• @Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe
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    127 days ago

    There’s also the insurance angle.

    Heaven forbid you have a fire or flood from a water line break. Insurance companies aren’t your friend and will shaft you if they can - I’ve seen it happen with friends.

    So now I have an inventory (and pictures). I have about 4x the stuff in my place than the average person in a house this size, so the defaults from insurance would make me lose lots of money. Once they see an exported spreadsheet with counts and dates (plus the pictures), they’ll cut a check and not argue.

    Plus the inventory helps me keep track of what I have so I don’t buy it again.

    • irmadlad
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      37 days ago

      So now I have an inventory (and pictures)

      So it will import associated pictures of equipment with a pic of the serial number? Cool

      • @Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe
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        36 days ago

        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.

        • irmadlad
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          26 days ago

          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.

      • @mierdabird@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        16 days ago

        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.