there would be an option to draw on a single page in portrait, as there is in both ( Macworld rated 3 out of 5 mice ) and , but there isn't.)

If you experiment with Paper, you'll probably wonder whether you need a stylus. I personally preferred using one instead of my finger, though I found that I had a difficult time using most non-nib styluses (Adonit's Jot Pro, Ten One's Pogo Sketch Pro). One exception was the Nomad Compose; the slanted brush worked best for me when sketching or using the watercolor brush.

Brushes and pretty books are nice, but the Paper feature that really caught my eye was Rewind, which uses a metaphor for an undo gesture: By placing two fingers on the screen and turning to the left or right, you can undo/redo up to 20 lines.

This gesture doesn't always work, unfortunately, because "close page and return to the notebook" is mapped as a two-finger gesture--a pinch. I finally found a way to do it by putting one finger down at a time, but it's a pain and ruins what's otherwise a fantastic bit of gesture innovation.