iTouch Apps

[Dannyalcatraz]

Anyone know of a good one for word processing?

My Palm Tungsten has a notepad program that has let me enter hundreds of pages of data into it- chapters of a chordbook for an alternative tuning, a few RPG campaigns, hundreds of PCs, etc.- while I'm doing things like waiting in a doctor's office. It does so beautifully...but my Palm is dying.

So I bought an iTouch.

I can't transfer the data wirelessly- they don't speak the same dialect of "Bluetooth"- so I'm going to try and transfer the data from the Palm to my iMac, and from there to my iTouch. But I can't do that until I find my Palm's networking cable. And, of course, there is no guarantee of success.

In the meantime, I'm trying the "Notes" app that came standard on the device and find it a tad unwieldy, though at least part of that is due to the fact that my Palm let me use a stylus, which so far has proven more accurate a tool than my fat finger for moving the cursor around, typing, etc.

Is there anything out there that is better than "Notes"?

 

[Thaumaturge]

Try Evernote. It's free (ad supported, with a bandwidth cap per month), and you can type it all in on your computer and then sync it to your touch over wifi. This also means you have a backup of your notes as long as you have access to a desktop.

Thaumaturge.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I'll look into it! Thank you!

In your experience with it, how is it for data entry on the iTouch itself- as in, far away from your computer?

 

[Thaumaturge]

It's OK. It's as good as anything on a screen of that size, I suppose. I've never really typed anything long form into it. It doesn't have a ton of formating options, which is unfortunate.

Hopefully, it works for what you want to do. Let us know.

Thaumaturge.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

AAAAAAAARGH!

I was waiting for my Mom & Aunt to finish shopping for tonight's fish-fry and had used Notes to enter about 33% of the info needed to run my current 4Ed PC, Magnus Skyhammer, and accidentally "Cut" and "Pasted" the entire document empty- mainly due to my fat fingers.

And Notes has no "Undo" function. Hours of work gone.

Sometimes, the march of technology includes some serious backwards steps.

Yep...seriously looking into that App when I get the chance.

All I want is a couple of tools: the aforementioned "Undo" would be nice, as would a "Tab" and "Caps Lock." Almost everything else would be gravy.

Something that let the freakin' iTouch recognize a stylus would be a godsend. (Yes, I know that's a hardware issue, but I can dream, can't I?)

 

[Alan Shutko]

And Notes has no "Undo" function. Hours of work gone.

It does, but it's not obvious. Shake the Touch and a dialog will come up asking if you want to undo. (And if you have previously undone, it'll ask if you want to undo again or redo.)

All I want is a couple of tools: the aforementioned "Undo" would be nice, as would a "Tab" and "Caps Lock." Almost everything else would be gravy.

I don't know about Tab, but you can enable Caps Lock from Settings->General->Keyboard->Enable Caps Lock. Double-tapping shift will then caps lock.

Something that let the freakin' iTouch recognize a stylus would be a godsend. (Yes, I know that's a hardware issue, but I can dream, can't I?)

Pogo Stylus

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Well that is pretty damn helpful- thanks!

Of course, I wish I had known about that shake thing before I simply deleted the file I thought was useless...

Love how they hid the functionality.

And having to use a completely different kind of stylus is annoying...but I'll get over it.

 

[Plane Sailing]

Many apps will let you use the keyboard in landscape mode, which gives more finger room on the keys. Might help!

 

[Hawkwind]

I use an app called office2 it has a word and a excel type app and it integrates with google docs

 

[Fast Learner]

Yeah, "shake to undo" isn't obvious, but Apple's done a pretty good job of putting it in all of their apps, and many developers do, too.

I use NoteMaster for note taking. It syncs with Google Docs, which I'm more comfortable with than Evernote's "proprietary" servers. That is, it's very unlikely that Google will suddenly start charging for access to Docs, but I don't have teh same confidence in Evernote.

Still, not a perfect app, but definitely good enough for me.