Life Without a Netbook: A Work Week With Just my iPad

Believe it or not, I carried both a netbook and an iPad the first two weekdays after buying my iPad. By day 2 (Tuesday), it seemed clear that I could get a lot done with my iPad alone and ditched the netbook. Here’s what I’ve found after a full work week (5 days) of carrying just the iPad with no netbook to fall back on.

My most used iPad apps for work are:

– Safari (web browsing)
– Mail
– Pages (long form note taking)
– Adobe Ideas (mobile white board)
– Evernote (medium form note taking & organization)
– BugMe! (extremely short notes)




There are also a couple of apps that I use infrequently but should be noted:
– WolframAlpha (searches with a math/science/measurement bent)
– Dragon Diction (great speech to text demo)
– TweetDeck (Twitter client)
– SketchBook Pro (because I like doodling 🙂



There are, of course, functions I simply can’t...

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