[lurch]

Originally Posted by JR

That gives me plenty of time to work on my wife. To help me out, any advice from the experienced? What are the selling points that would convince her it's the way to go? (She's not techie, but does user her 1910 reasonably often).

I have found that if I can SHOW my wife how it's practical (and not just by emphatically saying "but I/we NEED it!!!") then she'll be more willing to give it a shot.

A while back I wanted us to each get a cell phone with the family plan, and ditch the home phone all-together, so I put together some handouts, slides, etc... with some research -- pricing, cost-savings, etc.. I ALMOST had her!!!! She mostly just laughed at me though..
We almost signed up, but then life-circumstances changed it, so we didn't.

[lurch]

Originally Posted by JR

That gives me plenty of time to work on my wife. To help me out, any advice from the experienced? What are the selling points that would convince her it's the way to go? (She's not techie, but does user her 1910 reasonably often).

I have found that if I can SHOW my wife how it's practical (and not just by emphatically saying "but I/we NEED it!!!") then she'll be more willing to give it a shot.

A while back I wanted us to each get a cell phone with the family plan, and ditch the home phone all-together, so I put together some handouts, slides, etc... with some research -- pricing, cost-savings, etc.. I ALMOST had her!!!! She mostly just laughed at me though..
We almost signed up, but then life-circumstances changed it, so we didn't.

[Kati Compton]

Originally Posted by MBaas

I recently saw an birth-announcement (or whatever the correct english word might be) in the newspaper where the husband had taken his GPS into the delivery room to measure the exact coordinates (which were also noted in the announcement).

I don't suppose this was in San Jose, was it? I have a friend that recently had a kid and he's likely to do something like that.

[MBaas]

Originally Posted by Kati 'kati42' Compton

I don't suppose this was in San Jose, was it? I have a friend that recently had a kid and he's likely to do something like that.

That was far away from San Jose, in good ol' germany

Cheers

Michael

[i_spock]

Originally Posted by ferraris

Obviously a must have application for any PPC :wink: but will the means to review the data be around in 5, 10, 15 years time?


Simon

My thoughts exactly. That's the problem with all of these "tracker" programs. I'm afraid of spending considerable time and effort to enter this information only to have it shackled by the application! I'd much rather use pocket excel and be able to do anything I want with the data.

I agree that, of all the things one can track, baby info is one of the most useful. Thank goodness my wife keeps all of that info safe and sound

Now, please excuse me, I need to open my tracker tracking program so that I can track another app that I'll be using to track things.... gotta keep track of what I'm tracking, otherwise I'll forget to track something, which is another thing I'll have to keep track of.... :rotfl:

[Barak]

Well, my wife claims she has no time to update our son's baby book. :roll:

He's 5 months and already we've missed documenting some milestones.
I think she'll be excited by this program and will probably hand me the money to buy it today: - as long as I am the one that inputs all the info. 0X

She's a Palm user - what do you expect! :mrgreen:

[PeterLake]

Originally Posted by ferraris

Obviously a must have application for any PPC :wink: but will the means to review the data be around in 5, 10, 15 years time?

A great point I learned the hard way. I happened to record my daughter's second word on my Cassiopeia (which is why its good to always carry one around). However, the Cassiopeia stored it in some sort of WAV format that I still haven't figured out how to convert yet (although I haven't spent that much time, either).

[Jeff Rutledge]

I have a feeling that she'll be all for me doing it, but she'll probably keep a traditional baby book herself at the same time. And really, that couldn't hurt eh?

[Ed Hansberry]

Originally Posted by i_spock

That's the problem with all of these "tracker" programs. I'm afraid of spending considerable time and effort to enter this information only to have it shackled by the application!

Someone could actually download and test this app and see if it is in a proprietary format or if it is easy to export the data. There is a free trial.

[Jeff Rutledge]

Originally Posted by Ed Hansberry

Someone could actually download and test this app and see if it is in a proprietary format or if it is easy to export the data. There is a free trial.

Yeah, I'm planning to. Hopefully I'll be able to today. If not, on the weekend. I'll post my findings.

[ctmagnus]

Originally Posted by Ed Hansberry

There is no limit on the numbers of babies it supports.

Good for some people. :wink: