“The iPad 2 is already becoming a major factor in helping me do my work, in large part due to these five productivity apps,” James Kendrick reports for ZDNet.
“These aren’t the only apps that handle the functions they offer, but they do them well enough to have already become a major part of my iPad usage,” Kendrick reports.
5 useful productivity apps for the iPad 2:
1. iThoughtsHD (US$9.99)
2. Reeder for iPad ($4.99) (Honorable mentions: Flipboard and Zite)
3. Pocket Informant HD ($14.99)
4. Evernote (free, premium service avail.)
5. Dragon Dictation (free)
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
The link is jacked.
Ok it’s good now. Cool.
Agreed on Evernote and Reeder. I’d replace the other three with:
• Pages (Apple)
• Keynote (Apple)
• Air Display (Avatron)
Pages, once you have it on you (iPhone, iPad) and on your Mac life is sooooooooo good.
Well, two out of three ain’t bad. I am in love with how seem less it is to work on a Pages file back and forth on my iPhone and then iPad. The Mac doesn’t play as well. Once that part is seamless, it will be a thing of beauty, but until then it’s too awkward!
I use Numbers for time sheets and job costing on my iPad 2.
GoodReader
OmniFocus
1Password
Grazing Browser… much more elegant handling of Tabs than Safari!
GoodReader – indispensable!
Ironically, the article web page is broken for all three browsers I use on an iPad, Safari, Terra and Dolphin. Page displays fine until half loaded, then some part of the script breaks it completely.
GoodReader is pretty much the MOST IMPORTANT app for the iPad. Then maybe the iWork suite or the Docs to Go suite (either will do) although the Apple ones are much nicer.
I use Things on all devices rather than the Omni stuff.
And I thought there would be some apps here that I did not know about… oh well…
I purchased Documents to Go for the iPhone and iPad before the corresponding versions were released in iWork. I have iWork ’09 installed in my Mac but hardly use it as 99% of documents I receive are in Word or Excel format. So I have no alternative but to install Office for Mac 2011 in my Mac which surprisingly works rather well compared to its Ribbon crippled cousin on Windows. Documents to Go is MS Office compatible which earns it bonus point in my book.
Just set it so that your Word and Excel files open in Pages and Numbers. I have Office for Mac (only because I got it for free) but never use it.
This.
I need to deal with Excel & Word dos all the time, and iWorks works just fine for me.
Agreed. I spend about 80% of the time with my iPad in GoodReader.
GoodReader
Reeder (RSS)
OmniFocus (love those GeoLocation reminders now)
1Password
Garageband
I /still/ want Xcode on the iPad
I still can’t do most of my job without that :/
mSecure
Pages
Numbers
I saw one of our project managers bring an iPad into a meeting and take handwritten notes, as well as voice dictation to capture what was being said. Pretty neat. Can’t remember what it was called though.
As the first poster reported, something is up with that link. I go there and the page loads quickly and looks fine for about a second, then suddenly almost everything (except some graphic elements) disappears and is replaced by HTML code.
As I think about, I realize it may not be the site. I just remembered I did a software update (which include a Safari update) last week and for about a day or two, there were glitches when I came here to MDN. A very similar situation was occurring, only an entire page would go blank after it initially loaded.
Wait a minute. I just noticed all the ads are showing up. My Safari update dumped Click to Flash.
FWIW, Click to Flash did disappear with my Safari update. Safari 5.1 does not support WebKit plugins, so I had to go with another version that is a Safari extension.
Still have the same problem the article link, however.
GoodReader is the must have Swiss army knife of productivity.
What I dream of is a text editor from Bare Bones Software on the iPad. Or maybe a version of Coda.