Writing apps for mobiles
| Sun, Jan 22 2012 12:04pm GMT 1 |
Eli d’Elbée
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Hi,
After years of loyal service, my old Motorola MicroTAC died
recently and I replaced it with one of these new fandangled smart
phone (android). Discovered to my utter delight (and my wife's
horror) that I could used the 'memo' app to write on my daily
commute. 40 minutes each way for writing - devine!
'Memo' is not a great tool for the task though and I was
wondering what other apps people might be using for their magnum
opus? Any suggestions?
Eli
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| Sun, Jan 22 2012 01:59pm GMT 2 |
Barb
270 Posts
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Is it difficult with the keys, or do you get into a groove with
them? How does it impact your battery's power? I catch two buses
each way, so my ears pricked up at your post!
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| Sun, Jan 22 2012 10:52pm GMT 3 |
Eli d’Elbée
167 Posts
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I am nervous that RSI will set in with the thumbs, but I
can't stop myself. I have a Galaxy W so it's all screen and the
phone often mis-interprets what I want to type, but it does the
job. Now I'm simply looking for a decent bit of app for the
task. Frankly, I'm not sure one can really write a novel on
one of these little things, but you can certainly bang out
segments/ideas and paste them together later. At present I
type off 1500 characters in 'memo' and email it to hotmail. Then
start up another 1500 characters. Not really ideal.
There is an app called "My writing spot" (
http://www.mywritingspot.com/android ) which you need to buy -
I was wondering if anyone has had experience with this?
Otherwise there aren't many alternative (market opportunity for
someone!!!).
On a side note - I've also found that I can't write
comments on the cloud from the android - does anyone know
anything about this sort of stuff? Is there an app for the
cloud?
Going ape for apps,
Eli
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| Sun, Jan 22 2012 11:46pm GMT 4 |
Tony
2114 Posts
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I've just got a new Nokia Lumia 800 smart phone, which is the first
(I think) to use the Windows 7 phone OS. It works fine on the Cloud
and, being Microsoft, it has Microsoft Office Mobile with a
cut-down version of Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Files can be
uploaded to skydrive to be accessed by home PC. (Sorry, not much
help for Android users.)
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