Another reminder why I love tablets
A topic on the GBM forum (http://tinyurl.com/2w67nl) reminded me of a sad thing I saw in Starbucks a couple of weeks ago. A guy was working in Excel on his ThinkPad laptop while also flipping through handwritten notes in a paper notebook and a stack of annotated printouts of spreadsheets. Ugh.
I would have shown him the light, but I was device-less that day, and he seemed quite busy moving from laptop to notebook to stack.
Regardless, seeing that cumbersome load of paper made me more appreciative of my single item setup. My tablet may have a 14" widescreen and weigh five pounds, but it's a lot easier to carry than a laptop, a paper notebook, and a stack of loose pages.
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Amen! With my "second job" of being on our village council I get stacks of financial info, meeting minutes, and agendas. My colleagues print them all out, three hole punch them and put them in binders. I get them emailed as .pdf's I sit in meetings with only my tablet, and take notes on the files using pdf annotator, then I take personal notes with One Note and those are printed to pdf and it all goes in a folder marked for that meeting. Tablet=Freedom
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James A. Morman, at 2/19/2008 10:47:00 PM
I use PDF Annotator on occasion, but I find it really works the processor. Unless I need to keep the file in PDF format, I usually reprint to Journal.
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Sumocat, at 2/20/2008 08:59:00 AM
Ah, tell me about it. My fluids professor took some time to get used to not seeing a physical textbook infront of me while I was blurting out figures and tables. Whew... my backpack is so empty these days... Which reminds me, I need to blog about my convergence.
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archiwiz, at 2/20/2008 05:36:00 PM
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