: Re: Is the iPad a convenient medium for writing work? Does anyone here write on an iPad at all? The iPad 2G is due this summer and I have waited since March 2010 already, so I am planning to

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I did a blog post on this last year:
Can You Get Real Writing Work Done on an iPad?

My answer was yes, by the way.

An edited excerpt (considerably more at the link):

For casual writing (emails, mainly),
the iPad’s on-screen keyboard is
sufficient. When I had to work on a
chapter of the latest book, I turned
to one app and an Apple Wireless
Keyboard.

...

The app I used for writing was
Dataviz’s Documents to Go Premium,
which creates and edits Microsoft
Office documents (Word, Excel,
PowerPoint). The great thing about the
Premium version (and justifies the
extra over the basic version) is
that it connects with the Dropbox
online storage service, which
automatically syncs any document
between your different devices. So I
wrote the chapter in Documents to Go,
saved it in the iPad and also to
Dropbox (you need an Internet
connection, of course), and the
chapter was immediately replicated on
the Mac at home. When I got home, I
opened the document in Word from the
Dropbox folder on my Mac Pro, did some
touchups, and sent it off to my
editor.

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