The beginning of an era...

Last week, something momentous happened - I got an IPad!! After coveting one forever, coping with a now-ancient laptop powered by hamsters, a February and March full of lots of gigs, tax refund time, and the end of winter when the heat is no longer on all the time, the time was right and I went for it.

Immediately I had doubts:  should I have gone for the IPad mini?  I'm still wondering about that.  It's so very portable.  (Maybe I need one of those too!). But other than size, though I'm still fumbling around and getting used to it, I love my iPad.  Yesterday, it left the house for the first time.

One of my chief reasons for getting the iPad, other than to essentially take the place of my laptop, is to help me reduce the load of things I carry all of the time.  I have endless pieces of paper that are essential to my life - dance notes, to-do lists, calendar, address lists, magazines to read in case I finish my book on the train, and on and on.  I've done a good job at consolidating some of these items, but still, there are a lot of them.  Enter iPad.  Thanks to the use of Evernote, and other apps, I'm slowly transferring my lists into formats that I can access from anywhere.  I did get a Kindle in December, so now Craig can use that, while I use the Kindle app.  Dancing Master, you are my summer project!!! Can't wait.

So back to yesterday.  In the typical way of all crafters, I have a ton of supplies.  Okay, more than that, but nevertheless, the key is that they are hard to keep track of.  But enter my love of lists and organization.  I have a rubber stamp catalog, and I'm more than half done with my stamp drawer maps which makes it so much easier to find things and quickly put them away.  I also maintain spreadsheets of embossing folders I own, and those I want to buy.  I created that inventory after mistakenly purchasing the same set twice - not doing that again.  So naturally, as I was off to the rubber stamp show yesterday, it was essential to bring my lists along.  And there they were, on the iPad, which I also used to take pictures of a couple of examples I wanted to replicate back at home.  Perfect.  Eventually, in my copious free time, I'll create a full electronic inventory of all of my craft supplies.  I think I even found an app for just that.

I still may get an iPad mini at some point.  Maybe over the summer.  Who knows...

I know you all probably have one of these.  If so, what apps should I get immediately?