<aside> 💡 Why have you made TING?
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It's an inventory management system for the rest of us.
A simple and elegant way of keeping track of what's in your life, and making sure everything brings you value one way or another.
It was inspired by my parents' attic, annex, and spare room... the wonders of venturing through for hidden treasure. It was inspired by the household pictures admired more often when moved, the items bought twice by accident, and the perpetual reshuffling of our home library. "Somewhere in the house" was the answer, invariably, to
Hey, where's that...
Now, being able to recall the location of every item you own is far too mentally taxing and quite frankly a waste of time. This is information best outsourced to technology, so as to avoid cognitive overload. That, simply, is what TING does.
<aside> 💡 What makes TING useful?
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Other management systems exist, but aren't built for the average joe. From what we've seen, many are a repackaged enterprise app with a few features limited. They're built for keeping huge arrays of stock in great quantities. Possessions, however, are not merchandise. Merchandise is stored, but never used. This (hopefully) is not true of the things in your life. For the cases where it is, it can help you rehome them. This is conducive to a circular economy.
<aside> 💡 Ah, it's for home inventories, then?
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For a start. Because it's designed for everyday things, tracking sentiment and use, we hope it will be treated as a companion rather than an archive. TING, if used to its fullest extent, could be more than a logger for insurance purposes, it could be ANKI for stuff. A gentle recurring reminder to reconsider the objects in your life, and reassess their value to you.
So there are, broadly, two reasons why you'd want to use this app.