The iPhone Mom

Yadahome.com is a website that lets you manage your family life online. You can create To Do lists, grocery lists, and a shareable family calendar. You can keep an online journal, store photos, and save recipes and personal contacts information. There is also a social networking side to the site and a tie in to coupons.com for grocery savings. I haven’t tried out the website because my personal system, as hare-brained and scattered as it may seem to everyone else, is working for me. But Yadahome.com also has an iPhone app called Organizer: ToDo+Calendar+Lists, and that I have tried. The organizer app has three sections – Calendar, To Do List and Grocery Lists. I’ll break them down one at a time.

Calendar – This  is a basic calendar that can be viewed either a month or day at a time. It’s easy enough to enter in the names, dates and times of your events. You’re also able to input any specific details that you  need to remember. When you’re done and looking at the month calendar there will be a dot on the date with your event, it looks similar to the iPhone’s built in calendar. You can then tap on the date and tap on the event name to see the details. If you’re at the daily calendar then your event will show up in a list for that day.

To Do List – The To Do List portion of the app works with folders. You create folders and then within those folders you add your To Do items. The app comes with several folders already set up. There are the folders of “Due Today”, “Overdue” “All”, “Open” and “Completed”. You’ve also got “Family”, “Personal”, “Work” and “School”.  If you need something more specific you can create your own folders. When you add a task to a list you will name it, add any notes, mark the due date, it’s priority and what folder it belongs in. Now the task will show up in the appropriate folder, listed in order of priority. You can customize which folders show up by tapping on “Hide” near the top of the screen. Next to each one on the list is a button that says “Show”. Tap on that and it turns to “Hide”, hiding the folder from your main list. You can always get it back by tapping “Hide” and switching back to “Show”. (As long as a folder has items in it you won’t be able to hide it.) Your “Due Today” and “Overdue” items are also accessible from the main YadaHome screen. There are two buttons at the bottom that will take you directly to those lists. 

Grocery List – The Grocery List part of the app is very basic. You create  a list and then add in items one at a time. You can only add in the name of an item, not a quantity, aisle location or price. When you are shopping off your list you’ll need to tap on the item to mark it off the list.

Organizer:ToDo+Calendar+List isn’t bad for a free app and it’s got some features that would probably work for me. Out of the app’s three parts the one that I personally would use is the To Do Lists. For me, the Grocery List is too basic and I don’t want to replace my iPhone calendar because it syncs up to Google calendar and I automatically get everyone’s schedules, without a membership fee. I’m going to stick with what I’m already using but if you haven’t found an organizational/calendar system that works for you there’s no better starting place than a free app.

Price when Reviewed: Free

Seller: Yadahome.com, LLC