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I must confess, I am a massive iPad fan. The iPad is great for games, but it is also great for business stuff.

Here is a list of the apps I regularly use on the iPad for business:

• Note Taker – for hand-written meeting notes. After each meeting I email these notes to Evernote, which means the handwritten notes can be searched online.
• GoodReader – to read documents for meetings. It connects to our Google Docs, Dropbox, email, and shared files accounts, so I can easily get to any document.
• Reeder – to read a handful of online blogs.
• Toodledo – for my ToDo list.
• FastEver XL – to quickly save notes to Evernote.
• Mindmeister – for planning and organising with mindmaps. All mindmaps are stored online, so I can update them from the computer as well.

What other great iPad apps do you use for business? I’d love to know, so please add your comments below.

A few months ago I ditched my paper meeting notebook, in favour of a techie (and nerdy) solution on the iPad.

Some people type their notes directly into the iPad with the onscreen keyboard, but I type too slow, so I needed a different solution.

That is when I found the brilliant Note Taker app. It lets you easily write handwritten notes on the iPad screen. It has a clever way to let you write your notes quite large, and it automatically makes your handwriting smaller.

You can write the notes directly on the screen with a finger, but I use a small pen, the PogoSketch. It makes the writing quicker and easier.

After the meeting I email the note to Evernote. That way the note is automatically backed up, if the iPad is lost.

Also, Evernote is pretty good at understanding handwriting and makes the notes searchable. This is handy when I am looking for an old note a few months later. Just type a word into Evernote and it shows all my handwritten notes that contain that word. Easy-peasy.