Otis
Footballguy
After seeing some of the guys in my office go this way, I decided to take the plunge, and the Mrs. picked me up an iPad Pro (9.7) with the keyboard and Pencil. I'd like for this to replace the following things I do as part of my work and commute routine:
- Rather than printing stacks of large documents to mark up by pen on the train each night and haul back to work in the morning, I'd like to load everything up as Word and PDFs onto my iPad and use Pencil to do my hand markups
- Rather than having bound or 3 ring binder hard copies of my main files for each case, which over the life of a case become my "bible" as I highlights them, mark them up, and include my notes in the margins, I'd like to keep electronic versions of me, so that I have all of these with me for all of my active matters.
- Rather than having a stack of legal pads from the various meetings in conference rooms throughout the day, I'd like to keep handwritten notes all in one place, by matter, using Pencil, and just haul my iPad around with me during the day
- Rather than having a stack of post-it notes all over my desk taken during phone calls over the course of the day, I'd like to replace that with handwritten notes all kept on the iPad.
- For business travel, for short/certain trips, travel with this instead of a computer.
- For depositions, instead of bringing a binder or stack of physical marked up exhibits with the documents I'm going to use in the depo, bring them all as PDFs and use just an iPad in the deposition. [One of the reasons I was reluctant to ever try this is that I usually end up using the flight out to prepare for a deposition and like to physically mark up the documents on a plane; this new keyboard and Pencil capability hopefully will allow me to do that electronically
The two things I'm struggling with are figuring out the best solutions for (1) file management [we know Apple in their annoying Apple way decided we don't need files or file explorers], and (2) markups of PDFs using Pencil [I've already figured out that MS Word on the iPad lets me do markups right on the document using Pencil and e-mail those out, pretty cool].
Anyone have Apps/solutions they like best for this sort of thing? Best I've come up with in the last 24 hours after trying (only very briefly) a number of solutions is using the Box app to store all of my files in folders; this should allow me to install Box on my work and home PCs and load up any new files into the appropriate folders from there; using an app called Cabinet which allows me to access my Box files but also seems to have the best Pencil markup/highlighting capability for PDFs; and then using Penultimate or OneNote for note taking. Seems like this can work, but any other, better ideas?
Also anyone have any other useful business tips for these devices? If this can work the way I am envisioning, it really could be a game changer for the way I work.
- Rather than printing stacks of large documents to mark up by pen on the train each night and haul back to work in the morning, I'd like to load everything up as Word and PDFs onto my iPad and use Pencil to do my hand markups
- Rather than having bound or 3 ring binder hard copies of my main files for each case, which over the life of a case become my "bible" as I highlights them, mark them up, and include my notes in the margins, I'd like to keep electronic versions of me, so that I have all of these with me for all of my active matters.
- Rather than having a stack of legal pads from the various meetings in conference rooms throughout the day, I'd like to keep handwritten notes all in one place, by matter, using Pencil, and just haul my iPad around with me during the day
- Rather than having a stack of post-it notes all over my desk taken during phone calls over the course of the day, I'd like to replace that with handwritten notes all kept on the iPad.
- For business travel, for short/certain trips, travel with this instead of a computer.
- For depositions, instead of bringing a binder or stack of physical marked up exhibits with the documents I'm going to use in the depo, bring them all as PDFs and use just an iPad in the deposition. [One of the reasons I was reluctant to ever try this is that I usually end up using the flight out to prepare for a deposition and like to physically mark up the documents on a plane; this new keyboard and Pencil capability hopefully will allow me to do that electronically
The two things I'm struggling with are figuring out the best solutions for (1) file management [we know Apple in their annoying Apple way decided we don't need files or file explorers], and (2) markups of PDFs using Pencil [I've already figured out that MS Word on the iPad lets me do markups right on the document using Pencil and e-mail those out, pretty cool].
Anyone have Apps/solutions they like best for this sort of thing? Best I've come up with in the last 24 hours after trying (only very briefly) a number of solutions is using the Box app to store all of my files in folders; this should allow me to install Box on my work and home PCs and load up any new files into the appropriate folders from there; using an app called Cabinet which allows me to access my Box files but also seems to have the best Pencil markup/highlighting capability for PDFs; and then using Penultimate or OneNote for note taking. Seems like this can work, but any other, better ideas?
Also anyone have any other useful business tips for these devices? If this can work the way I am envisioning, it really could be a game changer for the way I work.
