Sketchy Food Tracker

Via Tobin, i decided to check out Balsamiq Mockups.  Wow.  This tool is frickin awesome.

Food Tracker

As part of starting a cross fit program, I'm tracking(trying to anyway), I want to get better at tracking what I eat.  Since I suck at coming up sample project ideas, i figured that a food tracking app would be a good way to play around with ASP.NET MVC and MonoRail as a sample application.  I had come up with a sketch of the input form this weekend, but this morning the one I did with Balsamiq's online tool came out WAY better.  Check out the sketch:

The tools is surprisingly fun to use.  There are a ton of controls to pick from and anything you choose you can customize the text and data.

The grid in my sketch was a snap to set up, drag a grid, type in what you want for the header text, and a few rows beneath and you're done.

The designer also hasguidelines, so when you drag a control, similar to Visual Studio's WinForm designer, you get the vertical and horizontal guidelines that help you make stuff look good.

Anyway, if you have drawn diagrams of screen layouts before on paper, it's worth takin a look at.