Oh, WOW! Making lists and shopping just got tons easier (and therefore simplified a portion of my life) since I found this app, Out of Milk Shopping List, which is available for Android and iPhone. It has so many features, I won't list them all, just the ones that I'm grooving on most right now:
First, the speech-to-text feature for shopping and to do lists is very quick and accurate, and such a time-saver for slow-as-molasses, texting-challenged people such as me. If you don't mind texting, you can do that too, (you strange little bird) ;-P
Next, is the built-in bar code scanner. Let me begin by saying I've tried at least three separate scanners for my smartphone, and none of them came close to working, no matter how still I held them, how focused I had the codes in view, or how long I held my breath. So, you can imagine my surprise when ~jaded me~ tapped the app's scanner on a bottle of Lipton Diet Green Citrus Tea. Before I could even line it up properly or focus it, the scanner had already scanned it and integrated it into my list! I proceeded to scan a ridiculous amount of items (like a crazed child with a new toy) from my kitchen, laundry area and even some a barcode on a My Little Pony box, and it was able to accurately record it all for me amazingly fast. Then, realizing I had just added so many items to my current shopping list, I had to move a BUNCH of stuff to the archived list section after playing with this new toy later--but, that was insanely easy, too!
Finally, I checked out the local grocery deals portion of this app after typing in the zip code I'd be shopping in, and got several different stores with loads of sale items listed alphabetically. There's just a plethora of helpful things this does that really helps me do my list-making and shopping stuff so much easier and more efficient...
Best of all, it's FREE!
If this app was a person, we'd so hang out together...
There are other features that this app offers that I haven't even delved into yet, so be sure to check it out. I would, but I NEED TO GO SCAN STUFF, because I CAN!!!!
You can find it on the Google Play store site, or just go to their website, here : http://www.outofmilk.com/ and have a deliriously fun time speaking and scanning random (oh, and useful) items into your own lists!!! :D
