# Initial Impression for the Universal Control

- I've been hoping this would be great for my use case
- Sidecar hasn't been stable for me, and hoping the smaller data size would be beneficial
- Feature wise it's working as advertised!
- Pleasantly surprised that I'm able to unlock my iPad from my Mac keyboard
- I can also control iPad from an unlocked Mac
- I've just started writing more using LaunchBar's snippets, which won't work across universal control
  - Initially I though this is a bit of a drawback and a bad timing on my part
  - But I've noticed that the looking sideways to the iPad while typing facing the Mac is uncomfortable for me anyway
  - If I needed to I can put it in the clipboard and paste it in
- Needs to click to give focus for the keyboard instead of just moving the cursor
  - I'll need to make this a habit for triggering something from the keyboard
    - Spotlight/LaunchBar
    - System Control (Volume Up/Down, Brightness)
- Trying to off load media and Pomodoro notification stuff to the iPad
  - I didn't do this before because I wanted to control it from my Mac
  - [Dark Noise](https://darknoise.app)
  - [Flow](https://flowapp.info)
  - [Overcast](http://overcast.fm)
- Hoping I can off load more stuff to the iPad
  - Things that I don't need the keyboard too much?
- Too much stuff goes though my head when thinking how to best adapt this new use case