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Here’s a lifehack I picked up from this month’s Wired magazine: Use Flickr as a Home Asset Database.
A home asset system is a repository to store useful details about your stuff of value, for the sake of insurance and waranty claims. To use Flickr, or a similar photo-storage service:
- Take pictures of your stuff (car, computer, tv…), one item per pic (but maybe multiple pics per item).
- Upload the pictures, marking them private.
- Enter descriptions, including purchase date, purchase price, vendor/store, serial number, and any relevant specs.
- Tag them or group them in some way that will make them easy to find later, perhaps a “home asset” tag or a photoset.
- Keep a local copy of the photos and data. Possible options include Picasa, iPhoto, or a spreadsheet of file names and descriptions. Some of the Flickr tools built using the API will probably be helpful.
Since I had been trying to create an asset db, realizing that the ever-charming folks at Flickr had already done the heavy lifting was a weight off my shoulders.
— Sharon J Cichelli :: action
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Here’s a lifehack I picked up from this month’s Wired magazine: Use Flickr as a Home Asset Database.
A home asset system is a repository to store useful details about your stuff of value, for the sake of insurance and waranty claims. To use Flickr, or a similar photo-storage service:
- Take pictures of your stuff (car, computer, tv…), one item per pic (but maybe multiple pics per item).
- Upload the pictures, marking them private.
- Enter descriptions, including purchase date, purchase price, vendor/store, serial number, and any relevant specs.
- Tag them or group them in some way that will make them easy to find later, perhaps a “home asset” tag or a photoset.
- Keep a local copy of the photos and data. Possible options include Picasa, iPhoto, or a spreadsheet of file names and descriptions. Some of the Flickr tools built using the API will probably be helpful.
Since I had been trying to create an asset db, realizing that the ever-charming folks at Flickr had already done the heavy lifting was a weight off my shoulders.
— Sharon J Cichelli :: action
Commenting is closed for this article.
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