Locations
A location is a physical place. Locations sit at the top of your inventory tree — boxes belong to locations, closets belong to locations, and items can be at a location directly.
The four kinds
When you create a location you pick one of:
- Home — your house, apartment, or any address you live at.
- Self-storage unit — a rented storage unit at a facility.
- Safe-deposit box — a small secure box at a bank.
- Office — a workplace where you keep things.
- Other — anything that doesn't fit the above.
The kind only affects which icon shows on the location's card and how it's grouped in some lists. Everything else (boxes, items, photos) works the same way regardless of kind.
Creating a location
Go to Inventory → Locations, then + New location.
- Name — required. Whatever you'll recognize: Home, Mom's basement, Storage unit Hertogstraat 12, Office desk drawer.
- Kind — pick one of the five options.
- Notes — optional. Useful for things like the storage facility's address, the bank branch, the access code, or which floor of the office. (Notes are not encrypted, so don't put PIN codes here — see Privacy.)
Adding boxes to a location
After creating a location, the edit page shows a Boxes at this location multi-select. Tick the boxes that are at this location. Save.
Just like with items in a box, this is bidirectional — you can also pick the location from each box's edit page individually. Pick whichever is faster.
If a box is currently at a different location, ticking it here will move it. You'll see a ⚠ warning under the box's row showing which location it's currently at.
Locations and QR Labels
You don't usually need a QR Label on a location, because locations don't move. The cases where it's useful:
- A self-storage unit — stick the QR on the door so when you visit, scanning gives you the inventory of what's inside before you even open it.
- A safe-deposit box — same idea, the QR points to the contents list.
- An office desk drawer — useful in shared offices where colleagues might wonder what's in there.
For most people, Home is one location and never needs a QR.
Sharing a location
You can generate a 24-hour read-only share link for a location, which renders the box list and item count for the recipient without giving them access to your account. See Share links.
Encrypted private fields (serial numbers, purchase prices) are never included in shares. Photos are included.
Deleting a location
Deleting a location does NOT delete the boxes or items inside it — they stay in your account but lose their location association. This is intentional: deleting "Home" because you moved shouldn't delete everything you own. Reassign the boxes to your new location.
Multiple homes, multiple offices
Nothing stops you from having ten locations. The pricing tiers limit QR Labels and photos, not the number of locations.