Where Things Are: Inventory

Where Things Are is a record of what you own and where you keep it, so the answer to "where did I put the..." is a search rather than a hunt. THREE STEPS 1. Make a place — a drawer, a shelf, a cupboard, a room. 2. Put things in it, one at a time or by photographing the whole drawer. 3. Ask later. Search a word, and it tells you where the thing lives. PHOTOGRAPH A WHOLE DRAWER Point the camera at a junk drawer, a shelf, a dressing table. It comes back as a list of what is there — names, descriptions, quantities — and you tick what to keep. Twenty things filed in a minute instead of twenty separate entries. It also tells you what the photograph made hard to see. A list that admits what it missed is worth more than one that sounds certain. FILE THE LOT AT ONCE Scanned a drawer and left it unsorted? Pick several things and move them into a place in one step. Or let the app propose where…