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Finger Friendly Financial Program

Does anyone know a good finger friendly financial program, i have tried a few but all require the use of a stylus

I'd be interested in this too.
I've been meaning to make my own for ages but not got around to it. ATM I'm using a simple spreadsheet in Excel with a few sheets for different categories cos you can simply pinch and zoom so it's quite finger friendly.

Specs
How about some specifications regarding what would be required in such an application.
Could possibly be an interesting project to start....

For me a program would:
-Record amount of money coming in each month
-Record all expenditure with date, spend category
-Summary of expenditure by week/month/year/category
-Categories to include misc/transport/entertainment/food/bills/investments/total
All with nice finger friendly spinners and big fat buttons that are nice to use on the HD2.
I added an excel spread sheet that I use currently. I just rename it every month. This one doesn't have a way of recording how much money is coming in.

very interested her as well. Here are a few i found from a google search and have tried NONE yet. Just putting these here as starting point. Maybe we can try them and see if they are finger friendly. Doesn't look like some are but some you cant tell.
Budget Diary
http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-budget-diary-freeware-1-0.html
Hand Wallet
http://www.handwallet.com/csl/HomeFinance.asp
Pocket Keeper
http://store.handango.com/ampp/stor...81&sectionId=6002&catalog=110&topSectionId=-1
Lyma Power Budget (Maybe finger Friendly)
http://handheld.softpedia.com/get/Business/Finance/Lyma-Power-Budget-69396.shtml
Budget Manager Delux
http://www.clickapps.com/moreinfo.htm?pid=19071&section=PPC&r=dway
SPB Finance
http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/products/finance/

mallman said:
Budget Diary
http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-budget-diary-freeware-1-0.html
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Just installed this one.
It's ok but very basic. Pretty finger friendly but there are bugs. When I open up a date selector is MASSIVE and doesn't fit on the screen with no way of scrolling.
No way of entering recurring things like rent, salary etc
Can't add new categories so you've only got All, Expense & Income.

i jsut tried this one
Lyma Power Budget (Maybe finger Friendly)
http://handheld.softpedia.com/get/Bu...et-69396.shtml
it has TONS of potential. the only thing i see wrong is some text is kinda cut off. can you give it a try and see if you are getting what i am getting in my screenshots? I also added some screens to show its wroking great in other areas. I am almost inclined to overlook the text issue in the overview Wow this one is pretty damn nice!!

You're right, that was in nice but the same problem occurs one mine.
The desktop version looks nice too and allows you to sync with the phone.
I've emails them about the problem so maybe they'll fix it?

chimpsinties said:
You're right, that was in nice but the same problem occurs one mine.
The desktop version looks nice too and allows you to sync with the phone.
I've emails them about the problem so maybe they'll fix it?
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i set up all my expenses on the device the synced it back to the desktop. This is actually very very nice. They cut off text isnt enough for me to skip it , i am going to go with this. When they respond please update this and let me know what they say. They will get 2 customers here if they can work it out i think
check your PM's in a minute, about to send you something

mallman said:
Lyma Power Budget (Maybe finger Friendly)
http://handheld.softpedia.com/get/Business/Finance/Lyma-Power-Budget-69396.shtml
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Just to warn you all the Avast flagged this .exe as containing a trojan on my home PC. However McAffee didn't flag it at work
Maybe you should be careful when downloading it.

savvase said:
Does anyone know a good finger friendly financial program, i have tried a few but all require the use of a stylus
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Mate check this link for money goes away. I'm using that program and its perfect for hd2.
http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-moneygoesaway-v3-0.html
Winsomnia

There's also this free one here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=416282
not sure if it's super finger friendly up it's updated and free.

Got this message from the devs
Dear Matt,
Sorry for the delay in responding.
Thank you for the screenshot, we really appreciate it.
Unfortunately we have not yet updated the application to support Windows Mobile 6.5 or the new device resolution.
We are hoping to have this completed in the next few weeks.
We will email you when the update is available if you like.
Kindest Regards,
Lyma Design.
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Easy expense works fine. Simple and as it say easy. finger friendly to certain extent, not much eye candy, but does what it is made for. Export function limited, but ok.

I'm currently working on a finance app that includes all of the functionalties mentioned in this thread. Also, another cool function about this app is that it sums up all of the entries on the same date/merchant/category/payment depends on that sorting is selected instead of the just total amount. The app also supports logging of multiple periods. For example, if you go on a business trip, you can start a new period just for this business trip as it doesn't belong in the daily expenses/revenues. Once the business trip is done, you can save it and resume your daily expenses/revenues period.
The app supports storing your receipt when you create a new expense (giving your device can take picture)
I'm still working on this app as there are a few functionalities that i would like to add before releasing.

Here are more pics

and even more pics

Please post soon... I've been looking for a finance app forever like this... Keep us all posted... do you have a beta cab to mess with?
Craig

cpeacha said:
Please post soon... I've been looking for a finance app forever like this... Keep us all posted... do you have a beta cab to mess with?
Craig
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Right now i don't have any beta cab for testing yet as i'm just doing self testing. Once it's stable and has all of the functionalities that i wanted to implement, i will release a test version.

Looking for GTD/TODO app

I'm looking for an app to making TODO lists compatible with quite famous David Allen's GTD system. Do you know any? Something like Things from iPhone would be great.
I checked MyLifeOrganized and Pocket Informant 9.1. The first one has old-fashioned(...WM 2k3?), not finger friendly interface. The second one is slow(on my Samsung i780) and also has a bit uncomfortable interface(too many features, and no possibility to switch them off).
I would like to apologize for my, probably poor, English, I hope you could understand it.
Thank you in advance.

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Hi. I am in search of a GTD app for my
HTC Touch Pro 2.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=5593086

monowalker said:
I'm looking for an app to making TODO lists compatible with quite famous David Allen's GTD system. Do you know any? Something like Things from iPhone would be great.
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monowalker,
Take a look in Task2Gather, by Vito Technology, at vitotechnology.com/windowsmobile-task2gather.html
"One place for all your to-do lists on your Windows Mobile! Task2Gather is your personal to-do list and your collaborative tool for your business. What is unique about Task2Gather? You can share your projects, distribute actions to employees or family members and keep track of their progress. You can manage tasks depending on scale of importance and deadlines. For a simpler use you can just remind yourself of your things to do for the day from buying bread to finish your big presentation at work.
Even if your family members, friends, or colleagues don't have Windows Mobile device, they can work with you from a desktop PC, Mac or even iPhone. The idea of updating your shopping list while you are in the shop will be to your wife's liking."​
It looks like a good solution for me.
It's finger-friendly and cheap: $ 0,99.
Regards
Julio Rodrigues

[REQ] Yelp app

With the influx of US-TM HD2 owners coming up soon, one of the things I think they might ask for is a Yelp application. I'm guessing this because I wish I had one! It seems every other mobile OS besides Symbian has a native app, but we're stuck with using the mobile site! We don't want to be associated with those Nokia people do we?
If you aren't familiar with Yelp, it's a review site for pretty much any business you can think of - very popular for restaurants, bars, etc. I know people in the US use it a lot. Yelp has a UK/Canada presence as well, not sure how popular it is.
As mentioned, we can currently go to m.yelp.com and search, but it's not ideal since you have to type in your location, type in what you're looking for, and almost makes you not want to use it.
If you get the Yelp app for iPhone, webOS, Android, BB, etc., it'll use your phone's 'network triangulation' or GPS to automatically show you what's around you. Of course, once you have that, you can filter by category (restaurant, shopping, etc.), and sort by rating (and other various features.)
If you click on an item of interest, you can read the reviews, get details on the store (location, hours, etc.), and if the app is developed enough - write reviews, post pictures, and be a contributing member of the site.
Yelp has an API that seems pretty easy and robust, where requests are passed along like so
Code:
Sample Request:
[url]http://api.yelp.com/business_review_search?term=yelp&lat=37.788022&long=-122.399797&radius=10&limit=5&ywsid=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX[/url]
And you get a crapload of data back, all nicely formatted and easy to handle.
More info here: http://www.yelp.com/developers
TBH, I would try and code it myself, but I'd only be able to create a backend, maybe (never coded for WM before.) The GUI is the most important part since a lot of the heavy lifting is done with the API (otherwise, we'd have to scrape and... ugh.)
I'm sure I'm not the only one that would be interested in such an app, and I'm willing to pay for it. I'll start a bounty of $20 for anyone interested in developing it! All I ask for release is a touch-friendly Yelp reader that transmits current location. Further yelp-contributing features can be developed later @devs discretion.

Maybe Aloqa could help?
Hi Mazzarin,
I am using Aloqa, by default it shows Cafes, Restaurants, "what's hot", Sights, Bars and Cubs, Movies, Wikipedia, Fashion and last.fm.
You can add other channels or create your own.
All the best,
Peter

Aloqa and Yelp
Aloqa has a Yelp channel as well... but...
I would LOVE to have Yelp... +1
I will also put in $10 bounty for this.

p_fr1968: Thanks for the heads up. I'm downloading it now veeerrry slowly. I looked up the app on Marketplace and it seems to have people that either love it or absolutely hate it so lets see!
taimoorhusain: I think I convinced a dev to do it, hopefully we'll see a release soon!

Only had a very quick look at this, shouldn't be too muh hassle writing an app for this, I'd have to dev it for windows then port it WM (as I'm new to the 3.5 cf so don't know what it can and more importantly can't do)

Tried aloqa... it works okay. Seems buggy, doesn't have kinetic scrolling, and only does GPS OR GSM location, not both. I'll write the devs with my thoughts and maybe they'll fix it up! But it DOES have Yelp!
djingonthenet - That would be cool if you could do it, but like I mentioned in the above post, a dev who already has a running app has stated he'll do it. More competition or something I guess?!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=619329
^Next2Me is the app.

mazzarin said:
Tried aloqa... it works okay. Seems buggy, doesn't have kinetic scrolling, and only does GPS OR GSM location, not both. I'll write the devs with my thoughts and maybe they'll fix it up! But it DOES have Yelp!
djingonthenet - That would be cool if you could do it, but like I mentioned in the above post, a dev who already has a running app has stated he'll do it. More competition or something I guess?!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=619329
^Next2Me is the app.
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well I'll have a look anyway, maybe knock up a basic version then see how it goes from there. is the next2me app just for USA locs or does it work in the UK as well?

At the moment, next2me uses google local so... pretty much everywhere.
Re: Aloqa, got a response back really quick:
Aloqa Feedback said:
We are working on a full featured version of Aloqa for WinMo that should have all the features you mention and more, including those available today exclusively on Aloqa for Android. We hope to launch it in 6 - 8 weeks, so please stay tuned!
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mazzarin said:
With the influx of US-TM HD2 owners coming up soon, one of the things I think they might ask for is a Yelp application. I'm guessing this because I wish I had one!
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Did you ever find a Yelp one? I know you mentioned the developer of Next2Me incorporating it into that (nice) app; but it doesn't seem to have happened.
I find Aloqa's interface a bit scruffy. I noticed there's an app for Qype in the uk app store (Qype's like Yelp but better for Uk/Europe; bit sketchy for U.S.) but I still can't find anything for Yelp in the U.S. or otherwise
Does the Yelp iphone app let you leave your own reviews (like Qype does)? I had a quick look at the Yelp API but it looks like it's 'read-only'. I think that's half the fun being able to tell people when your restaurant food arrived cold!
James.

Never found one unfortunately. Not sure about the capabilities of the iPhone app, but I'd be happy to get read-only access still!

Yeah me too. Thanks for letting me know. Fingers crossed the big organisations start writing their apps for at least WP7.
I'll email the author of the winmo Qype app (Magic Guidebook) and see if he's willing to add in Yelp.

Awesome, let me know how it goes.

Really Disappointed by Marketplace

After all the great things I've heard about iPhone's marketplace, I was going to get one until AT&T did their little data plan switch.
Then I got the EVO, hoping because Android was a developing market and there were thousands and thousands of apps, it would compare to iPhone's.
Not even close. I'm scrolling through, trying to find cool apps, and most of them seem to be utility apps or some such stuff. Most of the reviews on these things seem to indicate the apps are buggy or the developer has stopped support.
Where are all the cool apps like iPhone has? Are they in the paid section? Even those seem to be buggy from what I'm reading in the User Comments sections. How come iPhone gets great voice to text support (I know people who use this function a lot) and Android doesn't? Corporations are putting out iPhone apps left and right and Android has practically nothing. And the ones they ARE putting out, again, seem buggy.
Seems like a great waste to me.
Someone please clue me in and show me what I've been missing.

The AppStore has an 18 month head start on the Android Market, not to mention there are like 5 times the number of iPod/iPhones then Android devices right now. So it makes since that developers have up to this point been putting a majority of their time and resources into the AppStore. But, with 160k+ Android activations a day and growing Android WILL take over iPhones at some point in the future and we'll really begin to see a ton of developer support as the platform continues to quickly grow.

Ya what he ^ said. Android will eventually be big enough where developers cannot ignore the potential customers. As long as google doesn't fragment the market too much, you should see the big developers start dual releasing software (similar to xbox and ps3).

great voice to text supprt, you know thats google's software tht does that on the iphone
I got a apple fanboy at work and he is always saying my market sucks and I ask him to show me some of his life changing apps, and he has nothing cool

norkoastal said:
Ya what he ^ said. Android will eventually be big enough where developers cannot ignore the potential customers. As long as google doesn't fragment the market too much, you should see the big developers start dual releasing software (similar to xbox and ps3).
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maybe is apple drops that part of EULA where an apple developer must be only dedicated to apple development or be dropped from the app store, much like our facebook app is far behind the apple one. the new team has to catch up

nbakid2000 said:
After all the great things I've heard about iPhone's marketplace, I was going to get one until AT&T did their little data plan switch.
Then I got the EVO, hoping because Android was a developing market and there were thousands and thousands of apps, it would compare to iPhone's.
Not even close. I'm scrolling through, trying to find cool apps, and most of them seem to be utility apps or some such stuff. Most of the reviews on these things seem to indicate the apps are buggy or the developer has stopped support.
Where are all the cool apps like iPhone has? Are they in the paid section? Even those seem to be buggy from what I'm reading in the User Comments sections. How come iPhone gets great voice to text support (I know people who use this function a lot) and Android doesn't? Corporations are putting out iPhone apps left and right and Android has practically nothing. And the ones they ARE putting out, again, seem buggy.
Seems like a great waste to me.
Someone please clue me in and show me what I've been missing.
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What are you looking for in the Market? What do you want an App to do for you? You cannot just get into to the Market to 'look for cool apps'. It will be very helpful if you narrow your search, that way you can get the help you want. The Android Market cannot be blamed for corporations that put out sub-par or buggy apps. Take your issues up with their developers.
If you depend solely on users comments to make your decision about an app, you might end up not trying any. Since Android phones have varied models and specifications there are bound to be different experiences from different users. Even for users with the same device, the App may appear a bit buggy because of the modifications they have made to their phones.
There are different communities of users that review Apps and offer feedback that may be useful. AppBrain is a good one to try. Good luck.

I try not to read too much into user comments because some of the people either dont know how to use the app or are trying to use a brand new app on an outdated android phone/os

BrianDigital; said:
I got a apple fanboy at work and he is always saying my market sucks and I ask him to show me some of his life changing apps, and he has nothing cool
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Cause there is nothing that cool lol. I've been using AppStore for 2 years going now and still use it with my iPad. To me, the only thing the AppStore does better are the games. That's expected because they have been out longer. I have yet to try any android games so I could be wrong. Most of appstore apps are gimmicks and a waste of space. They do have a good selection of very good programs, as does the android store. Android store also has more free programs that are better I've noticed. Even the great programs that cost money are cheap. The biggest thing is that you can refund within 24 hours on the android store.
This is a personal preference. I like good useful programs where I wont delete it 5 mins later. Now I think about it, most of the apps I used on the iphone and iPad now are from Cydia.

what is a "cool app" for you? once you can define it as a boolean string you'll be all set.
until then its not unlike the iphone store...tens of thousands of apps. of that a huge number are redundant and or outdated. a good chunk are crap or useless. that leaves a bunch of needles in the haystack.
1) try a site like appbrain.com or apps.androidtapp.com (they may provide better search options)
2) do some google searches for "top EVO apps" or "Best Android apps" etc. that helped me quite a bit.
what is cool to one person is irrelevant crap to another.

DraginMagik said:
what is a "cool app" for you? once you can define it as a boolean string you'll be all set.
what is cool to one person is irrelevant crap to another.
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exactly. sounds like you just wanna **** around on your phone to me. I AM T-PAIN!!!!!!!!!

Well you can always check out the "cool app" thread in this same section that might help a little btw

brown14you said:
What are you looking for in the Market? What do you want an App to do for you? You cannot just get into to the Market to 'look for cool apps'. It will be very helpful if you narrow your search, that way you can get the help you want. The Android Market cannot be blamed for corporations that put out sub-par or buggy apps. Take your issues up with their developers.
If you depend solely on users comments to make your decision about an app, you might end up not trying any. Since Android phones have varied models and specifications there are bound to be different experiences from different users. Even for users with the same device, the App may appear a bit buggy because of the modifications they have made to their phones.
There are different communities of users that review Apps and offer feedback that may be useful. AppBrain is a good one to try. Good luck.
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I never blamed Android for the lack of apps situation. Where did I do that? I said I was disappointed with the Marketplace. At no time did I say, "I'm upset with Android and Google for not having any cool apps."
What do I want in apps? I dunno. I've never owned an iPhone so I'm not sure exactly what's out there....except I've heard that EVERYTHING is out there.
A couple of things missing off the top of my head:
Kevin's Smith app
Redbox
Blockbuster
The rest, I guess, is just cool stuff...whatever that may be. How about some nice apps for alcoholic beverages? The ones I've found (from the user reviews) don't seem that great. Again, I haven't tried them but if most people say an app isn't very good, I tend to believe it.
How about an app for cooking recipes? How about a great music player (which I haven't found yet, but MixZing seems to be pretty decent)? How about an app that compares prices?
Shazam (a music program) is supposed to be on Android. It's not. It looks like they pulled it, even though their web site advertises it.
The thing is, I don't know what app I need until I see it. I've never experienced it, so I don't know what I'm missing. *shrug* I just know I must be missing SOMEthing, based on everything I've ever heard or read about Apple's store.
On the subject of voice to text...what's a good app for that? Why can I not get something up to par with what iPhone has? Or can I?

There is a redbox app. Google shopper would be good for prices i think. Blockbuster is about to go out of business anyway lol. Shazam is definitely there because i just searched and it showed up. vlingo voice is a good voice to text even though android has that pretty much built in already. The music player that comes with the evo is good enough for me so idk about the others. Whats the kevin smith app?

I'd like to know where the free Redbox app came from. It wasn't there on my device a while ago. I just downloaded it.
Shazam is now showing up for me and I've done multiple searches over the past day for this thing. It's downloading as well.
The Kevin Smith app is found here: http://www.denvog.com/iphone/KevinSmith/index.html

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I'd like to know where the free Redbox app came from. It wasn't there on my device a while ago. I just downloaded it.
Shazam is now showing up for me and I've done multiple searches over the past day for this thing. It's downloading as well.
The Kevin Smith app is found here: http://www.denvog.com/iphone/KevinSmith/index.html
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shazam has been there since last year or longer because i bought the hero when it came out last october and had shazam. just give it time. the "cool" apps will show up

Not sure what you mean by voice to text app
Maybe I am misunderstanding what you are asking. Voice to text is part of the android 2.1 operating system. When you hit the microphone it will put text into whatever you are using such as an e-mail or a text message. There is no need for an app for it as it is built into the operating system

Voice to text? Already supported out of the box.
However, you can get Vlingo from the marketplace. It costs quite a bit, but if you're a dedicated voice user, it can be good for you.
You have to look around. Google is your friend.
What do you want? Cool games?
Hungry Shark, Raging Thunder II, Exzeus Arcade, Slimeball Speedway, Tiki Towers, Caligo Chaser, and Gameboid are just some I can think of off the top of my head. Gameboid will multiply those games because of ROMS.
A PSx emulator is in the works by the same developer.
Google's apps themselves impressed a lot of people that I showed my phone to.
Google Sky Map, Google Goggles, Google Earth, Google Maps, etc.
Other free apps that are top knotch:
Pandora, Facebook, Twitter, Shazam, Barcode Scanner, LED Light, Handcent SMS, TV.com (awesome cbs shows right there!).
Ringdroid (make ringtones ON YOUR PHONE), QIK video chat, Fring (for skype).
There are also apps where you can download backgrounds and ringtones from a wide variety.
So... just look around. Google helps.
And lastly, a lot of developers are looking into developing for Android. With all the new Android phones and Android users, things are working out well for its marketplace. For example, with the release of the HTC Evo... former palm pre, blackberry, and winmo users came. Hardly any people moved from android to android in that case.

Pretty much all of those apps you listed I have installed on my Evo via the Market.

patelkedar91 started a great list but here's a list of my favorite apps
acv - comic viewing app if you have downloaded comics(reads cbr files!)
doubletwist - media app that plays music and video, also has a matching desktop client for syncing your android phone, much like itunes to the iphone
epicurious - recipe app
fxcamera - camera app that has some awesome built in effects
layar - augmented reality app that shows points of interest through the camera
urbanspoon - can't decide on where to eat? just set preferences and shake to get a restaurant
Photoshop.com Mobile - basic photo editing app
transdroid - app to control torrent clients from your phone, including adding torrents
zombie, run! - one of the funnest apps on my phone, uses gps location to simulate a zombie apocalypse. shows zombies as red dots and you have to avoid them and make it to a location you set, makes biking to school a lot more interesting
there's a lot more, keep looking and lurk these forums like crazy. good "cool" apps are recommended here a lot

I don't even understand the point of this post. You didn't have an iPhone, but just 'hear' that it had it lots of cool apps. Then come to Android just looking for random 'cool' apps but can't articulate what you are looking for. Sure, the iPhone had 65 different fart apps, so it has an advantage there.
I had the iPhone 3G, then 3GS, then went to the Droid and now the EVO. I don't have a ton of apps, but I use quite a few. When I moved to the Droid in November, there were only two apps that I had with the iPhone that weren't available on the Android Market; SlingPlayer and Alarm.com. Both of those have since been released on the Market too.
Shazam has been available the whole time except for some reason that it disappeared a week or so ago. Music player? Well, Android has one built in and the EVO has HTC's version. On the Market, there is Mixzing and DoubleTwist. Blockbuster? Who friggin cares. Blockbuster will be out of business before long and Netflix is better anyway. The Netflix app is coming soon to Android.
I will admit that the games were a bit better on the iPhone, but outside of that I don't miss anything about the iPhone or the App Store.

Diary App for Tab

Has anyone started to use a Daily Dairy on their Tab?
As a professional I make a lot of hourly/daily notes, take photo's and voice notes. As such now I have a Tab I would like to utilize the hardware and use it's multimedia tools to help run my daily dairy.
I have tried doing this using a calendar but it interferes with my day-to-day running and items such as photo's and voice notes is basically a non-starter.
Any recommendations guys?

Beards said:
Any recommendations guys?
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Have you looked at UM Diary? Not tried it in anger, but it looks pretty good on the Tab.
Regards,
Dave

"Note Everything" by SoftXPerience may be an alternative, depending on how you like your interface. The free version only gets you text, voice, and fingerpainting notes, but the full version also gets you photo notes, checklists, and encryption.

I've also heard good things about Evernote.
There seems to be a lot of option with that one...

Thanks Guys... Couldn't reply earlier, xda-devs was running at overcapacity.
I tried UM Diary last week but had issues with the widgets.
I did like the way it showed the diary in a calendar but it felt disjointed.
Note Everything seems to have things happening all over the place but I'll look into it.
Evernote is a tool that looks like it has too much to offer in what I am looking for but appreciate as above the ideas.
I liked the simplicity of Diary on the SGS but sadly it did not save the notes for backup, did not allow voice notes nor did it offer photo additions.
I suppose what I am seeking is something simple to load, look at and use like the SGS's Diary which can take my notes and thoughts be that written spoken or photographed and have them displayed in a date fashion with a good search tool.
Then again... maybe I have taken away any form of simplicity.

I'm a huge fan of Evernote, I typically use it just to jot down random thoughts or grocery lists, but the tagging feature makes all the difference in the world. It's free, give it a couple days and see if it grows on you. I spent a good month testing note/diary programs and couldn't find anything else even close (with a professional looking interface and such). I doubt I'll ever try anything else.

You are the second user to recommend Evernote.
Can't help but feel it's overkill in what I am looking for.
I don't need any of the tools it offers.
I've come across 'Diaro - diary writing' which is straight to the point, allows unlimited photo's (unlike UM Diary which only allows 2), has an excellent search and you can add all manner of notes ~ be that written, photos, videos, sound, etc.
I'm not totally sold on it though, hence my continued search.
I'll have another look at Evernote.