New toy!

[ysobel]

...also, my brain is weird, but that is not at all new.

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So I seem to have acquired an iPad. (Combined birthday plus early Christmas present from my dad and sister.) This is very much yay \o/ there was sonic dolphin squeaking noises going on when I got it.

However, since this was one of the "omg waaaaant but can't afford, gah" sorts of things, I haven't been paying attention to what all is available, especially in the way of apps.

So. Any suggestions? Especially for:

a) increasing the sorts of ebooks I can read (I currently have a stash of ebooks / downloaded fanfic / etc, in forms ranging from .pdf (which it seems okay with) and .epub (ditto) to .html and .rtf and .txt (which it doesn't, but I suppose I could "print" them to pdfs?)

b) writing (since it might make a nice portable ... thing what is for writing)

c) knitting-related whatevers

?

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Also, er, remind me how to get info off of an iPod? I've been afraid to sync up my iPod because it has all the right musics and playlists and stuff, and while I have the music files more or less restored from backup data, the playlist info did not seem to come with, and I really do not want to have to do all that again.

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nano wordcount for today: er. 138. I know the day isn't over, but sheesh. My daily wordcount is kind of plummeting (845 for day 8, 611 for day 9, 358 for day 10), and it's become less "novel" and more "random unconnected scenes" because I have NFI where I'm going... or rather, I have one idea left and I'm afraid to write that because then I won't have anything so I'm trying to delay getting there? I don't even know.

And I try bribing myself ("X words and you can do/have Y", where X ranges from 2k to 1k to 500 to 250 and even that last feels impossible, and Y ranges from WoW to ebz to playing with new toys to knitting to reading to having chocolate to whatever) and it NEVER WORKS. I don't know what's wrong with me, because it ought to work, it just ... doesn't.

Comments

[niqaeli]

Self-bribery's never worked for me. I not only know how arbitrary it is, I know I can change my mind at any time, which means that it is in no way meaningful to me.

So, I don't know, I don't think there's necessarily something wrong with you.

I wish I could offer you better ideas on how to do stuff anyway, but I'm not actually sure how I ever get stuff done without hard, non-negotiable deadlines -- just that I sometimes do.

(Deadlines are reasonably effective on me. I can do a lot of stuff under genuine deadline that I cannot otherwise ever get done.)

[rainbow]

oooh, congratulations on the new toy!

P just found a program that converts between a bunch of ebook formats; ifyou want details, lmk and i'll ask him.

i'm having trouble with word count, too, and lots of unrelated scenes. and trying to figure out what order they go in (they all fit with the overall arc, but could go lots of places) and i know there's lots missing, but i don't know WHAT yet, and it's very frustrating. :(

[ailelie]

Well, ebz is timed, yes? So use up all your actions and then write until you can use all your actions again?

Anyway, your words counts are better than my 000s for the past two days. So... ganbare!

[azurelunatic]

Stop iTunes from trying to sync when the iPod is connected. Turn off iTunes so that Windows will realize that it can read the iPod as a drive. Open iPod. View hidden files. Look at all the cryptically named things and freak out.