That's nice. I suppose you could do the same by printing a bunch of UUIDs on QR codes and add the UUIDs to the respective location in the system.

What I'm doing is even easier. I use an X-Y coordinate system. I assign a letter to a storage unit, e.g. a Kallax is assigned "A". Then each bin horizontally is X and each bin vertically is Y in A:X:Y. Then fairly easily I can determine that the third bin on the second shelf is A:3:2. That's short enough to type in a search field. It's also easy enough to locate a shelf coming from A:X:Y. If the shelf has only one dimension, like a bunch of drawers, I use just one number. This system is fairly easy to learn and eliminates the need for physically tagging every bin or drawer. Doesn't work for unstructured storage, like boxes on the floor or other shameful things that we all have.

The worst case scenario is when you know you have something, you cannot find it after multiple raids, and you end up buying it again. Then of course you eventually find it during the course of doing something random.

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.

Those photos are only a just-in-case for insurance.

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.

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.

Homebox has this capability too, you can generate QR codes for assets and scan it later to identify whatever's inside.

Oh interesting, thanks for the information, I did poke around homeboxs documentation but didn't see anything mentioning QR codes where as ShelfNU has it as a main feature. Since I can't seem to get the latter up on unraid may have to givehome box a spin soon.

And if I don't it's because I've misplaced it, and the program isn't going to help with that

In that case it will help you with where it was supposed to be

God forbid the poor insurance dude getting the whole list of damaged items

This.

This is such an American bourgeois problem.

Imagine needing a list to know what you own.