Recipes, travel, moving, school, pets, parties, cars, work, home projects, emergencies, hobbies, and plenty of things I did not know needed a list until we started building them.
Each one is complete and ready to use. You open a list, click once, and every item is added to your own list in Valedo.
Start with dinner
Say you decide to cook Ukrainian borsch on Saturday.
Normally, you find a recipe, read through it, then start typing ingredients into your shopping list one by one.
Beef on the bone. Beets. Cabbage. Potatoes. Carrots. Onion. Tomato paste. Garlic. Bay leaf. Dill. Sour cream. Vinegar.
In Valedo, you open the borsch recipe and add it to your list. Every ingredient, including the amounts, goes directly onto the Grocery shopping list you already share with your wife.
She sees it on her phone.
You check what is already in the refrigerator and uncheck those items. What remains is what you need to buy.
Nobody copied anything. Nobody had to remember anything. Nothing got lost between the recipe and the store.
Then the lists start stacking
This is where the feature became more interesting to me.
Suppose you are having a Mexican BBQ on Sunday.
You add the carne asada recipe with the full marinade. Then salsa. Rice and beans. Then a grill supplies list with charcoal, foil pans, tongs, napkins, and ice.
All of it can go onto the same list as Saturday’s borsch.
Now one shopping trip covers the weekend.
You can share the list with your brother and give him check-only access. He picks up the ice and drinks, checks them off, and cannot accidentally delete half the menu.
A recipe stopped being something you read.
It became part of an actual plan.
Food is just the obvious example
You are moving in three weeks.
Add the moving checklist and you get boxes, tape, markers, bubble wrap, utility transfers, address changes, documents to update, and supplies for cleaning the old place.
Then add the new apartment setup list.
Two clicks and you have the starting point for the next three weeks.
Or a hurricane is approaching Florida.
Every season, people make another trip to the store and try to remember what they forgot during the last storm.
Water. Batteries. Flashlights. Cash. Medication refills. Power banks. Chargers. Important documents in a waterproof bag. Gas in the car.
Add the hurricane preparation list, share it with the family, and split the errands.
School starts Monday? Add the school list.
A puppy comes home Friday? Add the first-week puppy list with the crate, bowls, food, leash, chew toys, waste bags, and the vet appointment you should probably book before the puppy arrives.
Going camping for the first time? There is a list for that too.
The best lists may be for things you have never done
This is the part I find most useful.
If you have cooked borsch fifty times, you probably do not need anyone to tell you to buy beets.
But what if you are bringing home your first newborn?
What if you just got your first dog?
What if you are taking your first camping trip, moving into your first apartment, preparing for your first hurricane, or organizing a birthday party for twenty children?
The problem is not remembering your list.
You do not know what should be on the list yet.
A blank screen is terrible at solving that problem.
It basically says: Here is an empty box. Good luck.
A ready-made list gives you a starting point based on what the task actually requires.
You do not have to use everything.
Maybe the camping list has 20 items and you keep 12. It still did its job. You reviewed 20 things and decided what mattered instead of trying to invent those 12 from memory.
That is a very different way to use a list app.
Why we put all 2,050 lists on the web
I made two decisions before publishing them.
The first was to make the lists public.
You do not need a Valedo account to read them.
If someone searches for a borsch shopping list, first apartment checklist, hurricane preparation list, puppy supplies, or what to pack for a three-day camping trip, I want them to be able to find the list and use it.
If they want to save it, customize it, combine it with other lists, share it with family, or check things off together, that is where Valedo becomes useful.
I do not think someone should create an account just to discover whether a packing list is worth looking at.
Show the value first.
And this is just the first batch
There are now 2,050 ready-made lists in Valedo, and we are already working on the next big batch.
The goal is simple: whatever you are planning, buying, cooking, organizing, preparing for, or trying for the first time, there should be a useful list you can start with instead of building one from zero.
And when there isn’t one, you can still create your own.
Valedo is free. Download the app, find a list you need, add it with one click, and make it yours.
If you try one of the 2,050 lists and find something missing, tell me. That is exactly how the next version gets better.
