How Many Notebooks Do You Use?
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@Carnival-Boy said:
@Minion-Queen said:
Now that I have the Surface pro2 I use that and one note.
The biggest problem I have with using a tablet for note taking in meetings is the lock screen. You go to write something and your tablet has automatically locked itself. So you have to unlock it. Which takes about ten seconds.
10 seconds? do you have to enter a 37 character password?
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I should time my time to get back in but ten seconds isn't unrealistic. Gotta swipe the screen, type password, have it unlock....
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OK, hang on, let me time it......
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OK. it's more like two seconds.
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@Carnival-Boy said:
OK. it's more like two seconds.
two seconds I can totally believe - and i don't consider unreasonable.
I try to get people around here to lock their computer when they walk away from their desk (about 100 times a day). At 2 seconds each time to get back to the desktop, I'm only adding 200 seconds or 3.3333 mins to their day - yet they complain like I'm cutting off their leg.Back to the OP - I use a legal pad when needed (rarely), and tons of post it notes in my office.
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Post-it notes are Devil's work. When I become CEO banning them will be my first priority.
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I just timed my iPad 2 with BT keyboard and password not code. Took seven seconds.
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@Carnival-Boy said:
@Minion-Queen said:
Now that I have the Surface pro2 I use that and one note.
The biggest problem I have with using a tablet for note taking in meetings is the lock screen. You go to write something and your tablet has automatically locked itself. So you have to unlock it. Which takes about ten seconds.
Are you using Windows 8? You can use the gesture-based login.
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@scottalanmiller said:
I just timed my iPad 2 with BT keyboard and password not code. Took seven seconds.
I'm an iPad2 with pass-code.
Regardless of the time, having to unlock a tablet every time you want to jot down a note in a meeting seems to me to be a complete pain.
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@alexntg said:
@Carnival-Boy said:
@Minion-Queen said:
Now that I have the Surface pro2 I use that and one note.
The biggest problem I have with using a tablet for note taking in meetings is the lock screen. You go to write something and your tablet has automatically locked itself. So you have to unlock it. Which takes about ten seconds.
Are you using Windows 8? You can use the gesture-based login.
It would like the gesture that I would give it.
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My "notepad" is either OneNote or Evernote. Evernote is on all my mobile devices and now with O365 web apps, I can use OneNote online from my ODfB/SharePoint site.
My phone has a color note app I use when I need personal lists.
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@scottalanmiller said:
I just timed my iPad 2 with BT keyboard and password not code. Took seven seconds.
hmm... this seems very long!
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@Dashrender said:
@scottalanmiller said:
I just timed my iPad 2 with BT keyboard and password not code. Took seven seconds.
hmm... this seems very long!
Using full passwords with a touch screen makes it slow. No fast way to do it.
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Why use a full password on an iPad?
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
@scottalanmiller said:
I just timed my iPad 2 with BT keyboard and password not code. Took seven seconds.
hmm... this seems very long!
Using full passwords with a touch screen makes it slow. No fast way to do it.
I have to give you that! but you said you were using a BT keyboard...
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When I do have a password I do a Pin on my ipad/phone (I hated the finger print thing, if I had lotion on it wouldn't work). on my Surface I use the picture thing but again I shut that off before going into a meeting.
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can you use the 'picture thing' with a domain logon? Is your SP joined to the domain?
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@Dashrender said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
@scottalanmiller said:
I just timed my iPad 2 with BT keyboard and password not code. Took seven seconds.
hmm... this seems very long!
Using full passwords with a touch screen makes it slow. No fast way to do it.
I have to give you that! but you said you were using a BT keyboard...
Yes which helps keep it down to seven seconds unless it doesn't sync up. Then it takes far longer.
Having to swipe to unlock then switch to keyboard for the password is jarring and inefficient. That's partly why it takes so long.
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Tablets definitely have a more difficult time dealing with this. We don't use them here, we are strickly laptops/desktops. Entering a password takes a long as it does to type the password.
I could definitely see the complaint if you have to type a password on a tablet 50+ times a day. In that case I'd be OK with using a 6 digit pin with the hopes that someone would report their device missing ASAP after they noticed it was gone so it could be deactivated. But I'm not worried to much about this, our EHR vendor is so far behind I don't forsee us using tablets (i.e. iPads, android) for at last two more years.
