Did you know that pages and iannotate (amongst I'm sure others) play nicely with the mail program built into the pad? This weekend I was pleasantly surprised to see that I could actually open messages from my hotmail account and their attachments straight to the pad.
I know, people with "real" computers are scoffing right now, but some of the fun challenges of being on the bleeding edge are these new discoveries. With 3.2 the iPad is able to share documents, albeit a little cumbersomely, across apps. You can use your connect app to download and view your documents, but then determine that this particular one insults your good name and must be annotated/edited you can just click on the header to "Open in".
Still waiting for someone to come up with something a little more seamless than the iTunes sync option to transfer docs back and forth. Every app needs to "export" to that folder that iTunes knows about in order to be able to sync. Makes keeping things up to date in both locations a bit of a pain, and while using Google Docs would resolve that, that too has its challenges. What google needs to do is come out with a desktop app that lets me assign folders and sync them so I can just drop a file in a folder and whoosh there it is uploaded. The extra 3-4 steps to get a document up there are sometimes more hassle than they are worth.
Padsync looks promising, except its Mac only right now... ah well only a matter of time with close to 3 million iPads sold the growing kinks will be out of the system and we'll all be better off because of it.
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