Jeff Miller's Big Idea Creativity seeking form

A shopping list can make the shopping experience more beneficial:

Brute force solutions

• Paper
  • Franklin Covey Shopping List/Meal Planner form
  • Notepad

Advanced solutions

• Spreadsheet
• Word processor (e.g., Microsoft Word)
  • Multipage?
• Database
  • Access
  • SQL Server??!! (overkill??!!)
  • MySQL

Special Software

Some shopping lists include the following features:

• Meal planning with recipes and ingredient lists
• Sorting by location of the item in the store to make the trip through the store take less time

Some features I'd like to see in a software package include:

• Product need scheduling - tell me when I'm about to run out of something!

Free Open Source Solutions

TBD - See SourceForge and FreshMeat?

Considerations for Success

• How many pages?
  • More pages means more to manage in the store.
• Print size
  • Some people hate small print!