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That's one way to move your inventory
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It turns out that habit is quite a life hack.
I rarely (every 1-2 yrs) post personal content on any social media platform, otherwise just direct album shares with specific people. HOWEVER getting into the habit of just snapping pictures of stuff that might be useful later (or interesting, important, etc) has become an extremely flexible and low-effort form of documentation, journaling, note-taking, and CYA.
Examples:
It has just been an endlessly useful habit.
Also handy for things like "where was this plugged in?" And "what's that sticker I can't quite read on the back of this bulky thing I can't/don't want to move
Also, "where did I park in big parking areas (e.g., theme parks)?"
Yeah you're totally right about pictures as documentation. I do it a lot but you seem to be even better than I am. Curious -- do you have a good system for keeping pictures like that searchable or organized? That's my only issue with it, is that sometimes those can be hard to dig back through
I usually just lean on the local auto-tagging and OCR of the photo app, but sometimes if I take a pic that I suspect I’ll reference a lot, or just want it to be easy to find quickly even if I’m high or concussed or whatever, I’ll add a handful of likely keywords as custom tags.
My recommendation, however, is to favor delayed organization. While you may spend more time later digging to find the thing, it’s a good bet that (1) most things won’t need to be found i.e. most front-loaded effort would be wasted, (2) everything can actually still be found even if it occasionally takes a little longer, and (3) on-device image recognition and automatic cataloging tends to improve over time making everything more searchable retroactively.