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Posted by MadaboutDana
Jul 4, 2011 at 02:48 PM
Yes, you’re right. I generally read Google Reader stuff on my PC, but on the iPad I regularly use:
—-BBC News (excellent!)
—-Feedly (also excellent)
—-Fluent News Reader (not bad, but not particularly great either)
—-ProPublica (interesting, above all as a reflection of the stances of ethically motivated US journalists)
—-Zite Personalized Magazine (almost as good as Feedly)
Notes Plus does seem to have quite a following - it’s certainly a beautifully designed app. I realise my attitude to the search function appears inconsistent, but that’s a function of the app. If you’ve got something (like Notes Plus, for instance) which invites you to load it up with notes/drawings/recordings etc. by offering folders, multiple different kinds of note etc., I think the search issue becomes significant, because the app is inviting you to use it as a serious info repository. If (as in the case of Essay) the app has no such pretensions, but simply serves as a useful platform for getting stuff written and out (e.g. for editing to another app/platform), I don’t regard search as such an important ‘missing’ feature. What about OmniOutliner, I hear you say? Quite right - there’s an app which certainly does claim to be a serious info repository, but doesn’t offer search. Which is why I’m hassling the developer so much! Because I love the ideas behind OmniOutliner - for jotting down ideas very quickly, and yet with considerable flexibility, it’s hard to beat. And unlike so many iOS note takers, it supports rich text as well. Actually, while I’m thinking about it, I’ll just go and fire off another e-mail…
Cheers,
Bill
Posted by Dr Andus
Jul 4, 2011 at 02:53 PM
Tom S. wrote:
>MadaboutDana wrote:
>>iAnnotate PDF (for annotating PDF files:
>>ReaddleDocs
>and GoodReader do this, too, but iAnnotate has multiple tabs, so you can
>>read/edit
>multiple PDFs simultaneously. The range of annotation options is truly
>>awesome,
>too)
>
>I strongly recommend this application as well. Probably what I do most on my
>iPad besides browse and read email is read and annotate journal articles as pdf’s. My
>iPad wouldn’t be anywhere near as useful without it.
The multi-tasking feature of iAnnotate does sound superior, but I would still like to put a word in for PDF Expert from Readdle (http://readdle.com/products/pdf_expert_ipad/). Pretty much the only reason I bought my iPad for was to be able to annotate PDFs away from my PC and desk. I started with GoodReader because it was the cheapest. It’s not bad at all, however I wanted to be able to highlight not only the selected lines of text but any other part, therefore I bought PDF Expert, which had a freestyle highlight feature. PDF Expert is my preferred tool for annotation, though I still use GoodReader for some features that PDF Expert doesn’t have, such as the ability to strip out all notes and email them as text.
Posted by MadaboutDana
Jul 4, 2011 at 04:13 PM
Anything by Readdle tends to be well-conceived, to be honest.
Another app I forgot to mention is Save2PDF, which gives you a built-in PDF printer so you can save anything on your iPad as a PDF file. It’s also got quite powerful file management/transfer capabilities, and allows you to make notes, too.
And my recent discovery WikiNodes, which is much more fun to use than any of the other Wikipedia browsers!
Posted by Ken
Jul 4, 2011 at 08:32 PM
Bill,
No worries on the delayed response. I was out of town on vacation for a few days with my wife, so tech time was limited, as it should be (excepting my beloved Nikon D300 and lenses). I greatly appreciate all of your recommendations, and may indeed be purchasing a few of the apps. I was able to take advantage of the July 4 sale of a few apps that I wanted (Pocket Informant HD and Snapseed), so I am feeling a bit less pressure about buying an additional app or two. I am planning to read over your list in the next day or two, and will let you know what I end up purchasing.
Thanks again,
—Ken
Posted by Ken
Jul 6, 2011 at 03:47 PM
Notebooks for iPad has certainly caught my attention, and I am now reading their manual. I am not certain how easy it will be to use in a cross-platform environment as a task manager, but I am giving it some consideration. And, I am also again considering GQueues as it seems to offer off-line use on mobile devices.
—Ken