So this week I have got to the point in my love affair with my iPAD where I need to take it to the next level in the relationship! Great as it has been so far I want to see if it can truly take the place of a real business tool…….the notepad!

Let me tell you this, getting me to part company with my blue lab book style notepad and trusty bic biro is a lot harder than it sounds, but looking at some of the apps now on the app store I think it could be finally feasible. A paper notebook is great but it also lacks a lot of things that I would love. Cut, paste, the ability to use more colour, undo/redo and the ability add images and edit the pages as I go along, not to mention indexing and searching. There’s a lot technology could add but it has to do one thing which is to do the basics and well and paper and pen is a very very hard act to follow!

So next weeks great experiment will therefore be to asses if the iPAD can indeed replace my notepad.

How am I going to do this?

Well firstly you need a pen and I’ve already got 2 capacitive pens that will work with the iPAD in the post. Secondly you need a good app and I’ll be looking at a few that I think could just fit the bill ranging from basic to quite complex products.

I’ll let you how things go next week!

UPDATE:

We’re putting this little research project on hold for the time being.  Success with the ca[active pen has not been great to date and we’re waiting for our own hme made C-Pen to be right before we carry on with this.  Still loving the iPad though!! 

Dave
rugged and mobile