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Depends what kind of documents you want to write, and what you want to do with them afterwards. You may be able to get away with something like Evernote, which works on literally everything, and I have it on everything that vaguely does computing no matter what, so regardless of what I have with me, I can bang in a note, and it'll be available on my phone, work machine, laptop, nexus 7 etc. It's just there. I'd recommend you get Evernote anyway, regardless of whether you get an iPad or not.If you need to be able to read/write Word documents, your choices are limited. QuickOffice Pro (£14, iPad only) comes recommended although I haven't used it. They are part of google now, so it works with Google Drive as well as Dropbox etc
Speaking of which, as a way of transferring files around, dropbox is hard to beat. Much better than faffing with emails. My novels live in Dropbox, and it doesn't care if I'm working at home or in Waterstones coffee shop.
(I use Scrivener for my writing, which doesn't yet exist as an iPad version, although they've been "working on it" for ages. So I still lug the laptop* [Macbook Air ;)] around with me and just use evernote on the iPad)
Thank you, Tim! Piles of help!I have tried to work Evernote before and I could *never* get it to sync with my iPod/desktop/chrome. I tried emailing several times and had no reply until the last one where he told me just to re-install it. NO help at all - if I do use that I will need to really work out what went wrong.
I need to be able to view PDF's but not word documents. I'll be transferring whatever I type to my PC and they will stay there!
GoodReader is brilliant for pdfs & general text files, plus you can sync it through any of the cloud services (dropbox, skydrive, Google drive etc). It can do mark-up & annotation, but it's not really a "writing" app though.
I don't generally use my iPad for writing, but when I was doing NaNoWriMo last year and needed to write every spare moment, I used iA Writer during my lunch hour at work. It's recommended by Stephen Fry and is great for fast writing because it doesn't let you easily keep going back to reread what you've written. As you write, it fades out the lines above.When you've finished, it will save to iCloud and what you've done will be available on any device. I also emailed it to myself, just to be sure.
Yes, there's a lot to be said for emailing stuff to yourself - it's often a good form of off-site backup in case your kit gets nicked or damaged, and it'd date & time stamped in case you ever get into a who did what first dispute.
Tim wrote: "GoodReader is brilliant for pdfs & general text files, plus you can sync it through any of the cloud services (dropbox, skydrive, Google drive etc). It can do mark-up & annotation, but it's not rea..."Sounds good for any type of reading I need to do though, thanks! All our readings for class are generally photocopies and given to us via PDF's!
Katie wrote: "I don't generally use my iPad for writing, but when I was doing NaNoWriMo last year and needed to write every spare moment, I used iA Writer during my lunch hour at work. It's recommended by Stephe..."thank you!
If anyone does have an iPad and writes on it (I'm thinking authors here maybe?)- what app do you use?
I'm currently in the process of figuring out a new note system for next year (about 4 days after I go on Summer holiday - desperation). I was playing around with my friends full size iPad the other day with their attached keyboard and it was lovely but they just write their notes in an email and send it to themselves after. That'd work okay but I'd rather use something a little bit more... sophisicated?
I'd go for the baby and I have already done some research into a keyboard for it.
I'm just wondering what you all use.
(I have two reasons for an iPad - the second leading from the first. 1. Loyalty - I've been an apple fan for years. 2. Because of that loyalty I already have a bunch of apps/music/films)