Hello All,
Figured I would pop something up here. It’s not particularly important or anything, but since this is the feedback section, why not!
I purchased DTTO yesterday afternoon.
I had a bit of extra credit lying around in my iTunes account - having prepped for purchasing Mavericks (that turned out, of course, to be free!)…
I was very nervous about potentially ‘blowing’ $15… The iTunes comments/reviews, have a fair amount of people complaining about synching issues - and there are obviously quite a few doing the rounds on this forum as well…
So - I guess I wasn’t exactly going in to this with high expectations - but, so far, I have been pleasantly surprised! Yes - there have been 1/2 minor issues - with a connection error popping up most frequently… But a bit of playing around with the “reset” option, usually gets things going again…
But what has me most excited - is the potential! I would much prefer to do my highlighting/annotating of pdf’s on Goodreader/my iPad, than on my MBP… It means I’m not necessarily tied to my desk anymore… Yes - I will still need to make a plan about aligning highlighter colours between GR and DTP (hopefully I will be able to make a plan here) - and will still need to check one or two things (if I highlight in GR/iPad - can the highlight be ‘removed/cleansed’ off the PDF in DTP?) - but as I’ve said - so much potential here…
By example - I replicated a 1 page pdf out of a research folder, into the synch folder - synched it over to the iPad - exported it into Goodreader - made changes - exported it back to DTTG - synched again - opened it in DTP - confirmed the changes had been reflected, and then opened the sister/twin/replicated file in the research folder, and the changes were there as well…
I know - [u]OLD[/u] news for most people here - but wow - this going to be really useful…
Oh - and to top it all off - I never actually realised I would be able to import files from my other apps (e.g. NoteTakerHD) into DTTG, to then synch it’s way back into DTP… I had some really neat/nifty/klunky Hazel & IFTTT workarounds, that do amazing things (automatic OCR’ing, if needed) before getting the file into DTP - but having DTTG right on my iPad will no doubt make things easier… Once again - OLD news - cannot quite work out why I never had a closer look at DTTG earlier, but hey - better late than never…
So - don’t know who I’ve written this for… Maybe for others who, like me, were possibly put off by a lot of the negative spin… I for one am very glad I took the chance…
I know it might still end up frustrating me - and I really hope I don’t end up with duplicate entries like some folk have - but I’ll say it for a 3rd time - the potential on offer here, has me quite prepared to take the risk!!