Four Essential Productivity Apps For Android Tablets

11.05.2011

At long last, Google Docs has emerged as an app in its own right, and it's shockingly good. As a longtime user of Google Docs in my daily work life, where the Web apps' collaboration features just barely offset their ridiculously bad support for basic .doc formatting, I've tried my fair share of third-party apps that sync with Google Docs. None of them come close to this app's clean integration with the service. This is the app Google Docs users have been waiting for, it's free, and it's especially good on a tablet display.

Dropbox

My favorite synced storage service is also a great Honeycomb app. Dropbox delivers awesome readability for synced files, displays pictures and PDFs beautifully, and hands off work documents to Docs To Go with ease. The Dropbox app is not tablet-optimized in any noticeable way, but works very well on the larger screen anyway. I can only hope the folks at Dropbox are working quickly on an interface that takes better advantage of the larger screen.

Thinking Space

I wrote about Thinking Space a couple of weeks ago when I covered , and gave it a pretty strong thumbs up for Android users. But that was before I tried it on a tablet, which is an experience so phenomenally superior to what the app can do on phones that it practically warrants a complete reappraisal on this platform. If you use mind mapping frequently, and you've been thinking of getting an Android tablet, you're going to love this combination.