Putting items in a box
Items live inside boxes. The relationship is bidirectional — you can manage it from the item or from the box. Both update the same data.
Method 1 — From the box
The faster way when you're packing one box and want to add many items at once.
- Open the box's edit page.
- Scroll to the Items in this box fieldset. You'll see a checkbox list of every item in your account.
- Tick the items that are in this box.
- Hit Save.
The picker has three controls:
- Select all — ticks every visible row. Combined with the filter, this lets you do "tick all my electronics" in one click.
- Clear — unticks everything.
- Filter — type-as-you-go filter on item title, brand, and model. Hides non-matching rows. Useful when you have hundreds of items.
A (N selected) counter in the legend updates live as you tick.
Items already in another box
If an item shows the warning ⚠ currently in box: X, ticking it here will move it from that other box to this one. Untick to leave it where it is. There's no way to put one item in two boxes — items have one box_id at a time.
Items you DON'T tick
If an item that was previously in this box is unticked, saving will remove it from the box (set its box_id to NULL). The item itself isn't deleted; it just stops being associated with this box.
Method 2 — From the item
When you're cataloguing one item that's going into a known box.
- On the item's edit page, find the In box dropdown.
- Pick a box from the list, or — None — to remove from any box.
- Save.
Which to use
- Method 1 (box) when you're packing/unpacking and dealing with many items at once.
- Method 2 (item) when you're adding one item.
- Bulk-move from items list when you want to move several items between boxes — see Bulk-moving items.
A common gotcha
A new user once asked: "I added 20 items to a box from the box's edit page. They saved. But when I look at the items list, the items show no box." This usually means the form didn't actually submit — they navigated away before clicking Save, or hit a validation error and missed the message at the top. Check the box's view page — it shows the live items-in-box list, which is the source of truth.
What's NOT supported
- A box inside another box. If you have a box inside a box, model it as one box with everything inside. Or as two separate boxes at the same location with descriptions explaining the relationship.
- An item in two boxes. Each item has one
box_id. If you really need to share, model it as two items. - Moving an item from a closet to a box without un-closeting it first. When you set
box_id, the item stays in its closet too. If that's wrong, edit the item and set the closet to — None —.