Using Freeform On a Mac: A Quick Course

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macmost.com/e-3063 Freeform is a useful app that allows you to create visual documents that aren't notes or word processing files. Learn how to add text, shapes, connection lines and more to build anything you like.
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00:00 Intro
00:38 Creating a New Board
01:40 Adding Text
02:54 Adding Shapes
05:29 Boards Have No Limits
06:16 Working With Boards
06:47 Connection Lines
09:08 Working With Multiple Objects
09:20 Use Edit, Select All or Command+A to select everything.
09:55 Alignment and Distribution
10:22 More Types Of Objects
12:03 More Shapes and Custom Shapes
12:49 Exporting and Sharing
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@exlibris3765 7 месяцев назад

The layers, distributions, shape editing, duplication are for me as a corel power user very simple. I might even say that they are exactly the same. Useful and easy tool.

@richardsnation4609 7 месяцев назад

Transforming from IBM/PC to Mac/Apple. I am so glad that I found you. You have been so informative on the YT videos that I have just recently come across. Getting my Mac Air this weekend and I’m so glad that I can get so much knowledge from your videos. Thank you Gary. 👍🏽

@AlwaysBolttheBird 3 месяца назад

You must be as old as me to call it an IBM PC haha. Usually the young ones just say windows

@loisskiathitis8926 7 месяцев назад

A very useful and informative video tutorial today! Thank you, Gary!👏❤️

@KasSommers 7 месяцев назад

Thanks for this. I've seen Freeform sitting in my apps for a while, but had no idea what it was.

@victrolux 7 месяцев назад

thanks … a particularly wonderful lesson! Will be supporting you soon.

@Slave-Of-Christ 7 месяцев назад

Great content as usual. Audio sounds great! Good work!

@chillydoog 7 месяцев назад

Thanks again for another extreemly helpful video

@AnilAtluriWord 7 месяцев назад

Good tutorial Gary. Thanks.

@DeadNinjaSyndrome Месяц назад

I always learn something new from your videos. Thank you. I am a Linux/Windows user who switched to Mac recently.

@stephenbridges2791 7 месяцев назад

Cool. Apple never ceases to amaze me with their innovative ideas. It's a shame I didn't have this back when I worked. I would have used it, probably daily. I've been trying to find excuses to use it.

@artprojectsnz 7 месяцев назад

Great simple Ap that has a lot of uses…and can look as good as you are able to make it! Cheers Gary

@bobcat6653 7 месяцев назад

Very useful, thanks!

@JohnBarrow1961 7 месяцев назад

I found it very useful, Thanks, Gary.

@DeeptiMail-xv9bp 2 месяца назад

Thanks a lot. Useful video.

@EricKinkead 7 месяцев назад

Good video. I followed along while watching it on my iPad Pro..

@seattlebeard 7 месяцев назад

Delighted to hear you explain yet another mysterious icon in my dock. Don't know if I'll ever need it, but thank you. :o)

@HenryCalderonJr 7 месяцев назад

Thank you I never knew what this was for…. I am new to the Mac environment. I ourchased a Reburbished mar air 13 2019 with 16/512gb capacity for 537.00 with a 1 year warranty and I am learning and very impressed even though it is intel based. thank you again your videos are very helpful and did add Sonoma and it works great!

@garywagner2466 7 месяцев назад

Interesting. I wondered what that app did. Now I know. Thanks for posting.

@helenparis3275 3 месяца назад

probably the best tutorial I have ever seen

@fridgebanana 7 месяцев назад

Gary's content is so good

@kimcramer 6 месяцев назад

Hi Gary! Love your videos... this was great as I am using freeform more and more. Looking for a keyboard shortcut to create a text box. Is there anyway to quickly add text to a board I am working via Mac shortcut? I'm loving it for brainstorming but I want to quickly add new thoughts as separate text boxes that I can individually move around the board. I know I can tap the text box at the top but was hoping for a quicker shortcut

@nicolemartinezsanchez8921 3 месяца назад

Thank u🎉

@humunbeing 5 месяцев назад

great sir

@lorensims4846 7 месяцев назад

Interesting! I've had this app for a while now but didn't know what to use it for. Having started on the Mac in the very early 90s with PageMaker, FreeHand, and Photoshop, this looked like little more than a digital scrapbooking app. I'm still not sure it's not that. I use Pages to do most of the stuff you demonstrated. Actually, I usually use Pages mostly for making signs. I'll tuck this one in with my iWork apps, sort of like Libre Draw in Libre Office.

@clasqm 7 месяцев назад

I guess it's an app for people who create org charts.

@TechWorldTut 7 месяцев назад

Interesting

@darkhorse1985 6 месяцев назад

Wow! How annoying Apple haven't made it easier!!! ...Thanks for the good video

@Hedgehog-ji1bm 7 месяцев назад

Very good video. Freeform is still very young. Visio on PC is a better tool - but as a Mac user, I am happy we finally have something similar on the Mac platform.

@johnhunter4181 Месяц назад

Omnigraffle is the Mac's answer to Visio.

@lizcreaser7020 6 месяцев назад

Great video thanks. Im struggling to print my boards. Id like to make posters by printing several pages and sticking them together but can't seem to find a way to do it. Any ideas?

@macmost 6 месяцев назад

File, Print.

@wiwingmargahayu6831 7 месяцев назад

yeah old macbook would be amazing for me Sir

@dsbennett 7 месяцев назад

Introducing Gary, the Talking User Manual. 👍

@pat8988 7 месяцев назад

Looks like Powerpoint Lite! If you're familiar with Powerpoint, then this will be familiar.

@nicfarrow 7 месяцев назад

More … It seems to do almost everything the same as Keynote, minus the animations.

@RameshKumar-ng3nf 7 месяцев назад

I love freeform. Its free in apple ecosystem . But one major downside, the application is still not stable . While working in freeform for long time, i experienced its very buggy and keeps hanging up during works. I have M2 mac mini, M1 ipad pro , still hanging up. I tried uninstalling the app and reinstalled again. Still the same. Got frustrated and finally moved to Nebo paid app which a infinite canvas and its works super smooth without lags.

@Pawel-rv1ek 7 месяцев назад

Yes it made my lose my note with no option to recover. Totally unacceptable.

@thomaskarl6197 7 месяцев назад

When sharing, do all others have to have a Mac or Apple device with FreeForm?

@macmost 7 месяцев назад

Depends on the type of sharing. If you share a PDF, then anyone can open the PDF. But if you want them to be able to open it in Freeform or collaborate then they need Freeform.

@jackdelane Месяц назад

If im using an ipad how do i get it to draw perfect curves? The curve tool seems to actual be for connections and snaps so much its hard to place where you want it.

@macmost Месяц назад

Use the Shape tool, select Basic, and then use the curve tool at the top.

@leozay55 7 месяцев назад

How to set the border to 11x8.5" letter size page? Thank you. It's a very nice compact presentation!

@sundaynightdrunk 7 месяцев назад

You would do that when you print the file. File > Print, set Paper Size to US Letter, and set Scale to Fit, or set Scale Zoom to something appropriate for your board.

@macmost 7 месяцев назад

Pick a pixel-per-inch amount. Could be anything, like maybe 100. (Or maybe 300 or 1000). So then create box that is 1100 wide and 850 tall. Put that behind everything else and maybe Lock it. Then draw on top of that to keep things in your 11x8.5-sized box.

@leozay55 7 месяцев назад

Thank you very much for the reply! I've found only two (indirect), related to the subject, settings: 1. Arrange - Constrain Proportions 2. You can see W and H point numbers wile stretching the box corner. Is there the way to preset desired pixel-per-inch and proportion numbers?@@macmost

@yeahdope 4 месяца назад

Is there a way to evenly distribute a bunch of selected images you've imported without them overlapping? Whenever I drop a group of images they automatically are added to the board diagonally and already overlapping so when using auto-align it just makes them overlap again

@macmost 4 месяца назад

Just make sure the leftmost one and the rightmost one are spaced far enough apart so there is enough room to distribute them.

@yeahdope 4 месяца назад

@@macmost ah! Amazing, thank you so much for the response! You’ve just saved me a load of time

@CanonPaulHamilton 7 месяцев назад

Are there any decent templates for news sheets?

@macmost 7 месяцев назад

There are no templates.

@chaosxz9139 4 месяца назад

Hi, want to ask how to reduce Freeform PDF size in iPad ? Understand Mac have the option, but could not find that at iPad.

@macmost 4 месяца назад

The best way would be to figure out why the size is large (maybe large images) and work from there (reduce the image size in an image editor before importing).

@chaosxz9139 4 месяца назад

@@macmost thanks, second question, is it possible to save Freeform in PDF with few pages, rather than in one page PDF?

@macmost 4 месяца назад

@@chaosxz9139 Yes. Print and then click the PDF button. Then scale as you like to have it save over many pages. But Freeform really isn't meant for PDF creation like this. Pages is the app you want to use.

@TLaslam 7 месяцев назад

We can do same with word.

@lawrenceatkinson 7 месяцев назад

❤🎉

@WilliamDague 6 месяцев назад

I have yet to find any info on how to create a curve between various points using freeform on my Mac

@macmost 6 месяцев назад

Many ways. For instance, select two objects then choose Insert, Connection Line.

@HJ-su7px 7 месяцев назад

HI there I watch your videos every time useful but sadly in Korea no one use iWork or notes etc.. is USA using iwork etc ... in company for office work?

@macmost 7 месяцев назад

Sometimes. In a lot of companies you can use what you personally want. You don't need to use the same apps as others.

@HJ-su7px 7 месяцев назад

@@macmost indeed, but i dream there is a using iwork for office and cominictate with facetime and memorize with reminder. so.., i wonder that kind of company is exist in USA

@macmost 7 месяцев назад

@@HJ-su7px Yes, there are definitely companies in the USA that use all Apple products and work in Pages, Numbers, Keynote, FaceTime, etc.

@HJ-su7px 7 месяцев назад

@@macmost Thanks That's a information for me

@AkhileshYadav-qj8hq 7 месяцев назад

Hi gary,how to clear swap memory usage without restarting

@macmost 7 месяцев назад

A little off-topic for this video. In short though, you don't. There's no need to manually try to mess with your memory usage. Unless there is a problem, don't worry about it. If there is a problem, quit some apps or close some browser tabs you aren't using at the moment.

@AkhileshYadav-qj8hq 7 месяцев назад

@@macmost I’m sorry for the interruption.now i have swap used for around 245mb and it is decreased to 89mb. Should i leave it or should I restart my mac

@macmost 7 месяцев назад

@@AkhileshYadav-qj8hq Those numbers aren't what you should be looking at. Look at Memory Pressure instead. See ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-WTyoSv_hpgg.html

@AkhileshYadav-qj8hq 7 месяцев назад

@@macmost ya but should i leave it or should I restart my mac everytime it uses swap

@SherKhan0122 7 месяцев назад

I don’t see anything fundamentally new in this app. Maybe the infinite canvas. Is there any functionality that isn’t already in Pages? I guess the shape-shifting thing is new as well as the pen drawing tool.

@macmost 7 месяцев назад

Ease of use and design? I mean there's nothing new in the Calculator app when compared to Numbers or Excel, but I wouldn't want to open those up to just add a few numbers. Sometimes it is about having a set of tools presented in a convenient way.

@ziabo 5 месяцев назад

great! Can anyone tell me how to move canvas on a Mac without Magic Mouse or Trackpad? I have external Logitech mouse and keyboard. Thank you!

@macmost 5 месяцев назад

How do you usually scroll vertically and horizontally with the mouse you do have? Use that same technique.

@ziabo 5 месяцев назад

@@macmost thanks. Usually there is dedicated tool in the app, like Hand in photoshop. Press H + mouse button and move the hand. There is no Hand tool in freeform

@bento3425 7 месяцев назад

hi, can u show me a tutor how to insert ms word document on pages ?

@macmost 7 месяцев назад

Insert? Not sure what you mean by that. Like a Word doc inside a Pages doc? Or do you just want to convert? If so, just open it in Pages.

@bento3425 7 месяцев назад

@@macmost so, everytime i try to insert a document into Pages, all i get is the thumbnail of the document. any solutions ?

@macmost 7 месяцев назад

@@bento3425 Not sure what you are trying to do, exactly, but how about opening the Word document, copy the part you want, then paste into the Page document.

@bento3425 7 месяцев назад

yeah, but the document I'm trying to insert has this barcode that I can't copy, and I need to include that barcode for authenticity purposes 😢 @@macmost

@justendeavor Месяц назад

Why cant i use mywacom tablet to draw on my macbook pro?

@macmost Месяц назад

In Freeform? There's no drawing function on the Mac version.

@justendeavor Месяц назад

@@macmost Even on macos15 there is no drawing version? Wich app for notes with wacom you recommend for macbook?

@macmost Месяц назад

@@justendeavor Sorry, I don't have a Wacom tablet so I'm not the right person to ask.

@peeyushsharma8408 7 месяцев назад

All I want it do is import tables from Numbers, or even better, connect a editable Numbers file to a Freeform board.

@macmost 7 месяцев назад

That would be useful. But first there needs to be a way to connect tables across Numbers documents themselves. That's something missing from Numbers right now.

@peeyushsharma8408 7 месяцев назад

@@macmosttrue, this would be so powerful.

@PandorasCrate0 7 месяцев назад

How is this not Scapple?

@deadbydead 7 месяцев назад

For some reason freeform have serious sync problems with latest updates ... The apple cloud system sometimes is unusable

@macmost 7 месяцев назад

I'd contact Apple Support about that. That isn't a problem others are experiencing so it could be an issue with your iCloud account.

@deadbydead 7 месяцев назад

@@macmost hi think this is an issue with advanced data protection

@macmost 7 месяцев назад

@@deadbydead Ask support and see.

@phillipebrall9930 7 месяцев назад

It is a very powerful app with no purpose. Apple has created this to please their higher level creatives, but marketing has failed to even try to sell itv to us. I like using it, but I am yet to find a purpose to do so.

@macmost 7 месяцев назад

Like all apps, it isn't for everyone.

@artysanmobile 7 месяцев назад

Freeform has a long way to go before it actually serves the need it suggested when released. It retains the ‘toy’ UI that is so maddening about Apple software where, rather than having the freedom to draw what I want, I must go to new menus to choose from lists of goofy options that are just a distraction from the job at hand. As a constant user of Pages, I was really excited by the name “Freeform” thinking it would be fast and, well, free. I thought it was going to be a timesaving gift to the relatively advanced user. Far from it, it is just another time-wasting toy. So disappointed.

@blakelyhall8191 7 месяцев назад

Please excuse my ignorance I am an apple newbie, but may I ask what was the need that was suggested at time of release?

@MaiElizabeth 7 месяцев назад

The very fact that it's infinite is what bothers me the most. Without limitation of space, I can’t focus.

@bobp3738 7 месяцев назад

Agree completely. I thought it was going to be like Visio and got pretty excited, but no.

@leozay55 7 месяцев назад

I'm, actually, very happy with Freeform. It's perfect for Scrapbooking, I think!😃

@eyediom3694 7 месяцев назад

I’m finding using NUMBERS by removing or moving a default table far more useful. Particularly to access the same file on macs or iPads with older operating systems that aren’t supported