Oy.. I’m exhausted.. a long , busy.. and pretty upbeat week. I’m about 2 months into my new job and starting to get the hang of it. I’m in sponge mode, trying to learn as much as I can about the area I’ve just joined. It’s all new.. the people, the acronyms, the problems.. and I love I’m spending every waking hour trying to cram all this stuff into my head. My normal routine now is to print all the email that I get that’s longer than 1 paragraph. I’m not able to read anything longer than that on a screen for some reason.. So far, I haven’t been able to read it on a kindle either. Right now I need to have old fashioned paper I’m no luddite.. but I think it’s part of my general reading problem.. This presents several problems.. 1st.. I now show up at home with a 2 to 4 inch stack of stuff to read every night .. I generally start after the family goes to bed and am still at it until nearly 1AM.. 2nd.. That leaves me wiht a huge pile of double sided printout that’s hard to reuse.. I feel like an ecoterrorist.. third.. I’m usually way out of synch with online conversations. Most folks have replied twice by the time I’ve had a chance to read an email thread..
What to do ? Has anyone had any luck using an ipad for this ? .. or is there some other trick I should apply to reading my laptop ? A bigger sreen perhaps ?
Sign me treekiller in jonesville
-nite all, nite sam
-me
Try the talking feature so you can listen to the text.
Use your iPad for the ‘lounge around and read work stuff’ use case at home. Lotus Traveler on your iPad is a decent email/calendar interface, and the new Lotus connections iOS client will help as well. Think of all the time you’ll save not fussing with printing out stuff. Poke me if you need a pointer to our internal tool for cloud based syncing stuff between laptop and mobile devices. Be careful you aren’t pushing sensitive work stuff into non secure cloud syncing solutions like iCloud or Dropbox
I struggle with paper stacks as well, for exactly the same reason. Have tried different things with varying levels of success. I have an iPad which has been great. As I read more on it, I think I’m getting more used to it. The Kindle reader app has a sepia setting which I find easier on the eyes than black & white. You could e-mail documents to yourself and read it on that. Still… I like to see the whole document or book all at once and be able to quickly flip to whatever part I want. Though Kindle has improved a bit, it’s still somewhat difficult to navigate. Some books have tables of contents, and others don’t. Nothing is as good as a printed paper book yet, unfortunately. I also have one computer hooked to a big flat-screen TV. Being a visual learner, I like the giant display & big pictures. It’s an adjustment to take-in everything all at once, though, so it has its pros & cons. Overall, I’m trying to save more e-mails and documents to files and read them without printing them out, but it’s still a struggle for me. Signed: fellow treekiller & paper stacker. 🙂