Labels

Printed QR stickers for boxes, and what happens when you scan one.

Labels makes printed QR stickers. Stick one on a box; scan it with any phone camera to see what's inside.

The order it's meant to go in

  1. Mint some. Choose how many (up to 60) and press Mint them. They start blank — pointing at nothing.
  2. Print a sheet. The sheet is laid out for Avery L7160 labels, 21 to an A4 page. Print at 100% (not "fit to page"). There's an option for cut lines if you're printing on plain paper.
  3. Stick them on whatever needs one.
  4. Scan each one with the phone's camera. A blank label asks what it's on: a new place (the usual answer — name the box), an existing place, or a thing.

After that, scanning the label opens the box's page: everything in it, and everything in anything inside it.

Good to know

  • Each label has a six-character code printed under the QR, like 7K2-P9X. You can type the code wherever a place is asked for, including to the Rummager — "put it in 7K2P9X" is unambiguous.
  • One label per box. Pointing a label at something else moves it.
  • Blank it unhooks a label from what it's on. Deleting a place blanks its label too, since the sticker is still on the box.
  • Somebody outside your space who scans one of your labels sees "not found", exactly as if the code didn't exist.