I think it becomes more useful as you accumulate stuff - I get frustrated when my wife buys crap on Amazon that we already have. So while I don’t have the time or energy to sort everything in our house, I am beginning to catalogue things as we buy them in the hope it becomes more useful over time to find things we rarely use and/or avoid re-buying excess items
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 3 days ago
There’s also the insurance angle.
Heaven forbid you have a fire or flood from a water line break. Insurance companies aren’t your friend and will shaft you if they can - I’ve seen it happen with friends.
So now I have an inventory (and pictures). I have about 4x the stuff in my place than the average person in a house this size, so the defaults from insurance would make me lose lots of money. Once they see an exported spreadsheet with counts and dates (plus the pictures), they’ll cut a check and not argue.
Plus the inventory helps me keep track of what I have so I don’t buy it again.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
God forbid the poor insurance dude getting the whole list of damaged items ;)
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irmadlad@lemmy.world 3 days ago
So it will import associated pictures of equipment with a pic of the serial number? Cool
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 2 days ago
Nah, it’s 2 different things.
I could add pictures in the shopping list app, I just don’t want them there.
Instead I slowly took pictures of everything I own. And when something new comes in, I take a pic of that. I have a folder for inventory photos.
Those photos are only a just-in-case for insurance.
irmadlad@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Cool. The insurance angle has helped me on a couple of occasions. Had a piece of farm equipment disappear. Had all the surveillance replete with photos of the equipment and snapshots of serial numbers. The process was rather painless with all of that. I highly recommend people go through at least once a year and take a digital inventory, especially big ticket items.
mierdabird@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
The current version does have the ability to create QR codes for your assets and scan them later for identification, but I don’t know of a way to scan a new item and identify it automatically.