Baking Planner User Guide

December 7, 2017 at 12:42 PMAdministrator

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.

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Delete Recipe and Export Recipe

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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

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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 image. It will re-load the 4 recipes that come with this app.

 

Baking planning

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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 image.

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.

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Container Tab

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Backup and Restore

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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

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New Releases

June 28, 2016 at 2:18 PMAdministrator
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

Chore Checklist New Release(Android)

September 28, 2015 at 7:32 AMAdministrator

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+

My Party Planner New Release(Android)

August 5, 2015 at 8:48 AMAdministrator

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

Grocery Helper New Release(Android)

May 4, 2015 at 9:38 AMAdministrator

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

How to add widget to lock screen?

March 30, 2015 at 4:29 PMAdministrator

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:

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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”.

 

Posted in: Chore Checklist | FAQ

Important Announcement To Android Users

February 25, 2015 at 12:13 PMAdministrator

[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.

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Packing List New Release(Android)

February 23, 2015 at 12:52 PMAdministrator

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

My Party Planner Release Notes(Android)

July 16, 2014 at 2:14 PMAdministrator

7/16/2014 - V1.2.1

  • Add start time for to-do items. Allow user to set time of a day an item needs to be started
  • Group to-do items by due date
  • Allow user to mass change start time for multiple items(full version only)
  • Allow user to set reminder for multiple to-do items(full version only)
  • Other improvement and bug fixes

2/25/2014 V1.1.0

  • Allow user to choose dark or light theme(Android 3.0+ only)
  • Allow editing of units
  • Recompile for latest Android OS
  • Other bug fixes

● Video Tutorials–How to use online editor and how to share lists between users?

February 28, 2014 at 7:02 AMAdministrator

We uploaded some video tutorials to show how to use online editors and list catalog on our web site. The videos use Chore Checklist Editor and Chore Checklist – Full app(Android) as examples to demonstrate the steps in creating new lists, editing existing lists, syncing lists, sharing lists and using list catalog. The process also applys to Packing List Editor, Inventory List Editor and Shopping List Editor. Our iPhone/iPad or Windows 8 version of the apps offer the same features but with slightly different interface.

Create New Lists

This video shows you how to create a new list using Chore Checklist Editor

 

Edit Existing Lists

In this video, you will learn how to edit an existing list, re-order items and edit metadata.

 

Sync Lists

The following video shows you how to sync lists between Android device and cloud server. (Note: Chore Checklist Full app and Chore Checklist Cloud Connector are required on the Android device)

 

Share Lists

This video shows you how to share lists between two accounts. In this demo, user b@b.com shared one list with user c@c.com. You will see how user c@c.com download that list to his Android device.

 

Use List Catalog

This video shows you how to use list catalog. You can create list from list template in the catalog or add items from template to your existing list.

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