Anybody use the Color My Life app?

I’ve been using the CML app for over a year. I figured it was going to be time-consuming to inventory my stash anyway, so I might as well try the one that was more custom-craft-leaning. To my mind, it is well worth the effort & price.

It ensures I don’t double-buy. Helps me know what colors/variants of something I might still like to get. Also, sometimes (always increasing/improving, but still only sometimes) the item is scannable w/ my iPad or phone by its barcode, which makes entry even faster than manually typing the name and details.

But far and away for me, my favorite aspect is the tagging/searching. I do take the time to enter a *lot* of tag words to each item (For instance, on a small Lawn Fawn otter stamp, I might enter Lawn Fawn, otter, animal, ocean, etc in the tag section to make it come up in any of those searches), but it’s well worth it when I’m brainstorming or quickly trying to find just the right supplies for a card, layout, or project.

Definitely a bit labor-intensive on the front end (as is any cataloguing process or tool, I suppose), but my goodness, I’m glad I did it, and now it’s easy to enter a new item here & there as they come into my craft room so that everything is consistently searchable. May not be everyone’s cup of tea, but it sure is mine.

I’ve used it for my digital supplies, too, but I don’t have very many of them compared to an actual digi scrapper (I just use mine for print and cut stuff).

As to photos, I don’t know if this will help anyone, but if an item isn’t scannable and I’m entering manually —and that’s how I’ve done any digital items —I just save a photo or multiple photos in my phone or iPad’s photos before going into the app, then the app will let me click the camera and choose from my pics, and it can do a single pic or multi.

I don’t know if there’s a limit as to how many, but I’ve definitely used at least 4 before, because sometimes I like to add pics of projects or combos with it so I can remind myself how something can be used different ways when the time comes for a card or layout.

Looking at the app store now it seems to be free with in-app purchases...what kinds of purchases and what's the price range?

I have been using it for a couple years. I have not invested the time necessary to love it, but I do like it and everything I have done so far. Shakti its free for 30 days , but after the 30 days you will not be able to add new items (you keep access to what you have already entered though).For the premium subscription there is a monthly fee of 1.49 or 14.99 annual.

I tried it when it first came out and I thought it was limited versus what I could do with Evernote (free version). So I continued with Evernote. Now I'm too invested in Evernote to switch.

I also have a list (although no photos or tags) on on Excel in case EN fails.

For me the tagging is key. As I added more and more items, I found it is important to add as many tags as possible for cross referencing by any category the item may fit, but to also keep tags as consistent as possible. I don’t tag manufacturer or type, because those are already sortable. I primarily use CML for non consumables: stamps, dies, embossing folders, ink pads, etc. I include stamp sentiments in my tags so I can find every set with sympathy, encouragement, etc. I also love that it goes shopping with me so I can easily check my inventory before I buy. I get lots of use out of CML. Definitely worth the time I put in.