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Get organized, pack smart with Packing List 2. Your travel essential.

Introducing Packing List 2, the revamped edition of the Packing List. Just like the original Packing List, you can easily create and customize packing lists for any trip, whether you're heading to the beach, hitting the slopes, or jetting off on a business trip.
With a simple and intuitive interface, Packing List 2 allows you to quickly add and remove items from your list, and easily organize them into categories such as clothing, toiletries, and electronics. You can also create multiple lists for different types of trips, and save them for future use.
But that's not all! Packing List 2 also offers helpful features such as group items by luggage or locations, and the ability to share your lists with friends and family. And with automatic syncing across all your devices, you can access your packing lists anytime, anywhere.
Whether you're a frequent flyer or a first-time traveler, Packing List 2 is the perfect tool to help you stay organized and stress-free.

Features:
    • Pre-loaded master templates
    • Create new list from scratch or generate from templates or existing one
    • Support Multiple lists
    • Mass change for easy editing
    • Group by luggage/locations for easy packing
    • Data are automatically synced to the cloud so it can be accessed from multiple devices
    • Share lists between users
   
Notes for the old Packing List - full app users:
You will need to register a new account in Packing List 2. If you have the original "Packing List - full" installed on your current device, the Ads in this app will be automatically removed after account registration. You can also migrate your lists from the old app to the new app. Please see “Backup and Restore” section below for more detail.

Quick links:

Login/Sign up
Creating New List
Add New Item
Import Items
Edit Items
Options on category
Manual Reorder Categories and Items(v1.2.1+)
Assign Luggage
Group By Luggage
Group By Location
Edit Metadata
Mass Change
Export Lists
Share Lists with others
Backup and Restore(Migration)
Offline mode
Where to find our apps

Login/Sign up

To login/Sign up, click “LOGIN/SIGN UP” button the top right of the home screen. You can sign in with Google/Apple or sign up using email/password.

 

Creating New List

To create a new list, click the icon on top right of the Home screen.

It will open the list editor and prompt you to enter name, notes, departure/return dates, destinations and flight information. You can also change the list status to be “Active” or not. In the home screen, you can then choose to display active lists only.

To see the options for a list, swipe the list name to the left. There are options for editing the list header, checking the flight information or weather, changing the list status, deleting the list or sharing the list. We will explain the list sharing feature later in this guide.

Add New Item

Once a list is created, it will automatically send you to the detailed view of the list. You can start adding items by clicking on floating “+” icon at the bottom of the screen or the 3 dots menu icon and then clicking “New Item” from the popup menu. You can also click on the “+” on the right of the category name to add an item to that category.

  

"Name" and "Category" are required fields. You can select a category from the drop down or add a new one by clicking on the “+” icon on the right.

To add multiple items at once to a category, click on icon on the right of the category name and enter the items in the popup dialog.

Import Items

To import items from preloaded templates or any of your lists, open the list you are currently working on, click on the 3 dots icon on the top right. Then select “Import/Export”->"Import from templates" or “Import from my other lists” from the popup menu. It will open the import view. Select a template or list, pick the items you want and click on the save icon on the top right corner.

 

You can also import all items from multiple lists. Click on the icon in the “Import from my other lists” view and select the lists you want to import.

Edit Items

To edit an existing item, swipe the item name to the left. There are options to edit the item, change the quantity of the item, mark the item active/inactive, mark/unmark the item as important and delete the item.

Options on a category

To check/uncheck all items under a category or rename the category, click on the 3-dot icon on the right of the category name and select the option from the popup menu.

Manual Reorder Categories and Items(v1.2.1+)

To reorder categories, go to the “Metadata” view. Select “Category” in the “Metadata Type” drop down. Then click on the icon on the top right corner. It will enter the reordering view. Press on the reorder icon. Then drag and drop the category to desired location. When you are done, click on “Save” to save your changes.

  

To reorder items under a category, click on the 3-dot menu icon on the category. Select “Sort Manually” from the popup menu. It will open the reordering view. The reorder icon can then be used to drag and drop the items and reorder them. When you are done, click on “Save” to save your changes.

 

Assign Luggage

A new feature introduced in this new app is now allowing nested luggage. You can add luggage containing other luggage. You will have a master list of your luggage. Then each packing list will have its own set of luggage. To edit the master luggage list, see the “Edit Metadata” section.

To assign luggage to a list, click on the 3 dots menu icon and then click “Edit Luggage” from the popup menu. You can add a listed piece of luggage from the master list, rename a luggage, add a nested luggage, delete luggage, or swap luggage. You can move nested luggage from one parent to another or add one luggage to another by dragging/dropping the luggage from its original location to its new parent.

Once you have luggage assigned for a list, a little green luggage icon will be displayed next to all the items. You can simply click on the icon and assign luggage for each item.

     

Group by Luggage

The items can be group by luggage. To open the group by luggage view, click on the icon on the top right. Any items with no luggage assigned will be displayed at the bottom under “No Luggage Assigned”. If items has weight assigned, the total weight of a luggage will be calculated when you check off items and displayed under the luggage. If a luggage has weight, it will be added to the total weight as well.

Group by Location

The items can also be grouped by locations. Click on the 3 dots menu icon and then click “Group by Location” from the popup menu. Any items with no location assigned will be grouped together at the bottom of the list. You can simply click on each item and pick the location from the popup list.

Edit Metadata

To edit metadata such as the categories, luggage and locations, click on the icon on the top left and then select “Metadata” from the menu. Then you can choose the metadata type from the drop down and start editing them. If you delete a metadata, the value will be cleared from all the items associated with that metadata.

New changes in v1.0.4, you can now assign weight to a luggage. It will be added to the total weight in the group by luggage view.

   

 

Mass Change

To make changes on multiple items, click on the 3 dots menu icon and then “Mass Change” from the popup menu. It will display items you are able to edit. You will select the items you want to change, then click on the icon on the top right to enter the values. You can also delete multiple items here by clicking on the trash bin icon on the top right.

 

Export List

To export the items in a list, click on the 3 dots menu icon and then “Import/Export”->“Export List” from the popup menu. You can then choose to text, email or save the items in plain text format using preferred apps.

 

Share Lists Between Users

To share a list with another user, swipe the list name to the left and click on the icon.

Then click on the “+” icon on the top right to enter the email address of another registered user.

  

An invitation will be sent to the other user. He/She will receive a notification on the “Account” tab in the app. They can choose to accept or delete the invitation. Once the user accepts the invitation, he/she will be able to see your list under his/her login. You can stop list sharing by delete the user from the “Share List With” view.

 

Backup and Restore(or Migration)

To backup and restore a list, click on the on the top left and then select “Backup & Restore” from the menu. It will save the lists to the local storage on your browser or device. On Android or iPhone, your data will be saved to the “Document” folder under “Internal storage”.

On an Android device, if you have the previous Packing List app(lite or full) installed, the new app will display the button “Migrate From Packing List” to allow you to migrate your lists from those apps.

Here is a video tutorial on how to migrate your lists.

 

For Android 10 and below, the app will try to navigate to the list folder the Packing List(lite or full) is using. You should see the following screen after clicking on “Migrate From Packing List” button. You can then click on the list you want to migrate and click on “Select” button on the top right to select the list.

For Android 11 and above, you will have to first use the “Backup and Restore” feature in the old Packing List app to backup your lists to a folder which can be accessed by the new Packing List 2 app. It is recommended to save your lists to the “Documents” or “Download” folder. When you click on the “Migrate From Packing List” button, it will open the file picker which should look like the screenshot below. You can then navigate to the folder containing the backup and select the list file you want to migrate.

After selecting the file, you will be prompted to check the content and then click on the “Confirm” button to complete the migration.

You can also select multiple files and migrate them at once.

Sometimes if you don’t see your lists after the migration, you might need to kill and restart the app.

Account View

To edit user preferences, sign out or delete the account, click on the on the top left and then select “Account” from the menu. In the preferences section, you can enable dark theme, switch the weight unit and etc.

Please note, if you want to delete your account, you will be prompt to sign out and sign in again to refresh the credential.

Offline Mode

In version 1.1.0 and above, the app allows usage without an internet connection, with certain limitations. Any modifications made are saved locally and synchronized once the device regains online connectivity.

Where To Find the Apps

Web Site:

Packing List 2 on the web

Google Play Store:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dotnetideas.packinglist2

Apple App Store:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/packing-list-2/id1671080832

Contact Us

Please feel free to contact us at support@dotnetideas.com if you have any questions or feedback. Thank you!

Chore Checklist

6/7/2019 - Version 3.3.8

Minor bug fixes in syncing

3/20/2019 - Version 3.3.6

Fix issue with week number being null in monthly chores

2/20/2019 - Version 3.3.5

Fix random notifications showing up for chores with no reminders issue

1/8/2019 - Version 3.3.4

Fix auto sync issue(full version only)

Fix reminder issue

1/7/2019 V3.3.3

Fix issues with reminders. (Please note: Due to the notification changes in Android 8+, you will not be able to assign different ringtones for different chores anymore. The app will use the last ringtone you pick and apply to all reminders.)

9/17/2018 V3.3.2

Fix alarm issue on Android7+

Fix email list issue on Android7+

Add syncing with Google Tasks(beta)

8/16/2018 V3.3.1

Improve "Vacation Mode"

Packing List

3/2/2019 - V4.2.2

Fix auto-sync not showing dialog when opening the app issue

9/19/2018 - V4.2.1

Fix email list issue in Android 7.0+

8/15/2018 - V4.2.0

Add "Invert All"

My Party Planner

4/30/2019 - V2.2.1

Minor bug fix and improvement in Guest View

10/17/2018-V2.2.0

Add the misc tab for decoration or other items

Allow the user to hide unused tabs

Allow the user to add photos to to-do and shopping items

Baking Planner helps you organize holiday cookie baking and other baking events. This app lets you store your favorite recipes. Along with that, Baking Planner can help you organize a list of friends you want to share your treats with, easily distribute these treats into different containers of your choice, and make scheduling your baking days much easier. It automatically calculates how many baking goods you need based on what is needed in each container and the container a recipient is assigned to. The “Ingredient” tab gives you a quick overview on what and how many ingredients are required. From there, you can quickly turn it into a shopping list.

Key features include:

• Managing and storing your favorite recipes
• Adding an unlimited amount of containers of your choice and the number of goodies each container will have.
• Adding recipients of goodies and assigning containers to them. You can also set a date for when recipient will receive your treats.
• Scheduling baking days, calculating how many goods you need to make each day and the remaining quantity of goods left to bake.
• Displaying an ingredient list with the required amount of each item for easy planning

If you have any questions or feedback, please feel free to contact us at support@dotnetideas.com. We will be happy to assist you. Thank you for using our app!

Manage Recipes

Enter Recipes

To enter master recipes, click on the "Menu" button then "Recipes" to open the “Recipe List” view. Click on the floating "+" button at bottom of the screen. Then, Enter the name, any notes, the ingredients, instructions and other information including cooking time or an optional photo.

Delete Recipe and Export Recipe

To delete a recipe, swipe a recipe to the left. Then click on the “trash bin” icon.

To export a recipe to device’s storage, swipe a recipe to the left. Then click on the “share” icon.

Import Recipe and Re-load Master Recipes

To import recipes, click on the “download” icon on the top right corner. It will open to the File Browser view. Navigate to the folder containing the recipe file you want to import it to and then click “IMPORT”.

To re-load system recipes, click on . It will re-load the 4 recipes that come with this app.

 

Baking planning

Create new planner

To create a new plan, click on “Menu”->”Planner” to open the planner list. Click on the “+” icon on the bottom of the view. Then enter title and any notes.

Edit planner

To edit a planner, click on the name of a planner in the planner list view. It will open to the planner detail view. The planner detail view has 5 different tabs with recipe, container, recipient, schedule and ingredient details.

Recipe Tab

To add a recipe, click on the “+” icon on the top right corner. To remove a recipe, swipe the name of the recipe to the left and click on the “trash” icon. When you have assigned the goodies(recipes) to the containers, you can swap out recipes so you don’t have to re-assign them. To swap a recipe, swipe the name of the recipe to the left and click on .

This tab also displays the recipe details so you can use it on baking day. You can change the number of batches from the drop down menu. It will automatically re-calculate the ingredient for you.

Container Tab

In Container Tab, you can add, remove or edit containers. You can also assign goodies for each container.

Recipient Tab

In Recipient Tab, you can add, remove or edit different recipients. When you edit a recipient, you can assign a date when the recipient will receive his/her the treats and how many containers for a recipient.

Schedule Tab

In the “Schedule Tab”, you can set baking days and schedule how many goodies you want to make on those days. It lists the quantity you will need based on when the baking days are and the recipients. It will calculate the scheduled amount and remaining amount automatically. If certain items needed by specific date are already taken care of, it will automatically display the items in green. Otherwise, the items will be displayed in red.

Ingredient Tab

The ingredient tab lists the quantities of all the ingredient needed for scheduled baking days. You can add a checkbox for any item by swiping the name of the item to the left and then click on the “Shopping Cart” icon. To remove the checkbox, swipe the item to the left and click on the “Remove” icon.

 

Backup and Restore

To backup your planners and recipes, click on “Menu” then ”Backup/Restore”. Navigate to the location you want to save it on and click “BACKUP”. It will save all your planners and recipes to that location.

To restore a planner or recipe, click on “Menu” then ”Backup/Restore”, navigate to where the backup file is located, select the file and then click on “RESTORE”.

Contact Us

If you have any questions or feedback, please feel free to contact us at support@dotnetideas.com or visit our website at www.dotnetideas.com

Chore Checklist(Android)

6/28/2016 - Version 3.1.2

• Allow mass change day pattern and other monthly scheduling options on a routine
• Fix issue in "Backup and Restore"
• Other bug fixes and improvement

1/26/2016 - V3.1.0

• Add new scheduling option for monthly and yearly chores(e.g. 2nd Tuesday, last Monday, last day of a month)*
• Add priority to chores
• Allow user to assign different colors to lists
• Add option to check off daily chore for yesterday in Due Date View
• Add option to reset color to system default
• Automatically advance start and end date to next year when end date is passed
• Other bug fixes and improvement
• *Please note:the new scheduling option only works on Android devices for now. If you sync between Android and iOS devices, you cannot check off chores using this option on iOS devices.

 

Packing List(Android)

5/25/2016 - V4.1.2

• Fix issue in backup/restore
• Allow quick edit of luggage by taping on luggage label in list view
• Other minor improvement

11/16/2015 - V4.1.0

• Add more master lists. (Existing users: you can go to "Menu"->"Settings"->"Recover System Lists..." to load new master lists)
• Allow user to paste multiple lines of text in quick edit so each line becomes separate item
• Update location icons to material design
• Allow user to choose theme with different accent colors
• Other bug fixes and improvement

 

My Party Planner

3/14/2016 - V2.1.2

• Fix issue in "Backup and Restore" on Android 6.0+ devices
• When mass copy menu item(dishes), copy shopping and to-do items that are attached to the dishes

2/16/2016 - V2.1.1

• Fix permission issue in Android 6.0
• Fix contact importing issue on some devices
• Other bug fixes and improvement

12/1/2015 - V2.1.0

• Add store for items in shopping list
• Allow user to choose theme with different accent colors
• Add easy access to helper, unit and store edit view from item detail view
• Fix notification display issue on Android Wear watches
• Other bug fixes and improvement

9/28/2015 - V3.0.5

All versions:

• Fix notification display issue on Android Wear watches
• Ignore case when sort chores alphabetically
• Other bug fixes and improvement

Full version:

• Add options to show chores due today or in current month only in widget
• Allow user to skip prompting for finishing for previous cycle
• Allow user to choose accent color(checkbox color) in Honeycomb+

8/3/2015 - V2.0.1

• Allow copying items from one party to another party
• Fix bug in assigning dishes
• Other improvement and bug fixes

4/22/2015 - V2.0.0

• Add Budget section to record estimated and actual costs
• Allow user to assign dishes to guests
• Allow user to assign to-do to helper
• Change data storage location to application own storage
• Add local "Backup and Restore"
• Other improvement and bug fixes

5/4/2015 - V2.0.0

• Add expiration date
• Add quick access buttons
• Change data storage location to application own storage
• Add local "Backup and Restore"
• Fix shop quantity display issue when there is no store selected
• Allow auto-sync when leaving list view(full version)
• Other bug fixes and improvement

We just added the feature to allow users to add Chore Checklist widget to lock screen. It requires Android 4.2+.

Below is what it look like:

To add the widget to lock screen:

1. Go to the lock screen.
2. At the top of your screen, swipe from left to right. If the lock screen has no widgets yet, you'll see a new screen with a Plus icon. If the lock screen already has widget, you will need to swipe from top to bottom first and then left to right until you see a screen with a Plus icon. (You can long press current widget and drag to “X” to remove it)
3. Touch the Plus icon . ...
4. You'll see a list of widgets, including widgets for apps you've installed.
5. Touch the Chore Checklist widget. It will prompt you to choose a list.

The widget is view-only. But you can click on “+” to open “quick add one-time chore” view or touch the widget to open the “Due Date View”.

[Update 5/4/2015]

We just pushed out new release - Packing List 4.0.2, Chore Checklist 3.0.2, My Party Planner 2.0.0 and Grocery Helper 2.0.0 in Google Play. In these releases, we moved data storage location in an effort to resolve lists disappearing issue described below.  The data is now stored on device’s external storage privately owned by these apps. You will not be able to access those list files directly. But we added local "Backup and Restore" which allows users to backup data to SD card or other location. When you upgrade from lite to full version, you will need to backup your lists first from lite version and then restore them after installing the full version. Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions and feedback.

[11/10/2014]

We are currently having an issue on certain devices(Samsung) which were upgraded to Android KitKat(4.4+) in recent months. Some users lost their lists when they update our apps. We store user lists on SD card. It appears that Android KitKat and/or Samsung has locked third party apps from writing to the external storage. It allows third party apps to write data to "special location" on external storage. But when you uninstall or update the app, the device delete those data without warning.

Since it happens when you install new update of our apps and at that time our apps haven’t started running yet, there is nothing we can do about it. Please make a copy of \packinglist\ or \chorechecklist\ folders on your SD card before you get next update of these apps!!!!

Some users also reported data loss when they have certain system cleanup tool running (e.g. Clean Master). Please be careful when you run those tools. You may want to add our apps to “safe list” so those tools will not clean up files created by our apps.

Even if you don’t have Samsung device running Android KitKat(4.4+), we still strongly suggest you to backup your lists. The data is saved under app name folder on your SD card(except BizPack, see below). You should backup the whole folder. To restore the data, just copy the whole folder back. Please check below for the folder name of each app:

Chore Checklist Lite/Full(1.0.0-2.3.6)	\chorechecklist\
Packing List Lite/Full(1.0.0-3.3.5)	\packinglist\
Grocery Helper Lite/Full(1.0.0-1.3.1)	\groceryhelper\
My Party Planner Lite/Full(1.0.0-1.2.1)	\mypartyplanner\
Travel Phrases - French/Italian Lite/Full	\travelphrases\
BizPack	\packinglist\

Sorry for the inconvenience. Thank you for your patience.

2/23/2014 - V4.0.1

• Change data storage location to application own storage
• Add local "Backup and Restore"
• Add "Mass Change" in "Group By Luggage/Location" view
• Allow edit list detail in list detail view
• Allow check weather in list detail view (full version)
• Other bug fixes and improvement