Organizing Quilt-Related Activities

 I have a calendar app called Pocket Informant (PI) which I like very much (so much I paid $12.99 for it).  There is a free version of this app available as well; however it is more limited than the paid version.  In appearance it is very similar to iCal

and you can back it up to a few sources including Google calendar.  I like being able to see color-coded calendar/tasks and reminders in a monthly calendar form and can also view them as a daily or weekly list.  As well as I like the app, though, I felt that I needed a separate calendar for just quilt-related activities and I while I could do that with PI by filtering calendars, I still felt that PI didn’t quite meet my needs.  I found another app that was exactly what I needed – Awesome Note. 

Awesome Note is a to-do calendar where the information is organized in little color coded file folders; inside the folders you can arrange your information as lists or as little post-it notes.

The whole application can be password protected, or you can password protect specific file folders.  I wanted my quilt-related activities to be stored separately by type of activity and easily identified as quilt related, so I chose purple for the file folder color for all quilt-related activities and gave each folder a different title such as call for entries, projects due, quilt shows, guild activities, ideas, etc.     I prefer the post-it note view, so inside each folder where specific dates are important I have four post-it notes titled by quarters (Jan. to Mar., etc.) on which I write the relevant information.  Just a small bit of writing is visible on the note, so I have to touch it to enlarge it to read everything, but it still offers quite a bit of information at a glance. 

Awesome Note's File Folders

Awesome Note's post-its

Do any of you use anything on your iPhone to help keep track of quilting and other activities?  Let us know.  I also have the two free quilting apps, but never use them.  I use my quilting calculator every now and then and I use EQ5 as well.

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