Android/iOS: My boyfriend and I live in a two-bedroom apartment with exactly two, exceptionally small closets. The closest are big enough to hold our clothes, but when it comes to other things that one might put in a closet, that stuff is stashed all over our house.
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At least once a week I have a “Where did X go?” moment, and we spend a bit of time searching through our storage spots, and eventually the garage downstairs (which honestly is where a lot of our stuff is), until we manage to find it. Sortly is an app that’s meant to help make that search a bit easier.
With the app, you snap a picture of what you’re storing and where, and then you can search for it later on. It isn’t a replacement for keeping things organised, just a way to streamline remembering where you organised those things.
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You’re obviously not going to use this to organise your whole house, but for certain things, it can be pretty useful. For instance, if you have a decent whiskey collection but only want to keep a few bottles out in the open, you can store the others in a closet but still have easy access to know what you have and where it is. Or if you need to keep track of clothing for a different season, or that kitchen appliance you only need to pull out around Christmas… think things you definitely want to store, but also could use quick access to.
The app is free for up to 100 items. If you need to track more than that, a subscription to the service is $7.49 per month on iOS, $6.99 on Android.
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2 responses to “Remember Where You Stored Things With Sortly”
Evenote will do the same. Just open a new notebook, and then new note for each item. Probably cheaper than this.
Man, 7 dollars (probably US so more) to catalogue some stuff. I get your need to pay for hosting etc but that seems excessive consider I pay around that for a fully fledged email service/app ecosystem plus calendar.
Looking into it, you can use QR codes to labels boxes and such. It looks their money maker is business asset management. I assume that the personal level just subsidises their business plans.
Not quite as comprehensive, but Google Home will remember stuff for you, including where you stored something.
https://support.google.com/googlehome/answer/7536723?hl=en