I just bought a Nexus 7, and wonder if anyone has suggestions as to good apps.

While I will use it primarily for reading - books, newspapers, and magazines - I will no doubt do some note-taking and writing on the Nexus.

I have already download Evernote and my EN notes. I like the way Evernotes works on the Nexus, but so far have been unable to find a way for it to clip highlighted areas of web pages or entire pages.

Of the various news apps I like Fipboard - it seems like an elegant way to get news content. I have also the apps for a handful of newspapers I follow.

I use LibreOffice as my main word processing program, and am testing KingsoftOffice.

I use qiqqa as my home base for working with academic articles, and very much like the program.

I wonder about info management apps for the Nexus, but there are so many Android apps it's a bit overwhelming.

And while I'm casting about, and for something completely different, I'd be interested in a good meteorological study app - not a weather app - but one which allows for study of the area, and has photos and diagrams.

Also, want to download National Geographic app.

I must say I am delighted with the quality of the Nexus screen, and find it super easy to read from. I have yet to get the knack of highlighting and making notes in Kindle and epub Reader (Sony variety).

While I wish to be able to use the Nexus for some study & writing, I suspect it will let me do much more intentional reading and viewing of photos which reflect my interests, apart from professional material related to chaplaincy, psychotherapy, psychoneurobiology, etc.

Thanks for any suggestions, ideas.

Daly (having fun with his new toy)

I use LibreOffice as my main word processing program, and am testing KingsoftOffice.<

I am very interested in your experience with KingsoftOffice.

Do try SoftMaker Office on the Nexus, too - it's a great suite and boasts an impressive standard of Office compatibility. It's also available for Windows. German, I'm glad to say!

I agree with you about the screen! The Nexus is one of the nicest little tablets out there, especially for the price. Having said that, I've just had a fun time playing with some of these Windows 8 hybrids in Heathrow: some very good-looking, smooth-responding goodies out there, especially from Samsung. Although my current fave is Lenovo and its Yoga IdeaPads; but they don't break into two (tablet + keyboard), unlike the Samsung and Asus offerings.

The Samsung iPad Mini (sorry! I meant of course the Galaxy Note 8!) is the other device that's well worth a look - it's a nice form factor (hence Apple's increasingly ubiquitous device). But the Nexus - my son has one - is very cool, and the screen is amazing.

My only other recommendation would be NoteCase Pro, depending on whether you're a Windows user. If you are, you can get NoteCase for both platforms. It's a powerful notes manager/two-pane outliner, and is in steady development.

Oh, and EMA Personal Wiki (also for desktop/Android) is quite a nice wiki solution - the Android version is a bit buggy, but is perfectly stable, and the instant sync (through Dropbox) is very useful.

Finally, Microsoft's OneNote app for Android is fairly good, free, and syncs directly with SkyDrive. The only thing it doesn't have (which the Windows and iOS versions do) is a search function, but for general notetaking and quick transfers between PC and tablet, it's not bad at all.

One thing I strongly suggest for the Nexus 7 is a case with a magnetic cover to turn the screen on and off. This makes the device more like a book that you can carry around and simply open to begin working on. I tried several and settled on the Moko Slim-Fit case - $15 at Amazon,com. I also works as a (landscape mode) stand and provides a hand strap that helps keep the tablet from falling on my nose if I fall asleep reading in bed.

Unlike the iPad, an Android device works like a real computer with a real file system. This means that sooner or later, if you are going to use the tablet effectively, you will want a file manager. My favorite is X-plore because its dual pane explorer lets me easily copy files to and from the PCs on my home network. Others I use are File Expert (which has a built-in ftp server), FX and ES File Explorer.

One issue I have with the the Android keyboard is the lack of cursor keys, so I use a keyboard app on all my devices. On my phone, I use Swiftkey 3, but on the Nexus, I like the Hacker's Keyboard because it gives me something much more like a full 4-row desktop keyboard.

My primary use for the Nexus is reading, and I have tried quite a few ebook readers. In my opinion, the best are Mantano Reader Premium and Moon+ Reader Pro, both of do a great job with PDF documents as well as with epub books. Mantano has excellent navigatiion, both within documents and across the file system. Moon+ handles footnote links better.

I use Word and Excel on my PC and Documents to Go on my tablets, because it handles native MS Office format files without conversion, so I can simply copy documents back and forth (see file managers, above) and work on them in either environment. For plain text files, I use DroidEdit, a capable programmer's editor.

While this is not quite what you asked for, if you live in the USA, Weatherbug Elite is a weather app that includes an excellent weather map based on Google Maps and can also show webcam images from weather stations in their network. What I like most about it is its animated wallpaper that lets me have a continuously updated weather map as the background of my home screen.

I also really like DTG-GTD, a very powerful multilevel task organizer and list manager based on the "Getting Things Done" model. It is only in the alpha development stage, but has already attracted quite a devoted following. An outlining function is not yet implemented, but promised soon.

Finally, I would suggest getting at least one browser to supplement Chrome. I personally like Dolphin, but also sometimes use Opera Mobile or Ninesky. It is my experience that no one browser handles all sites equally well.

Definitely SoftMaker Office as mentioned above. Why?
1) You use LibreOffice at your desktop PC. TextMaker, the word processor from SoftMaker Office, is the only app to handle Open file format, you can't open your files with any other word processor. If you want to use your LibreOffice files with Android, TextMaker is the only option.
2) No other office suite has such a broad range of features, only the SoftMaker apps come close to deskop office suites, all others are just better viewers with a few editing options, but SoftMaker offers a "real" fully featured office suite.
They offer free trial versions, check it out and compare it to all poor alternatives as Kingsoft & Co. I tested them all, but no other app came close to the SoftMaker apps.