Thing 5's Notetaking Not Earthshaking

After picking Bamboo Paper and Springpad from the choices and downloading to my iPad, here's a quick review.

display cabinet idea

Bamboo Paper was a very easy app to download and get started in. It has very intuitive functions. The ability to create multiple books and pages is great. All the ideas and sketches can go in one place. The free app can be expanded by purchasing items in the app.

 As shown in the picture to the right, with only a few days practice, the sketch is very preschoolsque but adequate to help with the display cabinet. Bamboo could work better if a stylus was used. This is a great way to show a colleague a quick sketch (color, too!) without wasting paper. It also is good to use on the days that the onscreen keyboard is giving you fits.

Springpad has some great features. It took a little bit of effort to get it to work but once it was installed the Web Clipper made saving webpages a snap. It was pretty easy to do on multiple devices, too. I was able to set it up on my iPad's Safari and a laptop's FireFox browser letting me save from both platforms.

This app could be very helpful in a work setting. If a group project or large event is scheduled this could let multiple people work on one or multiple projects without duplicating work or missing an item.

The variety of items Springpad makes available is excellent. For a group project you can have Notes, Bookmarks, Tasks, Files, and Checklists. It is really simple to change the order of items in a checklist on my iPad. Just drag the three lines up or down to move the item.

Update: Springpad will be shutting down in June 2014.