RELY ON MOBILE DEVICES? NO $#!%, HECK YEAH!!

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?