I liked this bit from The Telegraph’s Rhiannon Williams interview with Jony Ive on the Apple Pencil:

“I always like when you start to use something with a little less reverence. You start to use it a little carelessly, and with a little less thought, because then, I think, you’re using it very naturally. What I’ve enjoyed is when I’m just thinking, holding the Pencil as I would my pen with a sketchpad and I just start drawing,” he enthuses.

“When you start to realise you’re doing that without great intent and you’re just using it for the tool that it is, you realise that you’ve crossed over from demoing it and you’re actually starting to use it. As you cross that line, that’s when it actually feels the most powerful.”

Something I noticed I’ve started doing since having the Pencil: when I was editing my review, I kept playing with the Pencil as a distraction, and I even occasionally used it to highlight words on screen instead of reaching to it with my finger (the iPad Pro was held upright by the Smart Keyboard) – just like I’d normally point to something with a real pencil. It does feel familiar.