So life got very
interesting for the last two months or so.
Along with starting to prepare for my writing career, specifically
copywriting… I’ve gained a new member of the family.
Having a new puppy must be like having
a kid; you can’t let them out of anyone’s sight for a moment or they’ll get
into trouble. I can’t always be at my desktop computer because I have to be on
my toes in case she needs to go out, or I need to stop her from ripping up a
carpet or chewing on a shoe (yeah it happens).
So what do I do now?
I read and write with my mobile
devices: my Android smartphone and an e-reader tablet.
I used to look at people working or
reading on their phones and think, “Hey, either they barely have time to do
those things on a desktop or laptop, or they just can’t wait and they’ve gotta do
it now on their mobile device.” They read
the news, check the weather or write a document or create a graph. They may even play a video game of course (or
more accurately called, mobile gaming).
I now find myself at the point where I
must use my phone and my tablet to get a lot of things done, sometimes to get
ANYTHING done, because without them I can’t be in the same room with my young
dog. Granted other family members take
turns watching over her—my sister otherwise watches the puppy too—so that we
don’t wear ourselves out too much. The best time for me to use any device is
when the puppy is sleeping. When there are a few calm minutes, that’s the best
time to use my mobile devices too.
I love typing on my Windows 7 desktop
computer, as I am with writing this post, but now it’s a “sometimes” task and
not an “everyday” task. These days I’m reading or writing on my tablet or my Android
phone if I have to stand up and be ready at a moment’s notice. And guess what? I enjoy using the WPS Office app on both my
phone and my tablet for typing up documents. And the cool thing is, I can share
and edit the documents between either mobile device.
Not too long of a
time ago I thought, “No, I’m not going to use my tablet for professional development. It’ is for recreation only.”
Well, now it’s essential for
productivity. I use them for recreation
half of the time and professional development the other half of the time.
I’m spoiled now. Both my Android smartphone and my tablet have
keyboards with word prediction or auto-correct functions. Not just that but,
also I can type with the “Swype” function.
My desktop? Of course it doesn’t
have any of that, and I find myself getting just a bit frustrated from the lack
of convenience.
And that’s okay. Both desktop and
mobile forms of computers have plusses and minuses to them. I may type slower
on mobile devices but I type a heck of a lot faster on the desktop. I use my
Android phone as an on-demand notepad now; Inkpad Notepad is my favorite
note-taking app to use, but every once in a while I copy/paste some notes to
WPS for a doc. version of it. You know,
to format some of the font, such as bold and italics.
So, I still value using a desktop
computer to get work done. But now I also have two mobile devices that help me to
continue getting work done.
Do I have to rely on mobile devices? No $#!%, heck yeah, but I love these things now!
What are your thoughts on mobile devices and how they
make your life easier? Have you owned one or more for a long time, or are you just
getting started?
