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first off, i'm wanting to use my tablet for business use. i go to a lot of corporate meetings and i want to:
1. take notes
2. have attachments to those notes (documents, pdfs, spreadsheets, pictures, whatever)
3. be able to attach files from the local storage and access both the note AND the attachment even if offline (if i'm somewhere where there is no wifi)
4. organize my notes into folders so that i can sort them by whatever the meeting is abount
ive been trying various note taking apps such as handrite, evernote, catch, springpad, etc but i've yet to find one single app that will do all that i want.
evernote -nice but you have to pay a subscription fee in order to put attachments on your notes...lame.
catch - the best app for attaching local files on my tablet to the note itself. i can attach pdf's, pics, etc so when i my note open about that meeting, i can touch the attachment and it launches in whatever app i want it to launch with. awesome. problem is that the organization stuff sucks.
springpad - LOVE the interface and it makes it easy to organize stuff. they have a chrome extension so i can add notes and things from my browser which is cool. the only problem i have with this app is that it doesnt allow the local file attachment like catch does. you can attach anything, but it then links to the springpad cloud service to pull the message down...not ideal if i'm offline.
handrite - this just does handwritten notes obviously, but the ideal situation would be to take handwritten notes and then send it to my other note taking app of choice.
SO...i'm still kind of feeling this all out, but i'm hoping that you guys can give me a good solution to my problem. as of right now, im torn between springpad and catch. the two big kickers here are offline usage and attachments. i need to access all of my attachments and notes if offline with no hiccups. thoughts?
Look up GoogleDocs. I haven't used it but try it out and see if it helps.
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Look up GoogleDocs. I haven't used it but try it out and see if it helps.
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i have Google Docs and it works for note taking and organization...but it doesnt allow me to attach files to notes. if i create a note and save it, i want to be able to take a pdf or any kind of other file and attach the file to the note. basically i'm wanting to emulate the pen/notepad experience. in the past i've taken a notepad and pen for note taking...and also printed off any documents (price quotes, slides, emails, etc) that i need for reference, and stuck them in my notebook. so i could have all of my various printed docs ready for reference during THAT particular meeting. i want the same thing with an app and i feel like springpad is almost there...just need a little more.
any other ideas?
Yeah. Install evernote.
Its cloud based so you'll need to register. It allows you to attach files from the file system or photos from the camera. Also arrange your notes into folders (I have a meetings folder)
Plus the big plus is that any notes I write are auto synced with evernote on my PC and vice versa so I don't have to do anything to get what I wrote back to my main machine
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...oh, you can also record the audio while notetaking which I find really useful in some meetings
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MrGinger said:
Yeah. Install evernote.
Its cloud based so you'll need to register. It allows you to attach files from the file system or photos from the camera. Also arrange your notes into folders (I have a meetings folder)
Plus the big plus is that any notes I write are auto synced with evernote on my PC and vice versa so I don't have to do anything to get what I wrote back to my main machine
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i have evernote installed and had planned on using it until i found out that they require you to pay a yearly subscription fee to upload attachments. $45 a year i think it is. its not crazy expensive or anything...but i dont really care about having my attachments in the cloud. i just want the ability to attach them from my local device or other service (dropbox for instance). i guess you are paying for the evernote storage capacity, but if it would just like to the local device or dropbox, i wouldnt need to pay.
yes its valuable and yes i would probably use it and swear by it, but i was just HOPING to find another solution that wasnt a subscription based model.
Last thing. If you're going to be going without wifi and want to be able to access an existing note or a pre-prepared empty note with your reference material attached, just open the note on your tablet in advance whilst you have wifi and it'll cache it locally so you can access it even from the moon!
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Sorry, didn't notice that. I swear I've done attachments without paying... haven't needed to sync them tho... email the attachments to yourself and use the power of multi-tasking!
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MrGinger said:
Last thing. If you're going to be going without wifi and want to be able to access an existing note or a pre-prepared empty note with your reference material attached, just open the note on your tablet in advance whilst you have wifi and it'll cache it locally so you can access it even from the moon!
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thanks for the tip...this is basically what I want to do. and btw, i just read on evernote's "premium" stuff that the subscription stuff allows you to upload all types of files...but that means that the free version does allow for some types to be uploaded. didnt know that, so i just uploaded a pdf attachment to a note. works well enough. although i'm not really sure why loading a pdf or picture is okay but not a .docx or .xlsx i could see mp3's and what not, but word docs? really?
worst case scenario, i have to convert all of my word docs to pdfs
No worries. Personally I use dropbox to transfer reference material onto my xoom to a folder on the internal storage in advance of the meetings and don't tend to use the attachments in evernote. Hope you find a good solution
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No worries. Personally I use dropbox to transfer reference material onto my xoom to a folder on the internal storage in advance of the meetings and don't tend to use the attachments in evernote. Hope you find a good solution
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hmmm....okay well....hope you dont mind if i ask you some questions?
you sound like you use your tablet in a similar way for business so i'm curious just as to your general "process".
1. walk into meeting with xoom
2. sit down and open up....Evernote and Dropbox?
3. do you type on the virtual keyboard or the bluetooth keyboard? or do you use Handrite with a stylus?
4. when referencing docs, do you have dedicated folders in dropbox for specific meetings or maybe just organized based on project?
as you can see, i'm really wanting to have everything digital, but i want to get down the process so i'm not fumbling through various apps and what not during the meeting itself. sounds like you have this down pat...so i'm open to your suggestions! thanks again.
I tend to have no more than 2 meetings in a day (they tend to be long!) I have a page on my launcher dedicated to my productivity stuff so...
Email widget,
shortcuts to...
Evernote
QuickOffice HD
FileManager HD
Droid scan pro
Remote Desktop Client
Dropbox
I tend to keep my downloads folder very cleared out and organised so I just leave my meeting stuff in there. Saves me having to move stuff after downloading files from Dropbox or email.
I tend to just open evernote and filemanagerHD (which has a nice shortcut on the left hand side to the downloads folder). The xoom with 3.1 is quick enough for me to just open my reference material as I need it from file manager. I then use the honeycomb task switcher to swap between notes and reference
If I'm working on a project longer term I setup a folder for the reference material to keep it separate.
Another useful feature of filemanagerHD is the ability to bookmark files on your xoom for easy access. I do this alot. Often bookmarking the files ill need just before the meeting or as everyone is coming in.
In terms of note taking I use thumb keyboard 4.0 beta in one handed mode (where the keyboard only takes up one side of the landscape screen) so all the keys are withing fingers reach of my hand without me having to move it much. Love thumb kepyboard !
Hope this helps!
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Oh. I also regularly take photos of whiteboards from my notes in evernote! That syncs without subscription!
Waiting to see what this leather folio case with built in keyboard will be like when released too! Could be useful!
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Thanks man. I really appreciate you taking through time to write all that out for me. I think I finally have a game plan now...thanks again.
Hello guys,
My gf is using the note, and in the office she has found it rather useful for taking notes on the go during a meeting, using the app included from Samsung. She can rapidly take the phone, snap a picture (of the product being presented in the meeting), then either write some annotations with the pen or using swype (the pen is also cool, as she can make arrows or lines to sketch up some ideas). But the problem with the samsung app: It can only save as JPEG. Also, once the note is saved, it cannot be edited anymore (or doesn't look like, at least you can't move around the pictures she snapped...you'd need to create a new note and reimport the picture or something).
Is there any app to save to PDF? We tried Evernote, but it's a pain in the ass (upload, then sync from PC app, print, use pdfcreator). Onenote for android doesn't seem to have any export options. What do you guys think?
Thank you!
There is a Adobe PDF Creator app. Its not free though, but could be a solution?
Hey folks
Firstly, I'm a newbie and not technically minded at all - so please if you can help pretend im your gran and make the advice idiot proof
I've just received my HTC One today... first time with an Android phone. So far it all looks good but after 5/6 years of trying to fix my problem, I'm ready to smash the phone against a wall... searched online for answers without any proper solution.
I have an iMac which stores all my music, pics, vids etc... of which I have MANY!
iTunes stores all my media except iPhoto which looks after all my pictures, which are nicely organised in separate event folders.
I want to be able to choose which of my 10billion iTunes songs to put onto my HTC One so I can play on the Music app wherever I am. Easy I would have thought - appears not. No idea how to transfer my itunes songs to the phone. I can't seem to mount the phone following instructions i find online, the USB settings I'm seeing mention nothing about mounting!
As for my pictures on iPhoto... again can't find an easy way of choosing which of my events I want to sync with the phone... the HTC sync manager seems to want to import and reorganise 28 years worth of my pictures into it's own date format which is just a mess. I want to work with iPhoto not this HTC sync manager
PLEASE can someone help me. Please please please..;..
I recommend you use & read this.
http://support.google.com/android/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1649773
Yeah it's really a pain working with MTP on Mac since it's sort of a microsoft protocol. I myself also hate this. Damn google.
Shouldn't have bought a s**ty computer.
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I've been using iSyncr on various Androids for years - it's simply awesome. It syncs your iTunes library via Wifi from your Mac to your Android. Purchase iSyncr in the Play Store and download the free Mac app. You have complete control over which playlists it syncs.
Photos is a different story. I haven't had much luck there with 2-way sync (I'm sure there are 3rd party solutions). To sync pics I take on my phone with iPhoto automatically, I use a combination of Dropbox and a very simple Applescript that automatically imports new pictures placed in my Dropbox "Camera Upload" folder. Works great.
Just to add to the above, I moved my on-device photo sync to box.com today because I had a 50GB free account there. I downloaded an app called FolderSync ($2.95 in the play store) which will automatically sync files (including photos) to Box.com as well as other cloud-based services such as Google Drive, Sugarsync, etc. Just gives you more options for cloud storage that is then synched back to your Mac.
I added a new Automator script to import the Photos in box.com into iPhoto and it worked immediately.
Foldersync has two-way sync (back to your Phone). It's probably possible to write a script to copy your most recently imported photos to your cloud storage, but that's a little more involved than I need. This is of course only for the case where you add photos from say a Digital Camera and you want them automatically synched to your phone.
james_d_84 said:
Hey folks
Firstly, I'm a newbie and not technically minded at all - so please if you can help pretend im your gran and make the advice idiot proof
I've just received my HTC One today... first time with an Android phone. So far it all looks good but after 5/6 years of trying to fix my problem, I'm ready to smash the phone against a wall... searched online for answers without any proper solution.
I have an iMac which stores all my music, pics, vids etc... of which I have MANY!
iTunes stores all my media except iPhoto which looks after all my pictures, which are nicely organised in separate event folders.
I want to be able to choose which of my 10billion iTunes songs to put onto my HTC One so I can play on the Music app wherever I am. Easy I would have thought - appears not. No idea how to transfer my itunes songs to the phone. I can't seem to mount the phone following instructions i find online, the USB settings I'm seeing mention nothing about mounting!
As for my pictures on iPhoto... again can't find an easy way of choosing which of my events I want to sync with the phone... the HTC sync manager seems to want to import and reorganise 28 years worth of my pictures into it's own date format which is just a mess. I want to work with iPhoto not this HTC sync manager
PLEASE can someone help me. Please please please..;..
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I have relatively the same issue.
Hi all,
I currently have a Sony Xperia Z3 Compact, and have purchased the XZ1 Compact. I have been unable to figure out how to transfer my settings (i.e. home screen layout and such) and apps to my new phone.
My old phone and new phone are not rooted, so I understand the actual app data would not transfer, but even if it just knew which apps to download it would be great.
I tried backing up using the Xperia software but it only wants to restore the same phone's content to the new one, it won't let me use a backup from another phone.
Would appreciate any advice.
Thanks!
Asya86 said:
Hi all,
I currently have a Sony Xperia Z3 Compact, and have purchased the XZ1 Compact. I have been unable to figure out how to transfer my settings (i.e. home screen layout and such) and apps to my new phone.
My old phone and new phone are not rooted, so I understand the actual app data would not transfer, but even if it just knew which apps to download it would be great.
I tried backing up using the Xperia software but it only wants to restore the same phone's content to the new one, it won't let me use a backup from another phone.
Would appreciate any advice.
Thanks!
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Make sure you have got Google syncronised on your old machine and that you have backup enabled in settings\back up restore. Once you log into your new phone Google should push all the apps that were on your old phone accross. It works three times out of four.
Install Xperia Transer Mobile on both devices and follow instructions. This will move your homescreen, contacts, MMS messages and phone events history. The only issue I had with this is sometimes it wouldn't work across wifi, and I think I ended up using the NFC tag and bluetooth method.
So if you have your apps and you have your homescreen & messages, you should be there.
The one thing I've enjoyed about Oreo is that your app passwords get carried over with your google account. So when you reinstall your Oreo build, it will offer to autofill your logins for you. Nice or creapy, depending on your point of view.
Didgesteve said:
Make sure you have got Google syncronised on your old machine and that you have backup enabled in settings\back up restore. Once you log into your new phone Google should push all the apps that were on your old phone accross. It works three times out of four.
Install Xperia Transer Mobile on both devices and follow instructions. This will move your homescreen, contacts, MMS messages and phone events history. The only issue I had with this is sometimes it wouldn't work across wifi, and I think I ended up using the NFC tag and bluetooth method.
So if you have your apps and you have your homescreen & messages, you should be there.
The one thing I've enjoyed about Oreo is that your app passwords get carried over with your google account. So when you reinstall your Oreo build, it will offer to autofill your logins for you. Nice or creapy, depending on your point of view.
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Thanks, that worked!
wrong subforum, sorry. please delete this post.
I will be doing the same thing tomorrow, when my XZ1c arrives, except I'll be moving from 2 phones to the new one - my Z5c with a messed up screen, and my Z1c, which was my backup for the last 6 weeks. Is this going to cause any issues?
dave
It will work.
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bigdfmartin said:
I will be doing the same thing tomorrow, when my XZ1c arrives, except I'll be moving from 2 phones to the new one - my Z5c with a messed up screen, and my Z1c, which was my backup for the last 6 weeks. Is this going to cause any issues?
dave
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It shouldn't have any issues. When restoring from your Google account synched backup you can only restore from one device. So during the xz1 setup choose the device with your preferred settings and app downloads.
When using the Xperia backup transfer tool all will be fine.
In case SMS and MMS doesn't transfer correctly I recommend using
SMS backup and restore +
From the play store.
I currently have a Z1 and will be upgrading to XZ2 Premium, I want to make sure that I can backup and transfer my Wifi passwords, Contacts and messaging is more or less routine so I want to know what works and your experience when you got the XZ2
I have used the PC Xperia Companion to back up my stuff, also used the Sony App Xperia Transfer from the PS and it says it backs up Wifi, I have also used google backup to the cloud and finally Titanium Backup XML (possibly needs root but have read it doesn't), all of these claim to backup Wifi but I have read from various sources that they don't work
So my question is how did you do it on your new XZ2 and what worked
Many thanks
so all the members here - this is their first smart phone
I only asked a simple question and I do hope that someone here will share their experience
it will not only help me but also help others that are going through this process
Geoffxx said:
so all the members here - this is their first smart phone
I only asked a simple question and I do hope that someone here will share their experience
it will not only help me but also help others that are going through this process
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I ignored the message, because it is my first Sony Phone.
I broke my Nexus 6 with water....
I could only use my Google backup and my brain.
MartinX3 said:
I ignored the message, because it is my first Sony Phone.
I broke my Nexus 6 with water....
I could only use my Google backup and my brain.
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well at least you replied even though my question remains unanswered
Sorry about your N6
The built-in app, Xperia Transfer Mobile worked fine for me...Phone logs, messages, settings, media, and apps transferred quite smoothly from an Lg to XZ2.
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The built-in app, Xperia Transfer Mobile worked fine for me...Phone logs, messages, settings, media, and apps transferred quite smoothly from an Lg to XZ2.
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cheers for that, including wifi - I have about 110 wifi passcodes, that would be a lot of time spent inputting even half of them lol
wouldn't really matter if both devices were rooted but the new one won't be
arjunm said:
The built-in app, Xperia Transfer Mobile worked fine for me...Phone logs, messages, settings, media, and apps transferred quite smoothly from an Lg to XZ2.
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Geoffxx said:
cheers for that, including wifi - I have about 110 wifi passcodes, that would be a lot of time spent inputting even half of them lol
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Interesting, my "Saved Networks" Wi-Fi settings did not get transferred from my XZ1 to XZ2 with XTM. And I could have sworn that worked seamlessly from XZ -> XZ1.
I ended up using the g Cloud Backup app for that. of course ever network now says it was "saved by g Cloud Backup" or some nonsense which is a bit silly.
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Interesting, my "Saved Networks" Wi-Fi settings did not get transferred from my XZ1 to XZ2 with XTM. And I could have sworn that worked seamlessly from XZ -> XZ1.
I ended up using the g Cloud Backup app for that. of course ever network now says it was "saved by g Cloud Backup" or some nonsense which is a bit silly.
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Thanks for the reply, but - as far as I understand "g cloud backup" requires root access to backup wifi passwords so, yes, you can backup wifi and restore them to a rooted device and that is fine, I have various apps and various copies of my wifi passwords all over the place …………...but my phone is rooted, my new phone will not be rooted so again the question remains unanswered about wifi passwords
I would have thought that the official Sony Transfer App would transfer wifi passwords to a new phone but I have read from several sources and people that is does not, I have also heard some say that it did, the other stuff like contacts - call logs - messages etc is not in question and is routine but it seems there is still conflicting information about wifi passwords.
It is also worth noting that with wifi passwords is not obvious that they were transferred, you need to look hard to establish if they were or go to a previously known hotspot and see if it logs in, it will initially show as disabled in the wifi list but once enabled it will login as normal if the password was transferred
From what I can gather the Xperia transfer app will transfer wifi passwords providing both devices are Xperia and that you choose that option on both phones
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Thanks for the reply, but - as far as I understand "g cloud backup" requires root ...
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yeah, it looks like g Cloud didn't transfer the passwords, which is annoying (and I avoid rooting on Sony's because of the DRM stuff). Google itself, with their backup stores them too reportedly, but it seems to be a bit random as to when it actually restores them and there is no way to force it to do so. XTM has worked fine in the past and I may try again to transfer just the minimum and see if I cant get them again.
Edit: well, I guess this explains it. Went back to Xperia Transfer Mobile to see about doing a WiFi direct transfer of only the access points saved. After pairing the devices together, under the list of items to transfer, Apps & Settings->WiFi Networks, it is grayed out and says "No Data". Even though there are over 400 (!) networks listed under "Saved Networks." on the XZ1. So for some reason, XTM doesn't want to transfer them or has some access rights problem (I'm on Oreo 8.0 with both devices).
I read somewhere that XTM doesn't like transferring items that are backed up elsewhere. Maybe it thinks letting Google do it itself under Oreo is the way to go? I'll have to go to the Sony Mobile forums and see if others are having the same issue. Bother.
I will be doing it later and will let you know how I get on, one thing I do know is that the xml file for wifi passwords was backed up to my SD card using the Xperia Transfer App because I looked at them in the folder, I get my new phone later today and will see what happens, if XTA was able to extract the passwords and save them then I see know reason why they cannot be restored to the new phone as it obviously must have access in order to extract them as long as both phones are Sony Xperia, in fact it says that in the app description on PS
just a quick update, I just started up my new XZ2 Premium and went through the startup procedure which just automatically asked me did I want to transfer from my old device which I said yes, paired them using NFC and let them get on with it, all wifi passwords were copied over
My devices are usually rooted, so:
- contacts are exported to vcf & restored in the contacts app (I used to run a radicale server for contacts & calendar, but it wasn't worth it)
- I rarely use the calendar, so nothing there
- wifi: backed up file via root: /data/misc/wifi/wpa_supplicant.conf
- apps & app data: I used to use Helium, but it stopped being reliable & I switched to oandbackups (requires root)
- for internal storage, I just did an adb pull/push, as since Nougat, adb reflects not only the files, but the directory structure as well.
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My devices are usually rooted, so:
- contacts are exported to vcf & restored in the contacts app (I used to run a radicale server for contacts & calendar, but it wasn't worth it)
- I rarely use the calendar, so nothing there
- wifi: backed up file via root: /data/misc/wifi/wpa_supplicant.conf
- apps & app data: I used to use Helium, but it stopped being reliable & I switched to oandbackups (requires root)
- for internal storage, I just did an adb pull/push, as since Nougat, adb reflects not only the files, but the directory structure as well.
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That is great and pretty much what most people would do if both devices were rooted
What would you do if the new phone is not rooted and not much chance of it being rooted any time soon - which is what this thread is about