Thank you Verizon, for a mini digital wordpad I already carried around: my phone.
I have an EnV2. The secret is out. And, oh noes! Anyway, a lot of phones these days include a full keyboard for easier texting, which also means easier note-taking or brainstorming when on-the-go. Whether this means you woke up late for class, or you’re waiting for the East County Youth Symphony (they’re amazing, and the program– including weekly lessons– is completely free for the kids.) to begin, you again have the capability to write.
Maybe this is a problem that has only plagued me. I am constantly trying to write. First drafts of poems have occurred on TV Dinner boxes, but most often, on receipts. Or at least receipt paper. But now you don’t have to master the art of miniscule-printing, you have essentially a novelty, or micro-machines version of an old school Brother word processor, the evolutionary interstep between typewriters and computers for most consumers at the time. But I’m a hopeless narrative addict.
Enough dilly-dallying. On the EnV2 there’re easy shortcuts to get you directly to the Notepad function. (I love that Wordpress gave e a red underline for “there’re” but not dillydallying, even when I had it as one word. DON’T RELY on SPELLCHECK. It’s already bitten me in the ass more than once on this thing.) Menu (OK)-9-2-8. [If you’re curious, that’s for (9) Settings and Tools (2) Tools (8) Wordpad.] Four keytouches and you’re ready to either work from a saved file or start a new file.The keys are very small and I kind of feel like Will Ferrell in that Jeffrey’s skit where Jimmy Fallon kept laughing, using a thin stick to punch the keys, but I manage well enough, and will soon be testing the Wordpad function’s memory capabilities, because I have a feeling I’ll be using it a lot during downtime to work on projects.
