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InventoryDifferent - a system for managing, tracking, selling, and showing off your collection
Posted by: wottle on 2026-05-24 15:23:25 This is an amazing bit of work! I've been setting it up and playing with it this evening and it works almost perfectly. I've put in one bug report and a few feature suggestions on the GitHub repo, but they're very minor.. I'm looking forward to cataloging my collection with this! I have fixed the refresh issue after adding a new device. I know it used to work, so I must have broken it along the way. Working on the barcode scanner improvements you brought up now. I thought there was a better way of decoding Apple serial numbers, but it turns out it's not super easy. EveryMac must have a crazy system in place to do their lookups, but even EveryMac.com failed with many of my serial numbers. I think my lookup is pretty hit or miss, but it will at least attempt to identify the model if you scan a serial number not already tied to a device. Regardless, if it misses finding an existing saved device, it will allow you to add a blank device with the serial number pre-filled, or if it thinks it knows the device's model, it will profile with the values from the template. The other improvements may have to wait. I'm a week away from going on a 3 week trip overseas, so I'll have little time to tackle things and I don't want to start something big and potentially break something right before going MIA for 3 weeks. Appreciate the feedback! Keep the ideas coming!
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