Thursday, January 28, 2010

Grocery List

Grocery List is an Android application that remembers where your commonly bought items are located in the grocery stores in which you frequently shop. This allows you to sort your list based on the order of the aisles in the store, making your shopping trip quicker and more efficient.

The problem it solves is simple: When I went grocery shopping with a paper list, I would write the items down in the order I thought of them, which did not correlate to the order they were in the store. This led to one of two scenarios: a) I had to walk back and forth across the store as I got the items in the order they were on the list, or b) I tried to sort the list in my head, which led to missed items and a lot of time spent standing in the middle of the aisle studying the list, especially when I couldn't remember exactly where something was.

The Grocery List solves this problem by allowing you to teach it where your items are located in the store. You can set up layouts for multiple stores in case you go shopping at different places. Each time you buy an item off your list, you can let the Grocery List know in which aisle that store was located. Next time you need that item, it will remember any items you've bought before and sort them by their location. After only a few shopping trips, most of your most commonly bought items will be remembered, and you can even guess the locations to get a rough sorting for your first few trips.

Grocery List Beta is available for free on the Android Market. Please use the following form to report any bugs:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dHpJc0xQZ0pnOXc4X1o5ci1UX1RqV1E6MA

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