We are preparing for the holiday shopping for February 23 and March 8: The best tools and tips

Again, to us quietly crept up two holidays at once. A few days later the beautiful half of Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and others involved in the feats of the last countries will congratulate strong half on the Day of Fatherland Defender, and then, after only 12 days, have come today to congratulate the lovely women with their international holiday.

However, all the delights of the festive atmosphere is preceded by two fairly routine and nervous thing.

We need:

1. buy gifts
2. buy food for the holiday table

And only in this order. Purchase potatoes and chicken (if you do not forget, but more on that later), you can quickly and everywhere, but to generate and implement gift ideas - it is much more difficult, and the original idea, the more time and effort is often required on its implementation. Most people prefer to postpone everything until the last, and in such a situation "that would give" more and more shifted towards "would give anything." Fear does not have time to disable the ability to think creatively. All over the fact that you come to the dear person with some trivial mass consumption, which was seized along with the crowd the same panic in the tent with balls. I think that man is always nice to receive a gift in the socks? :)

Pre panic is accompanied by a massive buying of goods, some of which may turn out to be your early ideas that you do not bother to buy in advance. In general, to prepare in advance. You should start with determining the number of people who need to buy gifts. Thus, we will have a clearly defined minimum number of necessary ideas. Well, then move on to the fun part - the torment of his brain on "what to give."

a little trick

Do not forget about the old, but extremely effective method of choosing a gift for loved ones. Just say that the gift has already purchased, but without specifics. "I still do not guess, be patient." At this point, you will pour out several ideas, with the most successful - the person will be called in the first place, what is most desired. Have time to write :)

Why do you need a smartphone?

Where write? We believe that there need maximum availability. Our smart phones are always with us, and capture absolutely all thoughts, lists and ideas you need there. Moreover, when it comes to shopping options formed, they need to be made to any shopping list, which is also comfortable to hold in the smartphone.

To fix ideas there are dozens of tools. Some of them are more functional, while others are simple and limited functions. The bottom line is this: all these electronic notebook, in fact, serve as an extension of our memory. They are very effective, but not everyone can make himself start to use them just like that. Well, it is now an excellent opportunity to do so. Otherwise, when you have a tenth of an idea born in the head of a gift, half of the already generated variants forgotten.

3 objectives - 3 applications

You can use a single application for ideas and shopping list, but we are in favor of the specialized software. Why?

Universal App for your notes - this is a kind of workshop of ideas and thoughts. Bowler for brainstorming. Here are born and stored outline, unformed assumptions. When the thought process comes to the end result clearly indicated the subject - it is the place to go to be executed in an environment specially created for such purposes. Items to purchase go to your shopping list. It's simple.

So, in order to maximize the take off load the storage and the extraction of information in the pre-holiday period, you can use three applications. Successor of memory, a shopping list, and a third tool - a search engine for products.

Search products

Finder needed when you buy something more or less significant, and to do well in advance for the benefit of the purse, that is, buy online.

Also search includes reviews and product characteristics that can play a decisive role in choosing, say, a coffee machine and any other items submitted by dozens of manufacturers and hundreds of models. However, the standard Google and Yandex has not been canceled.

workshop ideas

It all begins with the birth of the idea. An important point in choosing a mate is a cloud synchronization and cross-platform - without the product is not even worthy of mention. Choose, in fact, there are plenty, that's just it is easy to lose the essence of the difference between notes and task lists. All sorts of Wunderlist, Any. DO, Clear and OmniFocus with clones brothers are more suitable for the second, and therefore not fit for requirements.

Evernote

To understand the full power and capabilities of this solution can be simple Never nail in our search keyword «evernote». Indeed, the all-powerful tool for someone tricked, however, will have to pay not the best performance.

google Keep

It Evernote from Google. Less heaped more nimble. Glory Baranskii recently shared chip overview and Google Keep opportunities. Read his article, and all questions will disappear.

shopping lists

Contents idea worthy of a gift is sent to the shopping list. In addition, we still have not gone away from the need to purchase products to the table. All of these tasks fall on the shoulders of shopping lists. You can say whatever you want, but the practice of talking about one thing - the purchase shall be drawn up and implemented with the help of a shopping list. Not using a list of tasks, and not with the help of notes. These highly specialized products originally sharpened under certain very specific action. This implies a whole new level of usability and comfort as a whole.

"Alternative Medicine"

However, not everyone wants to be friends with the applications. For a start, we offer you a selection of the original ways in which people try to make the planning and campaign for simpler products.

On a home computer compose .txt file in Notepad. It lies in the My Dropbox folder. On the iPhone marked by a "star" to upload / sync to iPhone. Mikhail

Made plain Web application itself. alexander Lipchansky

When you need a lot of things (in NY, for example) - make a list in a Google-dock and laptop phone photograph)) Here such synchronization! Ursaminora

The list is written on the whiteboard, leaving the house, I take pictures of this board to mobile. Ali

I use a notebook sheet and fountain pen. Novel

If buying a lot, I write a list on the leaf, and if small, it is stored in numeric order - for example, it is necessary to buy a 7 products. Then all is recollected in the course, and the knowledge of "magic numbers" helps not to forget anything. artetia

"Traditional medicine"

Immediately it should be noted that the list did not get "one-sided" development, not available on both platforms, as well as non-cloud synchronization. For example, string bags and have not received synchronization and ShopShop, which you will not find in Google Play.

Buy a loaf!

Very popular application present on Android, iOS and a Web version. Cloud sync is also present. The main advantage over similar products - emphasis on simplicity and ease of use.

Out of Milk

Another multi-instrument synchronization and useful additional features, some of which are available, unfortunately, in the US alone.

Now, when you have all the necessary training tools for the holidays, you can get down to business.