I’m in the process of re-laying out my home office space to improve the storage and workflow. I have a business meeting in the city this afternoon, then will have time to swing by Ikea on the way back home, but I need to take a photo and some quick dimensions with me.
I took a quick, low resolution shot of my current layout with my digital camera. It didn’t have to look pretty, so I didn’t spend any time fussing with the settings. Then I transferred the photo into my iPad using the Apple iPad Camera Connection Kit SD card connector.
On the iPad I pulled the image into the Sketches2 app. I’m sure there are better apps available for what I wanted to do, but this is the one that I’m most familar with and was already installed.
Grabbing my tape measure I took the critical dimensions of the space, and added the annotations to the photo. Then I exported the image to the iPad Photo album. The entire process took less than 5 minutes. Now I can walk through Ikea getting ideas while referring to the image on my iPad.
Pretty cool. 
Before/After pictures will be posted soon!
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