Locations is where you describe where things are kept. "Places" and "locations" mean the same thing.
You rarely need this page
Places are made as you stash things: type "garage > rack > box 3" into Where is it? and whatever doesn't exist yet appears. This page is for looking at the whole tree, and for tidying it — renaming, moving, aliases.
Places nest
Start with rooms, then put shelves, drawers and boxes inside them. Everywhere in the app a place is written as its full path — "Garage > Rack > Shelf 3" — so two boxes called "Box 3" in different rooms are never confused.
Places and containers
Every location is one of two kinds:
- place
- Somewhere that stays put: a room, a shelf, a cupboard.
- container
- Something that moves: a box, a crate, a bag. Moving it moves everything inside it, because the things are in the box, not on the shelf.
When a place is created for you (from a photo, or by the Rummager) the kind is guessed from the name — "box" is a container, "shelf" is a place. If it guessed wrong, change it on the place's own page, next to its path.
A place's own page
- Stored here
- Things kept directly in this place.
- Somewhere inside
- Things in places inside this one, with where exactly.
- Inside
- The places directly inside this one.
- Also called
- Aliases: other names that should find it. Add "attic" to "Loft" and both words work, for the Rummager as well as for you.
- Move
- Puts this place, and everything in it, inside somewhere else.
Deleting a place
A place can only be deleted once it's empty — no things and no places inside it. Move them out first. That's so a delete can always be undone cleanly.