{"id":290171,"date":"2026-07-16T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/16\/my-tablet-was-gathering-dust-until-a-productivity-app-gave-it-another-lease-on-life\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T08:40:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T12:40:36","slug":"my-tablet-was-gathering-dust-until-a-productivity-app-gave-it-another-lease-on-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/16\/my-tablet-was-gathering-dust-until-a-productivity-app-gave-it-another-lease-on-life\/","title":{"rendered":"My tablet was gathering dust until a productivity app gave it another lease on life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/i-gave-my-tablet-a-second-lease-of-life-with-this-one-simple-app\/\">My tablet was gathering dust until a productivity app gave it another lease on life<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/i-gave-my-tablet-a-second-lease-of-life-with-this-one-simple-app\/\">https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/i-gave-my-tablet-a-second-lease-of-life-with-this-one-simple-app\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-07-16 08:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.androidpolice.com\">www.androidpolice.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t use my Android tablet as much as I should. Despite reporting on Android hardware for sites like Android Police, my tablet of choice is an iPad. I know, I know, it&#8217;s my only Apple device, I swear.<\/p>\n<p>I always like to have an Android tablet on the go for testing purposes, and at the moment it&#8217;s the Xiaomi Pad 8. But it spends a lot of time gathering dust when I&#8217;m not using it.<\/p>\n<p>Or it did. Recently I found another way to use it to solve a personal problem. For the last few weeks, the Xiaomi Pad has seen daily use as a second screen for my laptop.<\/p>\n<p>Plenty of Android Police writers have tried using a tablet instead of a computer.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve written about how replacing a Windows laptop with an Android tablet was painless, troubles that arose when ditching a laptop for a tablet, and how one writer replaced their desktop monitor with an Android slate.<\/p>\n<p>But I wanted to try something different; my slate wasn&#8217;t replacing a laptop, but adding to it.<\/p>\n<p>                    <span data-field=\"label\" class=\"article-card-label\">Related<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"display-card-title \">\n<p>\t\t\tI rescued my old tablet from a drawer, and now it&#8217;s my favorite piece of tech<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p class=\"display-card-excerpt\">Old tablets can still be useful for single-purpose tasks<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/i-gave-my-tablet-a-second-lease-of-life-with-this-one-simple-app\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My tablet was gathering dust until a productivity app gave it another lease on life&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":290172,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.anpoimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/wm\/2026\/07\/spacedesk-tablet-tablet-side.jpg?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[86,118],"class_list":["post-290171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android","tag-samsung","tag-xiaomi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290171"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":290173,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290171\/revisions\/290173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}