I like OmniOutliner for iPad1 quite a bit. It is a truly unique and powerful outlining tool. But I'm tired of waiting for better document management. Manually uploading and downloading documents to a webdav is no longer sufficient. Having a flat view to many dozens of documents is no longer tenable.2
CarbonFin Outliner CarbonFin Outliner is $5 for iPad and $3 for iPhone. If you have used CarbonFin Outliner in the past, then I may have little of value to offer you in this post.
I typically use my iPad with only a Smart Cover. I'm not a fan of cases for daily use. I initially liked the DODOcase because it protected my iPad but also disguised it. But three different DODOcases fell apart or broke within the first year. Now I use the smart cover and a cheap Case Logic sleeve for my day to day activities.
But when I travel or take my iPad out to a pub or coffee shop, I snap on the Speck SmartShell.
My daughter is enjoying her hand-me-down iPad 1. But there were a couple of things I did to make it a better experience for her and I.
It's Glass Dummy Kids are naturally drawn to the iPad for two reasons.
It is playful by design, with it's vivid animated graphics and shallow learning curve. It is 30% fragile glass. I knew I didn't want her carrying around a sheet of glass so I bought a protective cover.
Just read this article at Macstories because it's better than I could probably write. The only thing I have to add, is to check out Nebulous Notes. Whatever a writer's taste, we have great options to work with. It's a good time to be a plain text kind of person.
Nebulous Notes The custom toolbar is my favorite feature of Nebulous Notes. For example, custom keys to jump words or select current word or quickly tab and untab.
For all of those that are looking for something to do with that new iPad retina display and the LTE bandwidth:
JPL Images
Microscopy Images
Wellcome Image Winners
The Blue Marble 2012
Have fun
If you have not read Part 3a, that's ok. However, I assume you have some knowledge of the apps in this discussion. If you want to go read part a, go ahead.
Ok? Welcome back.
The Apps The apps I return to time and again are:
OmniGraffle Noteshelf sling Note With these three apps, I can do pretty much anything I need. It's not a perfect trifecta of productivity, but it will do.
The browser is only a part of being able to do effective research on my iPad. If I need to keep a pad of paper and a pen with me at all times, then my convenient all-in-one Internet device becomes a futuristic TrapperKeeper.1
I intended to do an overview of several apps, but a sketching app is too personal to be objective. After 3000 words of explaining and reviewing, I decided the post had grown too large.
In my house, we have a hand-me-down technology economy. For most things, I get the shiny new device or feature1 iPhones, iPads, OS X versions, etc.2 My wife gets the old tried and true version.
This weekend my wife gets an iPad 2 and my daughter gets her very own iPad 1. Before each passing I take a serious amount of time preparing the device. I don’t reset the device. I take the time to make sure it does what everyone expects.
Not much I can offer you here today. There's some good sources for live coverage though:
MacStories Macworld TUAW
Double tapping on the Messages selector will provide an option to mark all DM's as read.
Double tapping on the Timeline selector will jump to the top of the timeline.
Double tapping the Profile selector will open a web view to Favstar for the current account.
