Geoff's Random Thoughts

Back in August, I posted about my experience with the ipad after a Month. http://geoffsrandomthoughts.blogspot.com/2010/08/ipad-week-in.html But I realised that I'd never followed up, so here's a longer term view. Do I use it much? I still take the iPad to lots of places, it's light, the battery life is great and with some of the apps, it's really, really useful What's the software keyboard like? Now I'm up to speed, I notice it more than I did previously, I frequently press C or V instead of space and click on shift instead of A.It's usable, but I go far to fast on it. How's safari for browsing? The experience is still very immersive, but I wish that other browsers were available, this would push Apple to improve Safari. Don't you miss Adobe Flash when browsing? No, I really don't. What's Ibooks like? My only reservation has been removed, but I don't use ibooks a lot. Is it heavy, how is it to handle? Occasionally ...

Over the last 6 months, applications like Evernote and Egretlist have become a larger and larger part of my life as I search for my ultimate GTD (Getting Things Done) setup. One of the issues I've had was that while I use a notebook at work, another at home and a phone the rest of the time, the iPhone doesn't have a large enough screen to use for looking at content regularly. When the iPad came out I was sceptical, I still don't like the app store lock in, but getting hands on with a colleague's for 5 minutes allowed me to 'Get' the iPad. Beyond GTD, I wanted to be able to read on the go, I have some dead time which could be used to catch up on articles. 1 week in. The iPad has barely left my side, I take it everywhere I can reasonably be expected to get value out of it. At Work, it's been especially useful for notes and reading. My Macbook Pro has been a little neglected although it still has tasks I can't do on the iPad and is the centre of...