Thoughts for the Day

What’s on my iPad - Notes/Drawing

Part 5 - Notes/Drawing 

First, let me start with briefly with Navigation. I use Navigon on my iPhone and also put it on my iPad. If you really need to see a map, you can’t beat the huge iPad screen showing your turn-by-turn directions.

Notes/Drawing

Notes/Drawing - not drawing in an artistic sense, but as in charting or brainstorming. I certainly am not an artist!

• Noteshelf - LIke a notepad, but better. Choose a paper (lined, graph, music staffs, shopping list, to-do list, journal, day planner, sketch book and more). Choose a writing or drawing instrument (color, size, style) and then write or draw. I use it mostly for quick lists - faster to write than type, or for quick sketches. Have wire-framed many a webpage with this app. Export to Dropbox, Evernote, iPhoto, Email, etc. I’m sure I’m missing a lot. Great app.
• Penultimate - Very much like Noteshelf, except better for writing. Why? It has a wrist protection area that allows me to write naturally without leaving marks all over the page. You have to purchase a lot of the papers that are standard in Noteshelf, so Noteshelf overall is better and more versatile. But if you really like handwriting notes - Penultimate is a good addition. BTW, I’ve not bought a writing instrument for the iPad. Would like to try one first and see how I like it. If you use one - please comment and let me know what you think.
• OmniGraffle - if you wireframe, sketch out marketing materials, design layouts, etc. this is the app for you. But if you do the above, you already know this because you use OmniGraffle on your Mac (you better). Like this app for coffee shop meetings.

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