Tell me there's something better for this than the iPad...

[Zouji]

Well you could get them started by buying them a notebook, legal pad, or even a folder. Put some colored page dividers or clip on page dividers in or on the thing and make sure you can put labels on the dividers. This will help them get started so that way they can do it mostly on their own. But if they are as unorganized as you say they are then they most defiantly will need at least some form of help to get them started.

You could just divide up all the numbers into

1)Emergency Numbers
2)Family
3)Friends
4) Various repair/construction companies
5) Others who may do work for them
6) Business associates of theirs
7) Food places/take out, barber/salon number, any other retail services that do not fall under 4 or 5
8)Organizations they may belong to. [(church, axe murderer club) You know the usual community groups)]
9) Miscellaneous numbers that do not fall into any other broad category (Diggles's gay porn phone sex lines, secret underground midget tossing events, etc...)


Also you may want to consider buying them a magic jack too if they make a lot of long distance calls. All you need is a phone, a computer with a usb port, and a high speed internet connection. Doesn't really matter what speed the connection is cause I doubt they stream any torrents or watch movies online. Also their is nothing fancy to it. You will probably have to set it up for them because I doubt they know what a usb port is. But, once you set it up they can give you a phone number in whatever area code you want. The program loads on its own when the computer starts up. So as long as the cord stays plugged in, their internet has to be working, and their computer has to be on; then the phone will work. I got one because I only had a cell phone (as my only phone) with prepaid minuets on it and my friends kept eating up my minutes. I got I believed it was a 5 year plan for $60 I think. Might have been for 4 .

Plus you can program the phone numbers in the magic jack phone list and all they have to do is click on the phone number and it dials it. I think that's how it works. I've never done that myself since I have all of my phone numbers in a txt file on my computer.

That brings me to another suggestion. If they know how to create and open a .txt document then they could just leave all of those numbers on a list in the computer. That's what I do.