My Iphone might be my best garden tool... Keep my data base of plants Look up all kinds of gardening info Take pictures of plants Use the level function when I build something Post in gardenweb Play lively music to drown out other noise and keep me dancing through the garden! Get calls/emails to sell my extra plants on craigslist Lose it in the garden? LOL, unlike other tools, it fits in my pocket. And I can always call it if I do lose it (unlike my favorite trowel). Garden to go zen on electronic stresses? No, garden to go zen on worrying, of which most is people based.

Roselvr, I bought a Neat scanner and it is terrible! I had read very bad reviews of it but liked the idea so much I couldn't resist trying it. The only good feature is its looks. The functionality is about a 3 on a 1-10 scale. Just make sure you buy it from amazon or some other place that takes returns. When you have any doctors appointment,, ask for a "visit summary printout." Any office that uses electronic medical records and participates in the CMS meaningful use program must provide this upon request. ** You can then either scan in the report at home on your own printer/scanner or use a three hole punch and put the paper into a notebook. *** It's 2013. If your doctor hasn't started using electronic records yet, find a new doctor.

It's YOUR RESPONSIBILITY to keep track of who you are trading with. You print a copy of the trade for your records, or save it into a notebook. An easy way to do this is to print out the address correspondence and write on it the day you mailed out your envelope. Save your correspondence in a brightly colored pocket folder and use it ONLY FOR YOUR TRADES. Keep it by your computer and never walk it out of the room!!! If you don't have a printer you can keep track of your trades by writing down the info in a spiral notebook. Use one sheet per trade/sase. Write down the email of the person you're mailing to, what was sent, what is expected in return, and write down the day it was sent. An excellent suggestion is to put a piece of long ribbon through a ring-hole in the spiral binder and TIE IT TO THE COMPUTER TABLE so it can't disappear. When the seeds come in you can look up right away who they're from and send a THANK YOU via email. Then draw a line through the page to indicate that the trade has been completed....now you're done! I save my "address" emails to a folder in my inbox that I've created called "seed trades". When the seeds come in, I pull up the corresponding letter, and I hit the "respond button" and I say, "thanks, I got the seeds!". Once you say THANK YOU your responsibility is done....all GOOD TRADERS acknowledge the receipt of the other trader's seeds and say thank you. You can then delete the email or move it to another folder called "completed trades". Once you've sent a "Thank You for Trading" you're done with the trade. Store your seeds where they'll be safe and dry until you sow them, and dream and plan for your new garden and future trades. =====================================

I use Goodreads to keep track of what I have read, and there is a Goodreads app-the scanner function doesn't seem to like the clear covers that libraries use, but I have successfully scanned the barcodes on my own books. Guess it depends on the version of phone you have. I don't see why Goodreads wouldn't work for you to catalog a collection as well-you can organize it according to genre on "shelves" which I like a lot.