Gurulib is an interesting site (not a download, just so you know) that helps you track your stuff. CDs, books, movies, and others can be tracked with Gurulib. The interface is a little primitive looking, but seems to function well, and displays titles and artwork for each nicely. It is ad-supported but for the most part, the ads stay at the top, out of the way. Defining different bookshelves is one of Gurulib's strengths, allowing you separate all your media and books by where they are on your actual shelves. the search doesn't care where the book or DVD is, it lets you search all at once which is handy. Usually I would setup some kind of elaborate system in PHP, but for those out for a quick and dirty stuff tracking system,
Gurulib may be worth a look. Too bad it doesn't keep track of downloads.
Tags: freeware, gurulib, homeinventory, homelibrarymanagement, ISBN
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Subscribe to commentsderrickJul 27th 2006 9:02AM
I'm not sure I get this. It's a site that let's you notate where your stuff is in your house so you can search the site later when you're looking for something? Why wouldn't you just look around? I'm not the most organized guy but I have to think that it'd be quicker to just look around.
gsarnoldJul 27th 2006 10:32AM
I'm not making accusations, but I find this concept a little bit troubling. How do we know the operators of the site aren't selling this information to thieves so they know where to look for the good stuff when they break into your house? They could even use one of those IP address geopraphical locater services log the ZIP code you access the web site from. Web 2.0, meet Thief 0.97beta.
GrimbusJul 28th 2006 11:16PM
This could be perfect for a situation like ours: Moving from a roomy Chicago apartment to a teeeny New York one, we took a lot of our useful and valuable stuff and split it between a couple of different parents' attics. All well and good for if we ever move somplace big enough to get -all- that stuff back, but in the meantime, when I wanted to get my hands on my extra cd album, I didn't even know which attic it was, and even then I had no idea which box it was in.
With this, I could just search for "cd album" and it would tell me: electronics misc box, emily's attic. Then I wouldn't have had to go buy a new one. Sure, it was under $3 thanks to an excellent sale at staples, but it burned me up to have to buy one when I knew I already had one. I just couldn't figure out where it was...
This sounds great. Better for storage situations like boxes, where the contents aren't very browsable, than on shelves, where they are.
Unless you've got such a media collection that you're considering the dewey decimal system.