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Sometimes even that didn’t help, so it goes to the closest subcategory.Īnother method that came up involved: going to the local supermarket, scanning all the aisles, and listing every item. If there was an item that didn’t fit, I tried hardest to find out why: by researching its origin, use, and etymology. If the group grew two big I looked for common properties between objects and split it up. The method I used was the following: list generic words that represent physical objects and then use logic and sometimes common sense to group them together. This resulted in months of research to have a “Categorize Everything!” list of things. I chose this path because this way users don’t have to worry about creating their own categories. The types of stuff are dynamically “hardcoded” and managed on the developer side. … and it turned out to be the really good so far, because I didn’t have to change the core ever since. I started implementing the app with a basic, but flexible database schema:

I’m curious to see which of these pop up in reviews.

specialized fields (color, brand, price, …).

import/export from/to other apps (though there’s still ability to backup and share the full inventory).

I set my goals to include the features deemed most important to me: The user interfaces didn’t meet my expectations and some felt like it was done as a homework. They also lacked features important to me, one was able to put items into categories and the other was able to create hierarchies of items. I found a few of them, but they were mostly for legal reasons, so you have the item’s value in case of a sale or insurance claim I guess. I started looking at inventory apps in the Play Store.

This also includes when my mother asks: “Where did you put your X/Y item?”. So when I moved home I set out to inventory all my belongings in my room and in the shed, so next time I need something I can just simply look it up. I sometimes even buy the same thing because it is hidden in the depth of a drawer. Whatever if left behind becomes forgotten. I also experienced the same when I moved to the town I attended university and when I moved to London. As some weeks and months passed I totally forgot what stuff I have in London and where it is. Up until then I was living in London, UK where I left some stuff in storage.

The idea to create an inventory app came to me when I moved home to my parents in Hungary for a long vacation.