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DasFaultier @sh.itjust.works

10h ago

Looking for ... inventory management, I guess?

Hey everyone,

I'm looking for a system that:

I can self host
Is slim, because I don't have beefy hardware (Intel J5040, 32GB RAM, shared by all VMs/containers)
can be used to create an inventory of all the tech/hardware that I have in my house (not exclusively IT, I also wasn't to track things like warranty for my chainsaws and the like)
does take at least the device make/model, serial number (for insurance cases) and warranty dates
is not some kind of enterprise-how-many-items-of-this-article-do-i-have-in-stock-things, because that seems to be the only thing I seem to be able to find, and they neither match my use case nor do they seem to be lightweight enough.

... and honestly, I don't even know where to start looking. Do you guys have any recommendations?

Of course, I could just use a spreadsheet, but where's the fun in that?

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This might be an unpopular opinion/solution but even for two small size sister companies we are doing inventory in a version controlled markdown file 🫣
- a version controlled markdown file
  There's a lot of genius in this idea ...
- Not at all, I like .md, and I'm familiar with Git. A spreadsheet is not something that I would throw into Git, but an .md...
  
  That is the reason Markdown and Git are used for a lot shenanigans these days. Knowledge bases, awesome-lists, documentations. You name it.
  If you got the right tools (sphinx, typora, mkdocs, …obsidian) you got a powerful toolchain.
- Honestly, a spreadsheet would be fine for this? I'm not super familiar with what an inventory management system does tho, so maybe it does things beyond what a spreadsheet can do.
- Simplest possible solution, Occam's Inventory 😄
  I use markdown extensively, but I'm honestly not fond of its tables function (which I assume you use for this purpose?). It works, but it's a bit static in my experience. Do you run up against the same, or is it actually an advantage in your use case?
  
  We’re using headings for different types of inventory (hardware/office items/…) and then a block of subheading, bulletpoint combination (serialnumber, date of acquisition, whereabouts,…) for each item and associated item.
  The toc is generated automatically and helps browsing through.
  
  Even simpler, I love it! 👍
- Wut

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