Welcome to ONDA LIST: Start Here
Memory Aids for Living
ONDA LIST helps people remember what matters — from groceries to faces — with simple tools anyone can use.
Basic Elements:
1) Stores: where you shop:
You buy different types of products at different stores. ONDA LIST responds to the way you shop.
ONDA LIST ships with a few stores, including an imaginary store, Acme Co, so everything works right away. These are not endorsements, just examples. You can add ANY store you want —Big Box Store or an Online store.
2) Departments:
ONDA LIST ships with a few grocery departments to establish a pattern. A department is nothing more than a “basket” of things: physical things, ideas - a flash of insight, to-do list items, things you want to forget… Yes, those are things too, and you could put them in “Shadows” (a chiclet).
A requirement in ONDA LIST is that everything must be in a department. If you haven’t assigned an item to a department, it will be assigned to the “catchall” department, which is like a junk drawer in your kitchen.
Products:
ONDA LIST ships with about 160 products. 70 of those are produce items, and the rest are miscellaneous items in different departments. ONDA LIST is your private repository. Adding products, ideas, punchlines, restaurants, or whatever makes every ONDA LIST unique to the owner.
Chiclets:
Chiclets are also like a basket, similar to tags, but have a graphic (image) identifier. You can create your own chiclets and create a collection of anything.
Tags:
Tags are like a basket of items, and the tag label describes the contents: recipes, a list of things to take on a trip, a checklist to do every day, every week, colors, smells…. Anything.
Faces & Places:
Faces & Places are two related collections of images (private to ONDA LIST). They include & pictures from the phone's photo collection. They share tags derived from the notes a user dictates or types that accompany each image.
After this quick overview, dive deeper using our tutorials.
Recognition:
Pat S: My wife has been the fearless critic of my efforts. Pat is the archetype of the person I hope to help as we navigate our lives together. I’d be lost without her.
ChatGPT: I would never have started this project, let alone completed it, without the support of ChatGPT writing all the code.
Stan P: A friend who had the patience and faith to listen and reflect on my ideas from the very start, the good, the bad, and the ugly. The re-purchase reminders feature was Stan’s idea.
Diane P: Reminded me that people with dementia have difficulty remembering people. Seniors frequently need a picture to remember a face, along with the context of who, when, where, and how new relationships arise. “People, places, things” is the feature she inspired.