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Re: Ask HN: What software did you purchase that positively impacted your family life

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AnyList ( https://www.anylist.com/ ). Streamlines grocery shopping and the paid version is absolutely worth the money. ~$15/year for a family.

Completely agree. We tried a number of others and settled on that.

We also use it as a quick todo list for things that don’t go into the family asana

Other note- asana, mostly for repeating and long term scheduled tasks has been a huge family boon for us

Re: Ask HN: What software did you purchase that positively impacted your family life

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Tody (https://todyapp.com/) an app for household chores. It makes it easy to create chores to do, tune the cadence to do them at, and divide them up by room and by person. It keeps chores more fair and balanced between my wife and I and helps out with those chores that need to happen every few weeks or months and you forget about them. I also am the type of person that needs a clean inbox or 0 unread messages so it definitely works for my brain. I'm sure there are alternatives or systems that work just as well or better but it works well for us so sticking with it until it doesn't.

Re: Ask HN: What software did you purchase that positively impacted your family life

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Joplin (free, but sponsored) in combination with a Storagebox at Hetzner. Joplin allows us to share notes, shopping lists, to do lists, etc via Webdav between our various devices (mobile phones, laptops, desktops).

https://joplinapp.org and https://www.hetzner.com/de/storage/storage-box

Re: Ask HN: What software did you purchase that positively impacted your family life

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Piggybacking onto this thread, does anyone use software or any services for their parenting that they find invaluable? I imagine mentors and services like Kumon are popular with this crowd? How about the non-academic front?

I pay for a fitness app and a meditation app. I’m such a better parent when I’m not constantly burnt out and at the end of my rope.

Re: Ask HN: What software did you purchase that positively impacted your family life

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Piggybacking onto this thread, does anyone use software or any services for their parenting that they find invaluable? I imagine mentors and services like Kumon are popular with this crowd? How about the non-academic front?

> I imagine mentors and services like Kumon are popular with this crowd?

Not in my bubble at least.

Re: Ask HN: What software did you purchase that positively impacted your family life

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We use AnyList (https://www.anylist.com) for grocery shopping. Much as we like to imagine we are wide-ranging eaters, we eat similar ingredients every week.

AnyList lets us make shopping lists easily, add items as they run low (with previous items available to us, and check them off as we shop. There are some more sophisticated features we don't use like recipe imports and meal planning.

We also have lists for eg the hardware store, which notify us when we are nearby. And I use it for eg making packing lists for overnight trips.

Re: Ask HN: What software did you purchase that positively impacted your family life

#37

Not family wide but very personal: MacroFactor. It healed my relationship with food, and helped me lose 60 lbs. Worth every penny ($12/month subscription).

Huge fan of this app. It's really changed how I think about eating on a fundamental level. In particular I learned very quickly I wasn't eating enough protein, and since adding more protein into my diet I'm much less tired and also believe I'm thinking more clearly.

Re: Ask HN: What software did you purchase that positively impacted your family life

#38
post #12

YNAB

Second to YNAB. I’m sad they’ve raised the price, but 99% of our budget and finance strife is gone due 100% to YNAB. Plus the deal to have free budgets for your older kids? Very nice.

I’m sad they rewrote it for the web and made an inferior, subscription-based product.

Re: Ask HN: What software did you purchase that positively impacted your family life

#40

YNAB

I used YNAB before but much prefer LunchMoney[1] (the thing that got me to switch initially was better multi-currency support, since I generally make money in one currency, hold it in another, and spend it in a third). My referral link[2] will get you 1 month free ;)

[1] https://lunchmoney.app

[2] https://lunchmoney.app/?refer=b19iwkvc

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