Absolutely agree, have been looking for something like this for a while now.

Did you build this yourself? Would love to know more if you’d be so kind to share.

Used to do similar things with Trello before the focus went all in on enterprise (getting acquired by Atlassian will do that).

Here's the repo, I've just added a demo video to the readme:

https://github.com/tim-fan/hordor

I was learning Django when I wrote it, today you'd probably get further quicker vibe coding from scratch.

I have about 100 items in storage today, I intend to add more, would like to optimize the workflow as I scale up.

Going forward I'd like to add:

  * more optimized storage/retrieval flow. The overall goal for the project is to  minimize this friction, as far as possible
  * AI enrichment - generate descriptions, aid with search etc. I'd love to be able to query my storage "how can I connect this thing to this old speaker?" and the storage responds eg "you have this cable, this adaptor, plug that into this cable, etc"

I've seen a few related projects but can't find the links just now. There's some cool projects that store items in little trays each with an LED, when you request the item the LED blinks for rapid retrieval. The numbered bags I used are slower for retrieval but cheaper and easier to set up.

I do enjoy thinking about the different options and tradeoffs for cost and storage/retrieval time. Also tradeoffs between time and (physical) space.

edit: formatting

Thank you for sharing this.

There’s need and there’s want I suppose.

My oldest computer book I won’t part with is Alan Simpson’s dBase III+ Programmer's reference guide, circa 1987. This book was transformative and allowed me to get a gig as a coder, so much self driven practice on a crappy underpowered generic clone PC. That crappy hardware was an advantage I didn’t see at the time, having to think about routines that were fast enough based not because of faster disks and tons of RAM.

Do I need this book? Not so much. But it brings me joy carefully flipping through it on occasion.

Glad I'm not the only lunatic who would do something like this. At least until I got my paws on dBASE.

I worked with somebody with your name in the early 90s on a Sequent/Dynix system, that wasn't you by chance was it?

Nope. Not me.

Skimming this and thoroughly enjoying it, back in the mid to late 80s I worked in London's phototypesetting industry mostly serving ad agencies and others who needed high quality, quick turnaround type. I didn't work with Monotype, all Berthold, but it looks like they were all in a similar place.

Check out the Cold Type section on this page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berthold_Type_Foundry#Cold_T... . What was fascinating about this is it wasn't laser produced type, it came from a serious of glass grids and prisms. Laser output at the time was awful and nowhere near production quality but this prism-based output could only scale from 4pt to 36pt(? or somewhere thereabouts). That said, because the type was photo perfect it could be put under a camera enlarger and blown up to over 96pt in the hands of a skilled operator.

More notable things, these machines couldn't set type on an angle so as you were composing you had to take into consideration giving the paste up artist enough dance room to work. Spell check? Nope.

The biggest one was it was all markup language and nobody really used visual rendering, you set it all in your head and sometimes you'd even get it right on the first try. There were visual rendering units but they were slow, inaccurate, and would _really_ slow you down in an industry where the faster you were the more money you made. This markup thinking made being creative with HTML tables a natural skill in '92 so it wasn't all for nothing.

The Mac finally got PageMaker, photo paper laser output became good enough, and the last Berthold machines I saw were Sun workstations where I got my first taste of Unix. Fancy expensive kit where the rendering was fast enough to be useful.

I turned this on as well and all I've had are a few false positives when running up stairs or similar. Good feature and id rather have to unlock occasionally than error the other way.

Like that there's no ads but it's a big no on the "data shared with third parties". Assuming this is how they make money? I'd rather wait 10 more mins for the bus I just missed.

Android here. Have you looked at the amount of data this shares with third parties? No ads but holy hell. No thanks.

The website has existed since at least 2010, so I guess they are aware and have considered this.

I had one of these and I think I bought it from Staples, Office Depot, or whatever the predecessor to this was. I can't remember the exact timing but I picked up an IBM Simon around the same time.

Both were half baked products that ended up in a drawer after a couple of weeks. The EO had lousy battery life and not as good as pen and paper for note taking which is why I wanted it.

I had various devices over that time frame which included the Palm Pilot, Sony Magic Link, all of the Newtons, a Sharp Zaurus, and so on. The one that really stuck was the Psion MX5 as I could actually touch type on it.

The person who sent along the EOs also sent a Simon. I couldn't get that working either. Sigh.

If it's any consolation you're really not missing much!

Prodigy, haven't thought about that in a lot of years, thanks for the memory tickle. Even with the painted-with-bricks interface.

GEnie was another that was kind of fun. And I still can remember my CompuServe number!