The tool I use to do this is called Evernote, and it’s not just for writers. This mix of different types of files are kept in a single location that I can access on my iPad at any time. ![]() ![]() ![]() For example, in my research for this book I collected (and scanned) brochures on hardware, online reference articles, photos of products, screenshots of software, and even videos and voice recordings. I write technology books, so there are times when I want to have all my research files in one location and not scattered over a number of folders. (And these subfolders don’t just contain scanned pages that I’ve turned into PDFs-later in Chapter 12, “‘Plays Well with Others’: Remote Control and an Extra Screen,” I’ll show you how to convert online articles you find into PDFs.)Īlthough I use my 3TB hard drive to organize similar files (only MP3 music files go into the Music folder), I use another tool when I need to collect a variety of file types into one central location. I store scanned articles from woodworking magazines in the Woodworking folder and scanned recipes in the Recipes folder. For example, my PDF Articles folder contains five folders: Woodworking, Health, Recipes, Technology, and Electronics. you get the idea.Īnd inside each folder are subfolders. For example, on my 3TB external hard drive I have a number of folders I’ve created: Movies, Music, Photos, PDF Articles. If you’ve worked with computers at all, you know that there’s value in creating folders for storing and dividing up your files to make them easier to find. Although it’s great to have a 1TB hard drive available to your iPad, you’re only creating more work for yourself if you throw every file-song, movie, PDF, Word doc, and so on-into a single folder labeled Documents (or My Documents), for example. Whether you go with a cloud-based storage service such as Dropbox or choose to use a Pogoplug service to create a home-based, local storage system, you’ll have in place a storage solution for your iPad that will help ensure you always have access to anything and everything you choose to store digitally.īut let’s talk for a moment about file organization. With the additional storage (discussed previously in Chapter 3, “Additional iPad Storage Options”) available to your iPad, I hope you’re beginning to see how you could take just about any file, document, movie, or photo and make it immediately available. ![]() Ultimate iPad, The: Your Digital Life at Your Fingertips
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