ListPro (Custom Lists) type application?

[techguru]

For shopping list, I am using Our Groceries. I didn't use ListPro for shopping list though, I used HandyShopper.

Our Groceries is far from a perfect handyshopper replacement, but it is at least sufficient for now.

For simple Todo tracking, I have settled on LiveList. Again, far from a ListPro replacement, but it is quick and easy.

I am still using ListPro on my Netbook for complex list needs rather than using my phone.

Alan

 

[techguru]

I too have been trying to find a replacement for ListPro, and my findings pretty much match yours. One other I tried was Upvise, but the UI was pretty clunky. I really hope Illium decides to release an Android version. I found plenty of decent replacements for eWallet, but nothing touches the functionality of ListPro.

Alan

Could you please list your eWallet replacements? Thanks.


** Found it on another thread, thanks.

In case others are interested, I use Keepass. It imported my eWallet database, and at least if I stick with version 1.6 on my PC I can sort of keep my wallets synchronized (using SugarSync for file synchronization).

Alan

 

[pwjone1]

I too have been trying to find a replacement for ListPro, and my findings pretty much match yours. One other I tried was Upvise, but the UI was pretty clunky. I really hope Illium decides to release an Android version. I found plenty of decent replacements for eWallet, but nothing touches the functionality of ListPro.

Alan

Could you please list your eWallet replacements? Thanks.


** Found it on another thread, thanks.

See also the thread:

http://www.droidforums.net/forum/droid-applications/2206-wallet-app-3.html

for eWallet type discussion.

 

[tbever]

I use Astrid as a to-do/list keeper application. You might want to check it out. It does not do folders but does have tags and syncs with Remember the Milk which has a desktop widget for google calendar. It works for me.

For a wallet app I use Keeper (?eKeeper). It has similar functionality to ewallet which I used on PPC. It wirelessly syncs to the desktop app over wifi which is great, but the desktop app is about $29.00. The Android app itself is free though.

 

[jsh1120]

I've been using Note Everything Pro to replace the grocery list I had in listpro. It allows the creation of checklists that can be All, Need, or Done. That lets me move items from All to Need and when I pick them up they are Done. It won't replace listpro, but for my uses it works fine.

David

+1 on NoteEverything (Pro). The so-called "durable checklist" functionality included in the paid version is an excellent list manager for groceries (and other recurring supply lists) and the multilevel folder support appears to be what some other list manager apps on the Droid are lacking.

Lacks (as far as I can tell) some of the features of the more focused list managers but considering that it's primarily a notepad app with list functionality, it has a somewhat different focus.

Its major drawback, at least from my experience, is the capacity to create/edit/manage notes, lists, etc. from a website. I don't live exclusively on my phone and the creation of my family's grocery/pharmacy/Costco lists was a process that could have considerably eased by doing it on my computer keyboard. On the plus side, my suggestion to the developer was promptly answered with the comment that such an interface was being developed.

All in all, it's worth checking out in the context of this thread.

 

[MontyMo]

I use "Note Everything Pro"

Pros

Folders
Customizable notes (lists)
Import cvs files (and 7 other file types)
Export files
Many types of notes lists(notes)
My grocery shopping list has:

An alphabetic list of all items in the list with a check box
After I check an item it is moved to a "Need List"
When I go grocery shopping I refer to the "Need list"
As I put items in my shopping card I check items in the need list
They are then removed from the "need list" and placed in the "Done List"​

THis app has many, many great features

​

No cons found to date...

Monty

 

[MontyMo]

Its major drawback, at least from my experience, is the capacity to create/edit/manage notes, lists, etc. from a website.

This would be a VERY useful feature for Note Everything Pro!

Monty

 

[jsh1120]

I use "Note Everything Pro"

Pros

Folders
Customizable notes (lists)
Import cvs files (and 7 other file types)
Export files
Many types of notes lists(notes)
My grocery shopping list has:

An alphabetic list of all items in the list with a check box
After I check an item it is moved to a "Need List"
When I go grocery shopping I refer to the "Need list"
As I put items in my shopping card I check items in the need list
They are then removed from the "need list" and placed in the "Done List"​

THis app has many, many great features

​

No cons found to date...

Monty

Your experience mirrors mine. One other feature worth noting is the "paint note" (in addition to text, photo, gallery, and audible notes.) It's very useful for jotting down a phone number or an address for later reference without opening the keyboard.

 

[pwjone1]

Noodles - List Manager

This is a mini-review of Noodles List Manager ($1 in Android Marketplace) v1.2.0.


noodles - List Manager

I played with the Free version long enough to decide to get the paid version, $1 is cheap enough that you don't have to think about it all that long Noodles seems to be a good basic list manager.

It supports multiple lists, you can switch from one list to other by swiping across the list name at the top. You cross-off (check) an entry by a horizontal swipe on the item (to the right), and restore (uncheck) it by going the other way. Seems to be no clear the list type function. I did run into one bug on the Android, the standard opening the keyboard while in a text entry field causes it to get confused. It has a text (variable length) field, but that shows on the list, so not perfect. Items can have name, details, and priority, but that's it, items are not tailorable.


Pros:

• Relatively easy to Use
• The swipe input technique is kind of clever (but basically same as check-box)
• Does support one level of folders (multiple lists)
• Has Priority field (useful)
• Automatically sorts by priority
• Has purge function (delete checked/swiped)
• Priorities do show as colors (far right)

Cons:

• Does just one level of Folders for Lists (ListPro does multiple)
• No menu function to enable display of checked/unchecked items
• No way to clear all checkmarks at once (reset list, useful if you have a checklist or similar)
• List entries are very simplistic, just one text entry field, no way to edit or add fields or use a template, etc. (examples: Quantity, Price, Notes (text) field that shows only when item is in edit, etc.
• Doesn't seem to be a way to cause it alphabetically sort entries on the list, or folders
• Long entries tend to wrap and take up a lot of screen space
• Detail shows on the list screen (no notes field, in effect, that does not display

So I guess my net would be that Noodles is a good, simple, one level, one field type list manager. Nothing wrong with that, but it's not ListPro, and for that matter, LiveList (free) is probably slightly better.

 

[goskeet]

My alernatives

Oh yes, I miss my ListPro too.

I have found a couple obscure ones that are helping a lot, and a couple basics I don't see mentioned here.

Check out Hello Expense. I use it to track petty cash, track mileage, track my work hours. Very handy, and the developer recently expanded the memo field size to facilitate more diverse notes.
exports handy to csv via email

For tasky type lists CHECK OUT GTASKS the program is getting sharp these days, you will need to go to andappstore to download latest versions. This is a crucial program for all those checklists, and it syncs with google tasks.

I fumble with clumsy touchscreen spreadsheets on dataviz to track the few "lists" that actually need lots of fields.

Today I ditched Note Everything Pro for Note Me, which you should check out. export/import handily. great custom tagging system... lots more. note, I fumbled figuring how to export notes as individual text notes (you must uncheck the export as one text note box), and first check the notes you want to export as far as I can tell at this point. **I had some data loss in note everything too.

And I use a voice recorder widget from Rehearsal Assistant to input my notes as memos on the road, to transfer later to the programs above or desktop.

Many late night hours spent to offer you all this gem of a list IMHO. Hope you like them.

PS - I was googling for new ListPro options and found you all and had to chime in. I am actually on a Hero.

 

[GunnySpook]

+1

The Gunny

 

[christim]

I found Colornote early on. When I first got it there was only text lists. Now there are checklists too.

I like it because you can sort three ways:
by the order you created them, with the newest up top.
alphabetically
by color ...make your shopping lists all blue but your chores lists red
phone numbers and hyperlinks automatically tie the dialer or browser too
widget so you can leave a sticky on your desktop
menukey press lets you set up a reminder time/date.
menukey lets you share to email, texting, etc
no nested folders/lists.

I loaded this up, was happy enough, and never bothered trying anything else.

 

[Technoman]

ListManager seems to work fine for me, and has the ability to add items via VOICE. So far it is the best I have found.

 

[pwjone1]

gTasks (Google Tasks) Review

This is a mini-review of gTasks beta (free in Android Marketplace), v0.3.37m..

gTasks - beta

I have played with Google Tasks, the web based variant, and it's not bad as a pretty simple task manager. It comes with gmail, and I had a gmail account (actually, accounts), before Android came along, anyway, but every Android user is going to have a gmail account, and it seems then logical enough to think of using Google Tasks. I had actually put a bookmark on my base phone page, to get to Google Tasks through the browser, but that is a bit clunky, slow to come up, and always seems to reprompt for userid and password (even though I checked the Remember me box), and it seems to have problems finding everything, so despite being from Google and intended to work on mobile phones, not really in my book a viable alternative.

gTasks, which is an Android interface to Google Tasks, seems to actually address a lot of these shortcomings in the mobile/web interface. A previous append suggested that it had improved, and I'd say that's an accurate assessment. The current version is really not bad, ironically much better than Google's own. The outfit that puts gTasks out is listed as SSI, Web page:

Home of gTasks (Simple Seamless Integrated: gTasks)

email: [email protected]

and a discussion group at: gTasks | Google Groups

gTasks synchronizes with Google tasks, so that's a plus, don't have to worry about backup and so forth so much, can see and edit them on the PC, and that's kind of an advantage if you have to do bulk entry. And a task that is given a date will then show on the Google calendar, so the integration is pretty good there (at least, if you use Google calendar). You can create multiple task lists, so that allows some organization, and you can indent tasks under others, giving it a sort of main task/sub-task organization, which is nice. Now that, said, Google Tasks (and gTasks) are pretty crude as list managers go, there's no real priority (other than the date), no way to tailer the fields (you have a title and some text, that's it), none of the field reordering or edit operations offered in ListPro. gTasks does solve actually one pretty severe restriction in the base Google Tasks, it has a sort function (user order, Due date, or task order), so that's a definite plus (the way you get around it for Google Tasks is copy the tasks out, sort them in an editor or Excel or whatever, and then paste them into a new list -- cumbersome squared). And visually gTasks works pretty well, you can tailor size a bit, and the check box is pretty easy to touch to check or uncheck, it visually then shows a checkmark and crosses out the title, works nicely.


Pros:

• Relatively easy to Use
• Synchronizes with Google Tasks
• Has sort and other list order techniques
• Supports mulitple lists (but not really in a hierarchy or anything fancy)

Cons:

• Sort by Title seems to undo Google Task indents (flat sort, but going back to user order restores the indents)
• No Priorities or Item Colors, etc.
• No menu function to enable display of checked/unchecked items
• Clear Completed is apparently just one way
• Does just one level of Folders for Lists (ListPro does multiple)
• No way to clear all checkmarks at once (reset list, useful if you have a checklist or similar)
• List entries are very simplistic, just one text entry field, no way to edit or add fields or use a template, etc. (examples: Quantity, Price, Notes (text) field that shows only when item is in edit, etc.
• Couldn't figure out how to move items up and down on the task list (could do that on the PC)

In running tests for this review, gTasks seemed very stable, no FCs, worked as I would have expected (excepting the indent on sort thing).

So I guess my net would be that gTasks is a is a good, simple, two level, one field type list manager. Nothing wrong with that. It does sync up with Google Tasks, which is a very handy feature. But gTasks (and Google Tasks) in general, is not up to the functionality of ListPro, and for that matter, LiveList (free), Noodles, Astrid, etc. are all functionally somewhat better, with the exception of syncing with Google Tasks. If you use Google Tasks on a PC, then no question, get gTasks, it's better in some ways than the PC based variant (and certainly the Android web based phone variant).

 

[pwjone1]

ListManager seems to work fine for me, and has the ability to add items via VOICE. So far it is the best I have found.

Which List Manager? Seem to be at least 2::

• Noodles - List Manager
• Advanced List Manager

And other associated Apps that show up in the market place.

If it's noodles, then yes, I have to say that's good. Not sure it's the best, and it's certainly not ListPro. But I've not tried Advanced List Manager.