Ann's House Inventory
Target Users: Ann and Peter
Ann would like to have a system for managing her personal inventory -- what she owns, what lives where, and what needs to be moved when they move house in the spring and fall. She is currently managing this using paper lists that she is writing up twice a year.
Interview Notes
The primary Model here is "Item". More or less everything in this Space is an Item.
The most interesting aspects of all of this is that there is a strong use case here for hierarchical tags. Each Item should have two of these:
- Location. At the top level, this is "Maryland", "Florida" or "Boat". But under each of those there is a Room, and under each of those is typically a shelf or closet.
- Kind. At the top level, this is things like "Financial Papers", "Clothing" or "Jewelry". But under "Clothing" might be "Dresses", and under that might be "Long" or "Short", "Heavy" or "Light".
So this argues for a good hierarchical tag system, with good UI support for easy entry of those tags.
There should be an "In the Will" flag.
Photos are also useful, in at least some cases. (Not least, they help provide information for the Will.)
There should be an Yes/Maybe/No "Travels" flag. Yes means that it consistently goes back and forth between Maryland and Florida; No means it stays in place; Maybe means that it's a judgement call during each move. This should be used to generate easy-to-use displays when packing. Peter suggests that we also have an "In Transit" flag, which you flip on when something gets packed, and off when it gets unpacked.
(He also suggests using history for introspecting what has previously moved, as a starting point. That would be a very advanced feature, but in principle might be possible once History is in place.)
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