Well, I couldn’t help myself. I bought the iPad – the to-be-shipped-in-late-April, 3G & WiFi, 64 gig model.
I see significant work applications – for instance, keeping all client files available for court, creating eBooks of NC criminal code so I don’t need to lug around books, and, I hope, doing document signing on the fly.
I have not used DocuSign yet since, until now, I’ve been doing criminal law which doesn’t have a lot of documents that need to be signed, and, what’s more, they usually are signed in court.
But I’m starting to do bankruptcy and civil litigation work related to debt defense, and for that I think I’ll either subscribe to DocuSign or some similar service. DocuSign claims their service works with the iPad, although they haven’t created an App for that. As Greg mentioned, they need to Get On That.
I’ll post a review once I get the iPad in late April or early May.
UPDATE: I’ve been searching for a good list of productivity apps for professionals. I stumbled across this article in Forbes Woman which I found pretty irritating. Why? Second app listed is “Big Oven,” an app to help people find recipes so if you “[e]ver find yourself roaming grocery store aisles with little or no clue what to make for dinner.” Are you kidding me? Is this the second most important app for working professionals? No: it’s just obnoxious sexism.
Brian Brady says:
Big Oven is a really useful app. If the readers of Forbes Woman consider themselves grocery shoppers, that ranking makes complete sense.
April 11, 2010 — 1:57 pm
Damon Chetson says:
No doubt. That said, would that be among the top 10 productive apps for professional men in Forbes?
April 11, 2010 — 2:48 pm
Brian Brady says:
“…would that be among the top 10 productive apps for professional men in Forbes?”
I don’t think it would rank among the top 10 for the readers of Forbes. I do think it would rank high for the readers of Forbes Woman because I believe there is a higher concentration of “primary household grocery shoppers” in that publication.
If Forbes assumed that premise because of their gender, the article is sexist. If it assumed that premise because of surveyed fact, they’re tailoring the article to its audience. I might be splitting hairs but I think there is a difference.
Discussion aside, secondary household grocery shoppers could benefit even more from the Big Oven app. The app compiles over 170,000 recipes and immediately converts the recipe into an ingredient list, which can be “added” to an aggregate grocery list. If you are not a creative cook and/or dread weekly grocery shopping, Big Oven is a huge time saver
April 11, 2010 — 5:12 pm
Robert Worthington says:
Damon, have you considered a tablet pc? Seems that could also possibly fit your mold.
April 11, 2010 — 6:15 pm
An Bui, DocuSign Social Media says:
Hi Damon! Thank you for mentioning your thoughts about DocuSign on the iPad. DocuSign runs in the safari browser that’s standard for the iPad, so there’s no need to wait for the DocuSign iPad App. That said, we were looking at providing a version of DocuSign for the iPad, but there’s no news on availability yet.
Doug Rybacki, the director of product management, shared some tips about using DocuSign from the iPad:
http://www.docusign.com/blog/2010/04/05/want-to-use-esign-from-docusign-on-your-apple-ipad/
Hope that was helpful – please let me know if you need anything else!
Best,
An
April 12, 2010 — 10:07 am