How technology can ensure you never lose your keys or passport ever again
- New apps let you photo and log your house contents, find a book, bottle of wine, best shoes – and manage your finances
- One estimate claims we waste a year of our lives looking for things we mislay so a virtual inventory may be solution
No matter how well organised one’s life is – Marie Kondo, the-Japanese-organising-consultant-turned-Netflix-reality-television-star, being the possible exception – not everything seems to stay just where you left it.
Wallets, glasses and car keys have a habit of disappearing, and why is it that an important document you’d filed away so diligently is now proving stubbornly elusive?
Looking for lost things is not only frustrating, it’s also extremely time-consuming – a chore that, according to one American estimate, can account for a whole year of an average person’s life.
The bigger one’s home, the more places there are to store things. Even your helper can’t keep track of everything for you, especially those items you want to handle personally, such as sentimental scrapbooks or sensitive documentation.
Yet employing technology to keep your home orderly can make life easier for everyone. So, what are the ways that organisational apps and devices might spark, if not quite domestic joy, at least a sigh of relief?
Just want you’re looking for…
Creating a virtual inventory of your home’s contents is a great place to start.
