A PDF you marked up on the iPad and sent back now drags straight into Terminal too, as a file path, not just into Finder and Mail. I kept wanting it on the command line and it wasn't there. Quitting the Companion now tells the iPad, so the iPad says the Mac left instead of waiting on a connection that isn't coming back. Pairs with Pen Friend: Handwriting Notes 1.3.1 for iPad, which adds Your week, to-dos sent to Reminders from the reading sidebar, and a reading sidebar that looks more like your page.

The island got calmer in this one. It keeps one shape whatever it's showing, the page you're writing on your iPad glides in, and a worklog's briefing opens on your Mac as a sheet of paper, so you can read it next to whatever you're working on. A marked-up PDF that comes back from the iPad now drags out of the notch like any other file, onto the Desktop, into Mail, wherever you need it. Everything you send or receive stays in the history, behind the clock at the top of the island, and screenshots and copied pictures are kept there too. When an iPad asks to connect, the Companion chimes so you don't miss it, and the iPad now asks before joining a Mac it hasn't used before. On a Mac without a notch the island opens below the menu bar so every click lands, errors are one plain line telling you what to do, and a handful of small bugs are gone.

• Drop a PDF or a picture on the notch and it lands on your iPad page. A PDF you mark up comes back to the notch, on your clipboard. • Everything sent either way is kept in the notch, ready to send again. • A file too big to send now says so, with its size, instead of looking like it went. • A picture you dropped once can be dropped again.

The card that appears on the Mac when a worklog arrives now shows the first page as thumbnail.