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I'm thinking a camera, a photo album and a notebook and pencil.
Or maybe a pen for the more advanced.
 
We us an educational app in my school called Seesaw (http://web.seesaw.me/) I can see how this app could easily be translated to a tool for keeping notes and photos for bonsai. Students become bonsai...use your phone to quickly and easily take a photo, video, note, sketch, etc....then you check the box for the correct bonsai and a "portfolio" is created. I realize that Seesaw incorporates a server but if you could find away to store things locally I think it would be an excellent tool.
I hope you will take the time to check this one out!
 
YukiShiro said:
Mike,

when I'm done with this app I'll send you a beta copy to mess around with...you seem critical enough :p
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I hardly take pictures Herman. The most internet related thing I do is this forum.
I seem to be able to remember what tree has had what done and when in my head.
 
I've always got my phone on me.

I've downloaded Bonsai Album, have added in a couple of trees.

What I'd look for is some sort of calendar integration, either through the app itself or Calendar on my iPhone. This would help with fertilizer application, maybe acidic additions and watering, but it would have to be something quick, like a box to check.

Pics are great additions, that's a given. But, the ability to group trees by individual species and/or type i.e., Tropical, Decidous, etc. would be nice too.

Notes are important so I can annotate when I repotted a tree, when I should repot, maybe integrated into a Calendar as well. Soil type, or what I used for soil for that particular tree is also important to note.

At work, I use an app that has my schedule in it, in the settings I can place my home location and the app will give me weather information, this would be cool too. I know it's easy to just look at the weather app, but if this was integrated into a bonsai app, I would have one place I could look. In the notes, I could also annotate whether the tree needs full sun, part sun, or shade. By checking a box or making some sort of annotation, there could be a small annotation by each entry that would show a full sun, part sun or what have you.

These are just initial thoughts I had.
 
Each tree is given a numbered tag and I use Excel to track each tree and what was done to it, when I get a chance to update it. I also take pictures and file them with dates so I can compare from year to year.

I have a general spreadsheet with info, by species, on sun preference, pruning/repotting timing, cold tolerance, etc
 
looked up some bonsai app's. You always have to manually select picture on phone, setting date and ... Might be good to start with a folder system you can load your photo's in per tree. Putting in a calender per tree and able to making individual notes per day or per photo. Other issue is the timing. Fertilizing is mostly not tree specific for me, so would be a general item (calendar) except for some trees. Now google agenda for this.
 
Did anything ever come of this thread?

I am a software engineer with a significant amount of experience writing document/content management systems. I have been thinking about developing a bonsai management system that I would run as a free service on the internet. I have what I think is a reasonable idea of what is desired in the system and am in a position to be able to deliver the back end, exposed via REST API, but I am not in the position to be able to write the client.

I suspect that ios/adroid is what would be the most used interface. If there was a robust/scalable/secure/free backend available is there anyone interested in developing the client for this system?
 
I'd love to combine my excel data about humidity, temperature and water usage to create size (growth) graphs that correspond with each other.
Example:
Average temps of the month, this amount of water, that amount of nutrients, resulting in this amount of length growth for this species.

But I have not been consistent with it. It takes some effort to extract everything from the loggers and combine it.


All other practices, I log in excel with a drop down menu: select plant, select date, select action: pruning, wiring, cliping, trimming, feeding etc.
Then: day of first response, type of response, severity of response, notable issues.

I like creating data and collecting it. But I suck at programming and excel works like crap on mobile.

If you could make an app with functions like that, I'd pay at least a dollar for it in the play store! It doesn't have to be bonsai specific even, I think more gardeners and cannabis growers are jumping to get an app like that for a reasonable price. You found yourself a potential gold mine.

I know there are apps for data like that in agriculture, maybe they can inspire some more.
 
Cypress187 said:
I use the app "Bonsai Manager" you can post pics and schedule any type of action or add actions and/or species.The app-icon is a stylish bonsai in a red circle with white in it (if you looking for it).
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Is that an iPad app, can’t find it in the App Store.
 
I use Bonsai Album and it is pretty good but there are some things I'd like to see changed. I was going to make my own before finding Bonsai Album and still might but that doesn't really help anyone else since I'd be the only one to be able to use it. The tool I use (FileMaker) would probably be cost prohibitive for wide scale deployment (though it would work with Mac, PC, iDevices, and web).
 
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