5 Great
Ways To Keep Track Of Your Stuff
Where’s
that package? Did I take my pill? I can’t find Grandpa! These apps can help.
Don’t
get bogged down trying to manually juggle all the facets of your life. There
are plenty of good apps you can use to keep track of stuff, with just a little
bit of effort on your part.
1. Track Your Packages
You
could keep track of 17 different "Your package has shipped!" emails
like a true sucker, or you could do next to nothing. I’m an American, so I
choose the latter. Slice (Android, iOS) hooks into your email system to recognize
shipment emails and automatically track your packages for you. You’ll get
notifications about when items arrive, but the app goes a few steps further by
offering product recall updates, tracking your spending habits, and includes a
barcode scanner you can use to track items you send back.
2. Coordinate Who’s Buying What At The
Grocery Store
Listonic (Android, iOS) is a simple shopping list that you can
share with your snookums so the two of you don’t double up on SkinnyPop. When
items are added and checked off your list, they’re synced with anyone else who
has access, and items can be sorted by store aisle so you can blast through
Whole Foods at 5 p.m. with the steely determination of a city dweller who needs
to get home early to snag a decent parking spot.
Because
that Lipitor’s not going to take itself, there’s Dosecast (Android, iOS). You can set the app to remind you to take your
medicine at recurring times, with alarm-like snooze features if you need to
postpone. The app sports customizable dosage information as well so you don’t
take too much or too little of your medicine.
So
your family wants to wander off for a bit, huh? Good! Maybe you can have five
minutes to yourself. Glympse (Android, iOS) lets you and your loved ones set up
timed-based location tracking that each of you can see on a map. You can send
messages to each other if you’re running late, and map watchers don’t need to
actually have the app installed if they just want to keep an eye on everyone.
It’s
hard to eat healthy, especially when lots of "healthy" food might
contain otherwise unhealthy ingredients. Fooducate (Android, iOS) lets you barcode-scan items before you eat
them and returns a letter grade based on calories, excessive sugar, trans fats,
and a slew of other additives. Low-scoring foods are accompanied by
better-for-you alternatives, too.
Try
Hack.
(Web) to connect with your team in a disposable chat room.
Setup takes seconds, and your conversation disappears once you’re done.
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