For those that don’t have a tablet the key to their value (outside of their coolness) is that when you find apps that work well for you the devices become lifechanging.
Since I purchased the ipad(1) several things have changed in my business and house. We no longer buy printed books, with all my family using the kindle ebook reader on idevices. Not only is it cheaper but we no longer have volumes of paper stored around our house. There are a lot more great benefits but this is about my favourite app not the device.
In day to day business life I use several great apps, generally inexpensive (not that I mind paying for something good), but the app I use every single day is Notetaker HD.
I have tried a bunch of different note apps, and apps that handle hand writing, but for me Notetaker HD beats them all hands down.
I prefer using a stylus and writing to typing on the ipad keyboard. I even used a bluetooth keyboard integrated in to a cover which was awesome. But for simple speed and flexibility writing and drawing with a stylus can’t be beaten in my opinion (you can use your finger too).
Notetaker HD was written by Dan Bricklin who invented VisiCalc and obviously thinks through the issues in building good software.
Some of the great features that make it a standout for me:
- No more dragging your wrist on the screen with the Zoom mode (prev. Edit 2)
- Using zoomed writing means you can fit plenty to a screen – it matches a normal page size of printed paper
- Background images (great for filling in forms)
- Import screen shots and draw all over them
- Heaps of shapes etc for doing workflow charts and all sorts of great notes.
- Easy exporting etc
There is more and if you watch the videos that explain how it works you can easily see why it is a cracking good app.
I have tried a few different stylii but have settled on the pogo stylus at present.
Well that’s what ireckon anyway
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