The Palms Commons

Keeping up with Indian Palms means checking a half dozen different places, and none of them talk to each other. Association notices go on one website. Events go somewhere else, or nowhere. The club posts its lineup and its menus as pictures, so the date and the band and Tuesday's special exist only as pixels and no search will ever find them. Half the time you hear about something days after it happened, from a neighbor, in a parking lot. The Palms Commons puts all of it in one list, in date order. WHAT'S IN IT Association notices, gathered as they're published, so you don't have to remember to go look. When more than one association posts about the same thing, such as a gate closure or a festival weekend, their notices arrive as one story, with each association's original a tap away. Events, including the ones that only ever existed as a poster. The app reads the picture and turns it…