LisT Online Manual - Introduction

LisT is a program to run on your PDA, organiser, smartphone or other small device, to organise your grocery shopping in a more efficient way.

• No more scrappy paper lists!
• No more going back to aisles you have already visited in the supermarket!
• No more standing in the supermarket, wondering if you needed potatoes or not!
• No more arriving home to discover you forgot the beer!

Before you go shopping, your PDA shows a list of everything you regularly buy. The list is sorted into sections according to where you keep things at home, so, for example, everything in your refrigerator might be sorted together. You then go through the list, ticking items you need (and, optionally, adding a quantity). Of course, you can add new items to the list anytime.

Once you have ticked everything you need, you select the shopping mall you intend to visit, and the list is resorted into the order you will find things in the mall. You can choose to only show things you have ticked in the list, to reduce clutter. You can also untick things as you buy them, so you know exactly what you have still to get. If the supermarket decides to reorganise its shelves, you can reorganise your list the same way easily using drag and drop.

LisT is written in Java using SuperWaba. It runs on any PDA which supports SuperWaba, including Palm, Samsung, Sony, Casio, Compaq, Dell, HP, Toshiba and Acer machines - for a full list, see the SuperWaba Supported Devices list. In addition, a faster version compiled with SuperWaba Jump is available for supported Palm OS devices.