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Paper fights back + Planetary

Week 3 of Paperlessness with iPad is over. I continue to rely on AwesomeNote as my virtual filing system / scrapbook and to do list. Notes Plus continues as my preferred handwritten note taking tool. I also make some use of email and calendaring.

Citrix on the iPad has turned out to be less useable than I had hoped, mainly because of the incompatibility between the iPad touch UI and the Windows UI which is being controlled. If Apple was to enable Bluetooth mouse support I think this could be a different story.

As the title of this post suggests, paper has been fighting back! I have been handed all sorts of printouts in and from meetings, and by workmates passing work to me. In some cases, this is just the sensible thing to do. Ie when I have taken on work resulting from a meeting where the attendees marked up copies of documents, it just makes sense to take those notes to work from. I think until everyone is working from a compatble paperless device, this will just be the way it is.

I am not signaling surrender or failure by any means! I have greatly reduced my own paper usage and consumption, and am much more aware of the volumes of paper in use around the office, which is a good thing.

The exercise has also forced me to be serious in my dedication to effective use of the iPad as a paper alternative - a habit formed which I hope to perpetuate.

Planetary

Planetary is a fun, artistic, intuitive, visually appealing and free app, which acts as a visual interface to your iTunes library. The best way to understand it is to try it out.

Until next time - fight the paperless fight!