For me, one of the most exciting parts of the iPad introduction back in January of this year was when Phil Schiller gave demos of the iWork productivity suite for iPad. I wanted a device that would combine the functions of both my Kindle and my netbook and the iWork suite made that possible.

But after purchasing Keynote, Pages and Numbers, I found that they fell short in one key area: document management. The universal method for moving files between your desktop (Mac, in my case) and your iPad is iTunes and as many have lamented across the interwebs, it’s a pretty poor experience.

There’s no versioning and syncing seems less than intelligent, making it possible to overwrite your work on one device or the other. Short of document syncing in the cloud, Ecamm’s PadSync seems to ease my pain quite nicely.