When I started calling, I was using 3x5 index cards; copied those onto 5x7 index cards; bought a PC & transferred those to index cards on my computer; bought a laptop & transferred those to index cards on my laptop; starting hauling that laptop to dances (and a table to set it on); put a few handy dances in the notes section of my cell phone; got tired of hauling that laptop & table around; now back to carrying index cards again (but what if the room fills up with beginners and they can't dance to the program I brought that night?); so now I've set up a few pages containing tables of dances [I can get up to 16 contra dances per page using tables] that stay in my purse wherever I go - tables include: "easy contras" (2-3 pages), "favorite contras," (limit myself to only 5 pages worth), "circles" (2 pages), "squares" (several pages), and "other" (3-4 pages). Bulky in my purse? Somewhat, but at least I have dances with me at all times in case a random dance breaks out somewhere, and now I'm prepared for that busload of beginners to show up 1/2 through a regular dance I might be calling somewhere. Ahhh technology.
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 3:19 AM, Will Kruse <[email protected]> wrote: > To those who have explore technological options for organizing your > dances, what have you come up with? I'm starting to see more laptops, > PDAs, tablets, and smartphones* at dances so does anyone know how > that's working? What software are you using? > > Will > > * At an open mic session last weekend a friend decided to call at the > last minute and pulled the dance up on his smartphone. I was > tremendously tempted to pull out my phone and call him when I dropped > out at the bottom of the set. I resisted the urge :-) > _______________________________________________ > Callers mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers > -- *Looking forward, Linda S. Mrosko 7302 CR 2829 Mabank, Texas 75156 (903) 451-5535 (H) (903) 288-4401 (cell) www.towerwebsites.com/dancinglinda *"We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once." -- Friedrich Nietzsche
