(This is the second part of my short series about the iPad at work.)

The first day of the conference is about to end. I’m currently in my hotel room, writing this blog post. So far the iPad has worked great as my main computer-like tool for the conference.

I’ve mostly been taking notes, which has worked out a whole lot better than I thought. I can actually type really fast on the on screen keyboard, much faster than I’d imagined. There is however a small difference between taking the notes and writing this blog post, even though they’re both mostly done in Byword. The difference is that while the blog posts is written in English, my notes are in Swedish. Surely you’d expect me to be better at Swedish than English and that is certainly the case, however the small difference that makes a big difference is the keyboard. In Sweden we have the characters ”å”, ”ä” and ”ö”. This means that a few extra keys need to be fitted on screen which in turn means all keys gets slightly smaller, and have a smaller space between them. The difference is subtle, but it does have some impact on my typing abilities.

The english keyboard

The Swedish keyboard

Apart from taking notes I’ve also been preparing a keynote for tomorrow. This, however, will be saved for another blog post.

I’ve previously written a bit about using the iPad (and before that the iPhone) as an entertainment device while on the road. This is the first post of a short series about using it for work. I’m not the first to post about this and I will certainly not be the last, but I think it’s interesting for me to actually writing down my experience with the iPad as a post-pc workhorse.

Anyway, right now I’m on a conference in Örebro where all the sound and music production educations in Sweden meet. I’ve decided to leave the computer at home and just bring the iPad for note taking, email and all other things that might be necessary. This post is also written on the iPad in the newly launched app Byword for iPad.

(This post will be updated with links to all subsequent posts in the series.)