Comments on: Defining the new office suite: 5 essential apps for work http://gigaom.com/2012/09/01/defining-the-new-office-suite-5-essential-apps-for-work/ Sat, 25 May 2013 16:05:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Carroll Taggart http://gigaom.com/2012/09/01/defining-the-new-office-suite-5-essential-apps-for-work/#comment-984872 Sun, 09 Sep 2012 16:16:04 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=558105#comment-984872 What are some apps that can enhance learning in a middle school classroom?

]]> By: Marcus http://gigaom.com/2012/09/01/defining-the-new-office-suite-5-essential-apps-for-work/#comment-967213 Sun, 02 Sep 2012 16:55:45 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=558105#comment-967213 I use my iPad, for most of my computer tasks, when traveling for business. The Upad app gets used the most for note taking because it gives me the ability to take notes and proof/mark up PDF’s. I would also be interested in a good review of project management apps.

]]> By: Geoffrey Goetz http://gigaom.com/2012/09/01/defining-the-new-office-suite-5-essential-apps-for-work/#comment-965654 Sat, 01 Sep 2012 19:14:11 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=558105#comment-965654 I am interested in the project management apps you are using. For me, they have all moved to the cloud in the form of pivotal tracker, basecamp and asana. I don’t know if I would consider the client side of these services candidates for this sort of list. But they are certainly an essential part of how I work each day.

I do experiment and try out new apps all the time, but I keep looking for better solutions that fit these five categories. Currently these are the ones in each category I use the most.

]]> By: McLars http://gigaom.com/2012/09/01/defining-the-new-office-suite-5-essential-apps-for-work/#comment-965539 Sat, 01 Sep 2012 18:23:29 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=558105#comment-965539 Nice list… if you’re a professional blogger and your office is Starbucks. Honestly, there are a lot more people who do use spreadsheets every day, all day. I do think the office suites will change eventually, but that is a long way off. What we are seeing now is the addition of note/idea applications (e.g. OneNote) to the current suites. Full blown word processing and spreadsheet applications are not going away anytime soon.

The other new types of applications that are becoming essential are communications (not necessarily social) and project management.

]]> By: Mr. Bee http://gigaom.com/2012/09/01/defining-the-new-office-suite-5-essential-apps-for-work/#comment-965359 Sat, 01 Sep 2012 17:08:48 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=558105#comment-965359 I tried NoteTaker but found it impossible to use as it’s so incredibly ugly. Lime-green, yellow and yellow-brown for icon colours? Yech!

The whole application looks like it was hit with an ugly stick or (more likely) that the people who designed it simply have no sense of aesthetics at all.

It was that thought that stopped me using it anymore.

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