Saturday, May 31, 2014

Mobile Thing 6 - Creating & Editing Docs

Both CloudOn and Quickoffice sounded great.  I choose to try Quickoffice basically because I use Google so much.  I had it on my phone, but it must have been really old because other than showing all the drive documents for all my accounts (which I have quite a few on my phone) I couldn't do much else so I downloaded the newer one.  I probably won't use it a lot, but it is good to know that it is available.  My google docs (all show up and I can change accounts) seem to end up as a pdf.  Don't think that I would use it to type up documents as I don't like typing on my phone.  And it seems like the only way to get it from my desktop to my phone is send it as an attachment in an email.  I did open a document from an email but the format had changed and some things did not show up at all.  CloudOn may be handier as it seems to store in dropbox.  Will probably try this at a later time.  I don't think that I would ever need SignNow as I have never had a need for this yet.

Thursday, May 29, 2014

Mobile Thing 5 - Notetaking

I'm not one for making lists or writing a lot of notes.  Springpad sounded the most interesting to me, but what a disappointment to find out that they are closing down in a few weeks.  I tried Bamboo Paper.  I opened it up, but there was no toolbar.  So basically I had the one book with many pages.  I was able to change color, erase and clear the page, but that was all.  Since Bamboo Paper didn't seem to work correctly I thought I would try Remember the Milk, but I was not impressed.  Seems like I can only add things for the next week and I since I'm not one to write lists for what I need to do for the day I don't think it would be useful to me.  One of my daughters loves to make lists for what needs to get done for the day so this would probably be good for her.

In conclusion I will stick with Evernote and ColorNote which I have been using and fits my needs.