This morning I read an article that mentioned an app that has a function Ive been seeking: a handy note taker that can be accessed easily from a variety of pcs and/or devices. It mentioned one called Neato, which does not sound like such a great name, but it had a pretty good review. On a bit of a different tangent, we recently purchased a tablet for our new business venture. If youve been around here at all, or read any of a number of my posts in the past couple years, you know already that kT and I have started a music production company ( Barrel Door ) to conduct events here at the winery. While researching various pieces of equipment well need, the apps on tablets kept surfacing as something wed want to have around. But wed need a tablet for that, so its one of the early purchases we made, as much as anything, I needed to bring myself up to speed on mobile devices (still pretty phone illiterate, but thats next!). The apps we have looked at have ranged from cash register to sound control for the stage, to camera control for live streaming. There are of course many more, but those were some of the main ones we were interested in. So of course, we are finding many other handy little apps out there, and for most of them it doesnt cost anything to try em out. Like the Neato one I started this post with. So I go to the app store and it pops up real easy with a quick search; so downloading we go. But it doesnt look anything like the screen shots from the article. In fact, I cant make heads or tails of how to use the thing, so I find a help page that leads me to a video that makes it fairly clear, fairly quickly, that this app is for controlling stage lights. Well keep that one onboard, just in case! Meanwhile, I go back and find the other Neato I was looking for, and it wasnt quite as neato as I had hoped. But it did lead me to yet another app called Evernote, which seems to do all I was hoping and do it fairly efficiently to boot. One of the main features that shot Neato down was the tiny little onscreen keyboard. Tiny was one thing, but no microphone feature was the deal killer. I really like being able to dictate a quick note, and then to be able to access that note from any device; now *thats* neato!
Posted on: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 19:51:31 +0000
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