Which brings us to Collectify Home Inventory, a $50 program for Windows that you can download and try out for 30 days without obligation. On a touch screen, it is maddening.īetter, I thought, to stick with home inventory software for full-size PCs. Typing in the make, model, price and other data for all your goods would be a hassle on a regular keyboard. An app that loses track of your home inventory isn’t a very good way to keep track of your home inventory. When I loaded it back up, it sometimes forgot some stuff I had already entered. I tried to type in descriptions of my items, but the app crashed several times. The first app, a $4.99 iPhone program called Home Inventory, made by Gotta Have It Software, was buggy. Let’s start with the software I liked least: home inventory apps for the iPhone and iPad. It will also prove handy for insurance claims, and it will avoid the “spice rack” problem, where you end up with a half-dozen bottles of chili pepper in the kitchen because you were always unsure if you had any.
Creating and maintaining an inventory might take a few weekends, but it will help you better understand what you own - a first step toward getting rid of unnecessary things, like those three extra copies of “The Great Gatsby.”Īnd if you have only one copy of “Gatsby,” such a product will tell you where it is (bedroom closet? bookshelf in the den?). In other words, not me.īut if you are a neat freak - if you look forward to cleaning your closets on weekends, or rejoice at the prospect of alphabetizing your DVDs - then consider investing in a good home inventory manager. Unfortunately, even the best ones require some work - too much work, I imagine, for all but the most organized people. There are lots of bad, a few so-so, and some great computer programs to help you create an inventory. But that’s not really my style I’m a materialist to the core. Ascetic readers would advise us to pare down, to lead simple, joyful, stuff-free lives. At any moment there are several phones, computers, video game systems and other small electronics strewn around the floor of my home office, and many more in every other part of the house.Īs if that weren’t enough stuff, my family has too many other things: I’m a sucker for cooking equipment, my wife’s stash of yarn keeps the world’s shepherds in business (she’s a knitter), we both buy more books than we can read, and our baby is constantly showered with toys and clothes. Technology companies are always sending me gadgets to evaluate it’s my job to catalog everything that arrives, keep notes on how I use the products, maintain the packing materials and manuals, and then send it all back. It’s just that I’m a tech reviewer, and sometimes that amounts to the same thing. HONESTLY, I didn’t set out to be a hoarder.
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