Do you use any tech to make / share grocery lists?
2This Hiku gadget (http://hiku.us) is tempting me, but my wife says it'd probably just end up as more unused junk. I have to admit, I'm not sure I'm organized enough to scan a upc before throwing a thing away.
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My wife and I
use http://www.anylistapp.com/
ok, this looks good. Sharing has been our main annoyance. I'll try this.
I like the idea of Hiku but feel like it would only take me a week to lose it somewhere! I'm still a fan of Wunderlist, especially for the collaboration aspect.
Weirdly, one problem for me is that my current fridge has a cabinet front, so I actually don't have a good place to put magnetic things.
I shared app called "groceries" with Beckie but it's old and I think it was clunky - had some way to store lists on shared notes space though.
I'm kinda bummed that hiku doesn't make more sense, because it seems fun. (Assuming it is, as they say, far faster and more accurate than the red laser type apps.)
Any List got the wife approval. The only thing I don't like is that their bonus features are $10 / year. No reason for that to be subscription-based. But I can't find much use for the extras anyway, so I'll just ignore it.
I use the Keyring app - it holds all of my membership cards, tracks coupons and deals in stores I shop or by location and has a function for lists that works. I'm happy with it so far on Android.
http://www.keyringapp.com
Boyfriend and I use Evernote for grocery lists. He says I should also use Evernote for "important things." I'm not sure what's more important than Half and Half and Cheez-Its, though.
I sometimes go to Albertson's website and use the shopping list feature they have there. Since it is linked to the sale ad, it's very convenient. It's not groceries, but I also use the shopping list feature on BFAds to compile my Thanksgiving and Black Friday Scavenger Hunt.
tom thumb does something similar, you can add their app and then get coupons, see what's on sale and add store coupons to your account also
I use OneNote through FamilyRoom with my wife. Works great and we can take a picture of a coupon and add it to the item in the list.
Seconding Evernote.
I use ziplist. It has an iphone app and a website. That way I can quickly add stuff when I am at a keyboard and when my wife needs something to be added to the list, she can do it from her phone (yes, it requires a shared account but ...). You can scan UPCs from it and it has a decent database. Plus it is connected to a lot of recipe websites, so you can save a recipe to their recipe box and then add the recipe to your shopping list.
Another great feature I like is that I can rearrange the aisles of the store I use the most. That way bread comes after produce but before breakfast foods at my local Kroger.
We use scrap paper and a ball point pen. Hey, it's tech!
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I had no idea there were so many people struggling to write down their grocery lists or ask their SO to pick something up from the store.
It helps when you can't read your own writing and/or you(r spouse) is forgetful and you act immediately. :)
Grocery Shopping? Not anymore. That's why I got married.
I make my wife text it to me
Used to use Zenbe lists.. now we use Avocado app on iOS.
We were using Zenbe for awhile too. Can't remember why we stopped. Maybe sharing was tricky.
My wife and I use Grocery IQ, works pretty well.
I use Grocery IQ as well; my wife refuses to use an app for grocery lists and just goes with the pen and paper option.
We've tried, but it never seems to stick, so something must not be easy enough.
If you are in a blessed part of the country you can just use the Wegmans app. Phone, iStuff, computation machines. I'd guess other stores will fall in line. It also maintains your past receipts and allows you to carry purchases to the new list. Also linked to the recipe section of the site.
I use either pen/paper combo or the app "Out of Milk" on my HD+. IDK how much shareability there is to that app; doesn't matter to me since I don't need to share my lists with anyone else. It does have the sales ads of certain grocery stores on it too.
I've tried, but what I really want is an app where I tell it what I need and then it figures out where everything is in my local supermarket and calculates the most efficient path to get in, get it all, and get out, recalculating in real time for little old ladies who carefully somehow block three directions at once at the end of an aisle with their granny carts. And knows which cashiers are fastest even if their aisles look a little longer.
That's a tough one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travelling_salesman_problem
@llandar, It's helpful when you make your grocery list on the bus going to the grocery store, and also when you tend to lose pieces of paper.
We used Remember the Milk http://www.rememberthemilk.com/ but switched to One Note http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/onenote/ since it is already integrated with the Family Hub on our phones.