Random Things: Stuff You Own

How many things do you own? Most people have no idea. Random Things answers it. Photograph something — a jacket, a charger, a pair of boots. The background dissolves away, the object is recognised and named, and it's filed into a category. No forms, no typing, no barcode hunting. Just point the camera at a thing. Then the number goes up. THE COUNT IS THE POINT Other apps in this category help you prove what you own to an insurer. Receipts, serial numbers, replacement values, claims. It's admin, and nobody opens it twice. Random Things is a mirror instead. The first thing on screen is how many things you own, broken down by what they are — how much of it is electronics, how much is clothes, how much arrived just this month. Watching that number climb is a different experience from filling in a spreadsheet. PHOTOGRAPH, DON'T TYPE Cataloguing possessions is tedious, so the app does the…