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I use to do list very lightly and Google Task Manager is good enough for me. But it wont likely serve for y'all.
I bought a Nook HD+ yesterday after my original kindle fire gave up the ghost on a drive - we need it for last ditch Elmo distracting on the return drive.
It is a pretty darn good tablet. I would say it compares favorably with the original iPad in size and power,and what it lacks in camera it makes up for in removable storage. The default home screen is a little bit reading focused for those like me that do not plan to use it for that, but it isn't nearly as bad in that way as the Kindle Fire interface - it isn't that different from the standard Android launcher, in that you can use widgets and stuff by default. I did decide to install Nova launcher just to fit more icons on the screen, but it would have been fine with the normal home. And the inclusion of Google play means I had the option of replacing the launcher and keyboard easily!
So basically I paid $160 for a 9 inch android tablet that is pretty speedy, runs Android 4.0, has quite a nice screen, and has upgradeable storage so I can put lots of movies on it. I am fully satisfied.
I was doing really peacefully well with my current status of tablets, and...it was good.
And then I saw a review of the 10.1 Note, and all stability was lost, and peace in the land became a distant memory,
But, no! I am going to be a responsible adult and not replace something (or things) that are doing pretty damned well.
But! Pressure sensitive stylus input! That is as close to a Cintiq as I'm going to get! God, that's hot...
I love the stylus on my Note 2 but there isn't the app support one might hope for yet. Though the Lecture Notes app is very awesome for some uses and ezPDFreader is a decent PDF annotator. I am still hoping for OneNote pen support one of these days.
Of course I don't draw. There are definitely some options out there for those who do.
There are definitely some options out there for those who do.
That's what is making my mouth water. Multiple windows active and visible--also kinda sexy,
Toodledo has some GTD aspects and is pretty customizable. I *think* it has recurring tasks. Pretty sure. I like that you can star tasks and then only show the starred list, because I get distracted/overwhelmed by long lists. You can also set priority, status (waiting for), and some other things.
Okay, I have the Gmail tabs now.
I don't hate them but I'm having trouble getting my previous filters to play nicely. I think the culprit is that everything in the tabs is counted as Inbox, so anything I've configured to "Label X and Skip Inbox" will not get sorted into them.
Yeah the multiple active windows is cool - I briefly put the 10.1 ROM on my phone to play with it (it scales down really tiny obviously but is a cool experiment). I have found that I use the multiwindow feature on my phone very rarely but think it would work better on a larger screen.
smonster,
I could not get over how ugly toodledo is. I keep trying it every year or two, but that is a serious barrier for me.
So I had a youtube channel, and I tried accessing it, but it refused to unless I used my real name or a name I was willing to use on all my google accounts, on which I call bullshit. Maybe I'm too tired for this, but i aquiesced and now I can't seem to find any of the vids I uploaded.
Some guys helped me make a great quicktime video. And then gave it to me uncompressed. And both are out of town. How do I compress it from over 300 meg to a reasonable size? I'm not sure Quicktime even allows uploading videos that size, and google gives me conflicting info on how big a file is allowed in youtube. At any rate is 324 meg reasonable for a 4 minute video. If not how do I compress it on Windows 7.