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Organize my shopping list by category or by store.
I love the shopping list idea but I would like to say "Buy milk from grocery" or "Buy hammer from Home Depot" then when I call in to get my shopping list while I am at the Grocery store I would just ask for "shopping at Grocery" and only get those items on my grocery shopping list.
I have multiple shopping lists in real life, not just one.
I have multiple shopping lists in real life, not just one.
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Inappropriate?Thanks for your input. We've had many requests for the ability to organize the shopping list by store and category. We are working on adding this to the product. I too am excited and can't wait to start using it.
I’m happy to hear your ideas.
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Inappropriate?There's some items where I'd like to specify a store (Safeway, Target, Home Depot), others where it's just a category of store (grocery, hardware, bookstore, etc), I'd like to be able to assign one or more categories to a store, so when I'm at a store, the list includes both items I can only get at that store, plus items that could be reasonably expected to be found at any store in that category (e.g. milk). -
Inappropriate?As mentioned before, we have had a lot of feedback about adding categories. I have added these votes to our list. We appreciate you taking the time to share with us!
I’m excited for what's to come!
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Inappropriate?Couldn't you just add the store as a Place and then when you are at that Place, those items move to the top of the list? Isn't that already a feature? -
Inappropriate?Dennis,
I thought it was available now as well but I guess not or I did something wrong. I have physically gone to two different grocery stores and created "Places" in reQall called Walmart and King Soopers (local Krogers store). When making my shopping list I would say, "Buy toothpaste at Walmart" and "Buy rice at King Soopers" and other items for both stores. When I got to King Soopers and brought up my shopping list all items for all stores appeared not just the King Soopers items. I was disappointed.
Have you been able to do this and get a list that brings up only those items specific to a given defined "Place"?
As a side note of great amazment I spoke "King Soopers" the first time and "king supers" appeared as text. I corrected the capitalization and spelling and from then on when I say "King Soopers" that is what appears on all subsequent messages. reQall learns! I am amazed and pleased.2 Comments
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Guys, I'm pretty sure reQall only categorises by Home and Work at the moment? I think they are promising location categorisation later on?
For the lovely lady from reQall, how about releasing some new features soon, rather than saving them up for a big-bang release? As a paying user I'd love to see cool new stuff trickle out so I can use it rather than wait months...... go on, buy those developers more caffeine! -
Perhaps the suggestion isn't clear in everyone's mind.
Yes, it's already easy to create a 'Place' that corresponds to a particular store, and even associate it with GPS co-ordinates. Yes, you can associate an item to purchase with a specific 'Place'.
The suggestion relates to items you could purchase at more than one place. Say I have two grocery stores and a drug store each set up as a 'Place'. I need to get milk, which I could get at any of them. Here's a situation where assigning to one 'Place' is too specific. If I had a way to say 'buy milk at a grocery store' that one item could appear on the shopping list for all three of the places, and I could mark 'done' whenever I visit one of them.
If a 'place' is a specific store, then being able to associate categories with places, and items with categories, allows you to be specific with items only available at one store, and be general when something can be found in any one of a category of stores. -
Inappropriate?Amen Rob! As a developer who knows these things supplying them with chocolate and other goodies is also an incentive to keep them coding longer and better there have to be scientific studies showing this to be true, right? This way there is no need for lunch or other breaks.
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Inappropriate?Good idea for shopping lists. Lack of this feature has led to me not (or rarely) using the GPS function.2 Comments Add a comment
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Assuming you're referring to PaulC's point I agree although ultimately I want to say buy milk and have reqall remind me when I'm at a store that sells it. So how do we do that? Categories such as supermarket, grocery? Reqall could consult a database of what those type of stores typically carry I guess. This would need taiiring because internationally stores have different names. Eg Drugstore is a US specific and Dairy is it's NZ equivalent! Could reqall learn somehow where we each buy milk? Eg I say buy milk at mrs. Finnegans, assign this as a place and Tick milk off before leaving the location? It would have to learn that sometimes I buy milk at
my local supermarket too and guess what? I shop at local supermarkets not just one! This stuff isn't impossible but would make reqall incredibly powerful, get huge press coverage, increase sales as I'm assuming this would be a Pro Plus service and keep us all happy. It's a lot of work and it would change people's lives. I'll bet more gps enabled mobile platforms would be sold too. One word of caution - reqall , please make sure this is internationalisable - we don't all live in the USA! -
I think having reQall try to automatically determine what categories a given 'Place' might fall into is doomed to failure. It's never going to be 100% right, and that's more frustrating than helpful. I'd be more happy if I could create my own categories (thereby addressing both cultural naming differences and personal preferences) and be able to assign one or more categories to a 'Place', and a single category to an item. In essence, a category could be used as a 'Meta-Place', which can be used to group 'Places' by 'things you could buy there', 'things you could do there', etc. E.g. some supermarkets have pharmacies, many do not. I might want to assign 'grocery' and 'pharmacy' to a given store.
I posted a related suggestion where Google Maps (or a similar POI database) could be used to find nearby locations of a given chain of stores. See: "One 'place', multiple locations - deduce automatically". The kind of info in POI databases is somewhat crude, and aimed at GPS navigation devices - but it is one way to get automatic categories. My preference would be to use that info to pre-populate the categories when a 'Place' is created, but then be able to freely edit it afterwards. That way it works OK with minimal user involvement, but if a user wants to invest the time, they can make it work exactly the way they want.
Besides Google Maps, geonames.org is a useful geocoding/POI resource, and it even integrates the GPS-encoded articles in Wikipedia. openstreetmap.org is interesting, too.
p.s. By the way, I'm English, but have lived in Silicon Valley for quite a while. So I guess I'm 'bi-cultural' ;) (maybe even tri-cultural, if geek culture counts :) -
Inappropriate?Rob, the features you suggest would indeed be great but a monumental developing effort. If I were developing it I would take advantage of the existing 'Place' feature using GPS. I go to 'Store X' and define it as such and do the same with 'Store Y' and 'Store Z'. This feature exists now. I say in reQall "Buy toothpaste at 'Store X'". Forget about the fact that toothpaste is actually available at Store X & Z. I made a decision to buy it at Store X when I input it into reQall. reQall now has the Place Strore X associated with my account. It also has a number of items for purchase associated with Store X other purchases with stores Y & Z also listed as Places in reQall. Therefore the only programing need at this time is to associate the Place Store X with the shopping list items labeled Store X. I go to store X and the shopping list only for items associated with that store appear. If I want to see the other items I can still do that but I want to first see only those items I have specifically associated with a given Place.
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Inappropriate?I'm not too keen with categories, for me the ideal would be to have Places and "Metaplaces". Places have no or 1 GPS coordinate associated with them, "Metaplaces" have more than one GPS coordinate associated with them.
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Inappropriate?I would take a slightly different solution in making Reqall "smarter" in regards organizing a shopping list and how it applies that to multiple locations.
Rather doing the work all upfront (assigning the shopping list item to a place/category), Reqall could learn where a I buy certain items by remembering the GPS loc as I check off the items. When I add those items again, Memory Jogger could offer them up whenever I went back to that location. And if I "Buy Milk" from multiple locations, it would ideally remember all those different locations.
This is not unlike the functionality of the app iNeedStuff. - http://www.pdascent.com/Site/iNeedStu...
I used it for quite some time and was quite pleased. I only stopped when I decided I need I could combine multiple apps (iNeedStuff, ToDo, etc.) with Reqall (which was much more proactive in helping me remember all things I was trying to track).
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Inappropriate?I have shared this entire post with our developers and reading through this I'm not sure that there are still questions that exist for me. However, for sake of my job let me touch on some of the high points.
I have added to our feature request list:
* allow Places to have more than 1 geo coordinates (this would allow you to enter more than 1 "Target" so you could say "buy towels at Target" and associate multiple geo cor. with said Place and then when you are at a "Target" any "Target" you have geo cords for then you would be able to see that list.
* we do not yet offer location based reminders. This is not because we do not want to, this is because Apple does not yet allow that. However, if you look to the Here and Now Screen you will be able to see all items due, here and now.
* recognition of other Places. Currently the only Places that are automatically recognized are "at Home" and "at Work." This idea is gaining in popularity on our list.
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Inappropriate?Jessi, I am not sure I understand your statement concerning location based reminders not being allowed by Apple. We don't need Apple help on this I don't think. I establish a Place called "Target" in reQall and I make a reminder in reQall "Buy towels at Target". You program reQall to associate the reminder with the Place. We don't need anything more elaborate at first.
Thank you for following this thread and keeping us posted.
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Inappropriate?Thanks Stan, I did get that!
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Inappropriate?Home and Work might be the only Places that are automatically recognized, but it's not difficult to enter in a new place. I have 11 or so in my list, all with GPS-based map locations attached. I simply drove to that location, selected Places, clicked the dropdown for my Places, clicked the Thumb tack with a + beside it, turned Use Location to ON, and entered the name of the place. And when I enter tasks, I use those locations. A few times, I have had to edit them manually, but they usually enter correctly.
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Inappropriate?I agree the isssue for me is that I use an iPhone and speak my messages so can't have reQall assign an item to a location it foedn't recognize without editing it manually. I guess home gets recognized and is then easily processed but if I wanted to say at Safeway then reQall would have to turn that into text and see if it found a text match in my list of places? That would be great....
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