I'm having a baby. Any good baby journal software?

[BClie2k]

The time ha come and I'm going to be a father for the first time. My wife is 11 weeks pregnant and we are really excited. I was wondering if there was a good baby program for my NX. HR+ would be nice, but any colorful program with great features would do it.

Thanks a lot and I promise to take pictures of my baby with my Clie. By that time we might have the 4MP Clie with built in BT and WiFi.

Al

[Shrink]

I've seen a good number of neat apps on:
www.palmgear.com
Do a search.
Good Luck, happiness and health with the new little one "to be".
alan

[MWKeiki]

One that I use and like because it is NOT just a dedicated "baby journal" is Daynotez by Natara. You can have general (e.g., Business, Personal) or specific (e.g., Reynolds Project, Baby Jane, Dear Wife, etc) categories.

THe desktop companion is great, there are enough import/export options, and it works great with Slap, a new "quick entry" app came on the scene recently.

The value of "dedicated" apps is that they often include space for information that you might not think of writing down that will often come in handy (immunizations, developmental milestones, etc).

Best to you - fatherhood is great!

[Pseudo Nim]

Daynotez is AMAZING. I don't know why it is (like, to me, none of the functions are particularly obviously amazing enough that I can mention it here --- but they come together into a really nice package), but when I went to Japan, I switched from using Quickword for my journal to Daynotez - never looked back. The desktop companion is wicked, too.

Probably the best app you can get for that. Too bad it doesn't remember whether it was left in HR+ or not, so I have to use hrFontMapper to force it every time...

-pN

[cpwoo]

Ah, yes, DayNotez. The more I use the program, the more I like it. I used to use "Daily Journal" feature in Agendus, coupled with putting meetings notes, thinking that I would not need a dedicated journaling program. Once I started to use DayNotez, I no longer use meeting notes in datebook dbs. DayNotez handles all journaling activities.

Although I don't have a separate category for writing journal about my son, but I use "personal" category to write journal about my family (my wife & son).

[xyeta]

ditto accolades for DayNotez


Ps. CONGRATULATIONS!!

<---------- This is Emily, our first, now 14mos. old. Over the past 14 mos, I have learned the meaning of life and love. You don't know the depths of your love until you hold your own.

[profvisor]

Congratulations!

[LanMan]

Yes, congrats! My son just turned 2-months yesterday. Good software that I have found:

dT-Pain

Can't seem to find that pain intensity scale card when you need it? Why not keep one in your Palm OS device?
JCAHO standard RI.1.2.8 requires that all patients have an appropriate and rapid assessment of their pain. Standard PE.1.4 requires health care providers to use a pain intensity measure.
dT-Pain is a shareware Palm OS utility that allows patients to indicate the intensity of their pain by tapping the PDA screen.

http://www.palmgear.com/software/showsoftware.cfm?sid=91954620020808053823&prodID=43783

McBaby

V1.0 (4/26/02) Keep track of your babies Birth Information, Doctor Information, Doctor Visits, Sicknesses, First Words, First Actions, Insurance, BabySitters, Check List, Multiple Notepad, and all the Well-Baby Checks from birth to 13 YOA to ensure you don't miss any shots. Set alarms to remind you. It list the shots and what months to get them as recommended by the United States 2002 Recommended Childhood Immunization Schedule. Please check with your doctor to confirm he/she agrees with this schedule.

http://www.palmgear.com/software/showsoftware.cfm?sid=91954620020808053823&prodID=41385

Shots 2003

Shots 2003 is a quick reference guide to the 2003 Childhood Immunization Schedule, a collaboration of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP). Details on each vaccine are available by clicking on the vaccine names.

Shots 2003 is sponsored by the Group on Immunization Education of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine

http://www.palmgear.com/software/showsoftware.cfm?sid=91954620020808053823&prodID=8601

StickEm!

With the current recommended number of vaccinations for children 2 years old and under at a staggering 17 to 20 shots (depending on your state and allowing for new vaccinations), how is a parent supposed to keep track of which kid has been immunized against which disease?

Well, look no further moms (and dads)! StickEm! by MomsPDA.com will help you keep track of which child received what shot and when! StickEm! will:
· Track popular vaccinations
· Differentiates between shot rounds
· Track when vaccinations were given
· Track any side effects as a result of a vaccination
· Remember any special notes you enter for each shot given
· Show you the recommended time table for vaccinations by the AAP (American Academy of Pediatricians) for children up to age 12!
http://www.palmgear.com/software/showsoftware.cfm?sid=91954620020808053823&prodID=43038

Contraction Timer

Are you expecting a baby? Every pregnant woman and labor coach needs a copy of Contraction Timer! It takes the math away from labor.
Use the big buttons to keep a log of contractions, while Contraction Timer automatically calculates the most important information for your midwife or doctor: the frequency of the contractions and their duration. No stylus required! It's better than a stopwatch.
You can keep notes about the labor, too. When you're done you can save the log to the MemoPad for later editing and printing.
It also has an elapsed time counter for labor coaches! It even beeps and flashes when contractions come closer than 3 minutes apart.
After the birth, the note-taking feature lets you use Contraction Timer to keep track of breastfeeding times or diaper changes!
Features:
· Stylus-free operation for basic functions
· Extensively tested
· Works on all version of PalmOS
· Used by midwives and doulas: you know it can handle anything you throw at it!
· Adapative display for long time intervals
· Note-taking capability
· Export to MemoPad
· FREE!

http://www.palmgear.com/software/showsoftware.cfm?sid=91954620020808053823&prodID=7439

BabyCalc

BabyCalc is a simple program to help determine the important dates during a pregnancy. A device known as "The Wheel" was the model for this program

http://www.palmgear.com/software/showsoftware.cfm?sid=91954620020808053823&prodID=3610

OB Suite

OB Suite includes a standard OB wheel, also calculates dates from US data, allows the practitioner to calculate when a patient will reach a certain geatational age, tracks OB patients, tracks inpatients, tracks procedures, and calculates Bishop score.

http://www.palmgear.com/software/showsoftware.cfm?sid=91954620020808053823&prodID=43122

Dayz Off

(02/17/02) Changed name to Dayz Off.Keep track of your vacation days off and any other individual days off. It is not a calendar program, but meant to be a convenient program to keep up with days off in one location for a quick reference. You can also beam your Days Off data to someone else as long as you both have Days Off loaded.

http://www.palmgear.com/software/showsoftware.cfm?sid=91954620020808053823&prodID=39557

CountDown

This is an app of the series YANA (yet another nonsense application). Actually I wrote it for a friend who always counts the days remaining to a special date. May be there is someone who likes it :-)
This may be the simplest (beyond hello world) app I ever came across for the Palm OS. Just set a date and see how many days remains.

http://www.palmgear.com/software/showsoftware.cfm?sid=91954620020808053823&prodID=35143

ePocrates Rx

Used by over 500,000 healthcare professionals, ePocrates Rx is the most easy to use, comprehensive and widely adopted drug reference for Palm OS handheld devices. Use it to QUICKLY and conveniently find all the critical, peer-reviewed information you need for over 2600 medications --- adult and peds dosing including off-label indications, interactions, pricing, packaging, formulas and other tables, adverse reactions divided into serious and common reactions, mechanism of action and much more. Also take advantage of MultiCheck, a unique multiple drug interaction check feature that enables you to check interactions on up to 30 drugs at one time. Instantly access continually updated clinical data and medication safety DocAlert messages from the FDA by using the AutoUpdate feature. Stay tuned for the upcoming alternative medicine database that ePocrates will release later this year.

http://www.palmgear.com/software/showsoftware.cfm?sid=91954620020808053823&prodID=4891

Progect Manager

It's an outliner, a kind of ToDo tool, but with hierarchical order. A task can be composed of other subtasks. Tasks can be syncronized with the ToDo app. Please visit my web page for more details.Don't hesitate to go to the public forums on my sourceforge page. The more feedback I have, the more motivated I'll be.

http://www.palmgear.com/software/showsoftware.cfm?sid=91954620020808053823&prodID=8421

HandyShopper

HandyShopper is a great shopping list tool, with plenty of features. You can even use it for other kinds of lists! HandyShopper works on Palm OS 2.0 through 5.0, on all Palm-based devices (including HandSpring, Sony, HandEra, etc). Visit the HandyShopper User Group to get or share ideas, etc. And best of all, HandyShopper is FREEWARE!

http://www.palmgear.com/software/showsoftware.cfm?sid=91954620020808053823&prodID=1350

HappyDays

HappyDays will help you remember the birthdays and anniversaries of yourfriends and family members.HappyDays is free to use and licensed under the GNU General PublicLicense. It supports lunar calendar(Useful for Asia people).English, German, Chinese, Thai, Spanish, French, Czech, Dutch, Catalan and Korean version are available now. Full support for Handera 330 with 240 x 320 screen resolution with virtual graffiti area, while running properly on the "normal" Palm-powered devices with 160x160 screen.

http://www.palmgear.com/software/showsoftware.cfm?sid=91954620020808053823&prodID=6289

Converter

Whether you're travelling and need to convert from celsius to fahrenheit, or if you're a scientist needing to convert radioactivity types, convert with ease, convert with Converter!
Now supporting 215 types in 23 different categories, Converter covers all the types you need and plenty more besides, all tucked into a compact, easy to use application.
Converter lets you configure the types you frequently use so that you can access those without the others getting in the way. One click and the rest of the types are still available to you.
Give Converter a try today, it uses only 24K of memory on your Palm and best of all it is completely free. Converter is the definative Palm conversion tool and the only one you'll need.

http://www.palmgear.com/software/showsoftware.cfm?sid=91954620020808053823&prodID=3367

eDiary

Its a simple diary application for Palm OS that is designed to be easy to understand and convenient in everyday use. eDiary just stores text notes with dates. Developed according to Palm OS application interface guidelines it includes no sophisticated features that aren't absolute necessity.

http://www.palmgear.com/software/showsoftware.cfm?sid=91954620020808053823&prodID=43393

AvantGo Web Client

AvantGo Web Client takes information from the Web and corporate Intranets and puts it right in your hands. No strings (or cables) attached! By simply tapping on hypertext links, you'll surf through volumes of information to get exactly the information you need with instantaneous response. Simply choose the Web sites you'd like to store on your Pilot using the AvantGo Desktop application. Then, whenever you HotSync, new content will be synchronized automatically. Now, you can HotSync sports scores, headline news, stock quotes, and reports or documents created from your company databases directly onto your PalmPilot. You're no longer tethered to a desktop or laptop PC. Just HotSync and go!

http://www.palmgear.com/software/showsoftware.cfm?sid=91954620020808053823&prodID=1083

Olive Tree BibleReader

You'll have a lot of time for reading, and may want the comfort of God's Word close at hand.

http://www.olivetree.com

[Noodles Hovar]

Yes congratulations!

Make sure this kid shows up in your avatar ASAP!

[Jennyfer]

I also vote for Daynotez....one of my most valuable programs.

[Tixx]

Congratulations:)

[BClie2k]

Wow, Thank you very much guys. I feel like having an
e-babyshower :) I didn't know I was going to get that many replys with congrats and suggetions.

I'll take a picture of my baby and post it here.

Thanks again,

Al

[cbulock]

LanMan, thanks for the great links!

[LanMan]

Your welcome, cbulock. That is a list of software that I found to be essential when my wife was pregnant. And of course some of it is now for keeping track of the little one.

The contraction timer software really works!

Here is a freeware ob wheel:

http://www.freewarepalm.com/medical/stluke'sobwheel.shtml

I used it and it worked just fine. It's made by the same author as the OB Wheel that Palmgear charges $10 for. The freeware also includes Peds Calc. It's a calculator for pediatric medication dosage. I haven't really tried to second guess the doctor with this one yet. I simply double check the doses with the pharmacist.

We took our son in for his first series of shots yesterday. ouchy! :( Shots 2003 was very valuable. I even reminded the doctor of a immunization that was due that he had forgot to mark down on the list! ;) The doc and nurse were really impressed that I had all the immunization info right there in my hand. Shots 2003 even made note of the combination formula that they used! I even double checked it against the CDC site, and it's completely accurate. All for free.

I used Stickem to keep track of the immunizations, but I will probably make a HandyShopper DB to track them (isn't HS2 great!).

Another nice utility for keeping track of time missed (you will miss some time) at the office is Hours 1.8.5 freeware.

http://www.palmgear.com/software/showsoftware.cfm?sid=C0E2EDF7-8D71-4588-A69E6CF7CBDE9EC7&prodID=30423

Check out Peter Novotnik's Projects freeware as well:

http://www.palmgear.com/software/showsoftware.cfm?sid=C0E2EDF7-8D71-4588-A69E6CF7CBDE9EC7&prodID=29218

[SprSaiyan8]

Congratulations! check out smartlist www.Dataviz.com

[LanMan]

Here's a new freeware doc:

Description:
"The Prospective Mother", by J. Morris Slemons in Palm Reader eBook format. A Handbook For Women During Pregnancy.

http://www.freewarepalm.com/docs/prospectivemother.shtml

[pachman]

Been a LONG time since anyone contributed to this discussion, but just goes to show the power of searching on CS....I'm 32 weeks away from being a Dad, and eager to find apps that mean my future baby, and my current one (otherwise known as NX73) can coexist ;-)

Think I might have to use some of my spare time and spare webspace to set up some pages for PDADads !!! :-)

[anniebluesky]

Babies, babies everywhere! I would vote for daynotez (useful for a multitude of reasons) and HandyShopper...also invaluable. If you look in the HS yahoo group files > business, (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/handyshopper/files/Business/) you will see a file that I made ages ago and finally uploaded to the group. It is called HS2_Pets.PDB. If you look at the way it is setup, it can easily be changed to work for your children.

[anniebluesky]

Why is it that when logging in directly to a post, it makes you a guest? I had to go to the home page and log in. :(

[*YellowRose*]

Here's a good (color) program that will be useful AFTER the baby . . .

Shots 2003 (http://www.freewarepalm.com/medical/shots.shtml)

http://www.freewarepalm.com/images/products/medical/shots.gif












I'll let you know if I find any more . . .

[Unregistered]

Thanks for the recommendations for Contraction Timer. (I programmed it.) I just got my TG50, and I realize it looks really primitive on the high-res, color interface.

Besides which, it's moved; it's now at http://judebert.com/ for your downloading pleasure.

Hope everything ...er... came out all right. Congratulations!

[*YellowRose*]

Originally posted by Unregistered
I just got my TG50, and I realize it looks really primitive on the high-res, color interface.So there's an update coming up?

[notmuch]

Originally posted by Unregistered
Thanks for the recommendations for Contraction Timer. (I programmed it.) I just got my TG50, and I realize it looks really primitive on the high-res, color interface.

Besides which, it's moved; it's now at http://judebert.com/ for your downloading pleasure.

Hope everything ...er... came out all right. Congratulations!

more kudos... Contraction Timer was a big help for us with months of Braxton Hicks and of course the real deal.

Thanks.

[LanMan]

Yes, thanks again for CT, judebert!

[LanMan]

StickEm is no longer available at PalmGear, but you can access it at MomsPDA.com:

http://www.momspda.com/pda/download/stickem.prc

[Tunzi]

Congrats, if this is your first baby, your whole world will change and instead of the PDA in you hand, you will have a baby in your hands. They grow so fast and it's amazing watching how they change. Just had my first and it seems that work is the only time I use/update my PDA. The baby will chand your outlook on EVERYTHING!
Enjoy and best wishes!

[LanMan]

Congrats, if this is your first baby, your whole world will change and instead of the PDA in you hand, you will have a baby in your hands. They grow so fast and it's amazing watching how they change. Just had my first and it seems that work is the only time I use/update my PDA. The baby will chand your outlook on EVERYTHING!
Enjoy and best wishes!

AMEN!!! :D