Home inventory made simple with a camera phone

Reader Colin Walker jokingly commented he expected to hear how I used the Tablet PC to inventory the stuff in my home during my current move.  He must have only been half joking because he knows me too well.    I am using a simple system to help get set up in the new house that involves my Treo and the HP tc1100 Tablet PC.  The first thing I am doing is taking pictures of each room to show not only what was in the room at the old house but also where it was placed.  Not that we want to duplicate every room but it is helpful to see how it was before when deciding on the new arrangement.  I take these pictures using the Palm Treo from within OneNote Mobile, and they get synced into my Tablet OneNote 2007 notebook when I connect the Treo wirelessly.

Once the photos are in OneNote I am using ink notes on the Tablet to note anything I think will be helpful, like outlet requirements for some equipment.  I can note that a lamp has a particularly short power cord so we can consider that for the placement in the new house.  This has been working great so far and it’s so simple to do, and much easier than creating an entire inventory by hand.  So there, Colin. 

Comments

[Colin Walker]

Just as I expected :)

Thanks for the explanation.

[Micheal]

You are the biggest geek I know jk. ;) I would have never thought to do that in a move. I just might do it! :D