collecting app

Well some things like original NES games there are actual apps that will allow you to rate condition and provide a checklist of titles. Otherwise I would just use whatever generic spreadsheet software like excell.

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Some people like to keep track of purchase price, date, and location as well as other info. If you are carrying a phone anyway, why not?

I realise some people are just against technology, but if you have a phone that does the same exact thing the computer your tapping on, plus a lot more, it can be fairly handy and convenient.
 
There are a number of "home inventory" apps available that might work well (ie, provide the amount of detail you'd like) for a collection. I don't have experience with any of them, but am hoping to choose one myself sometime soon, for insurance purposes.

Having an actual inventory of one's possessions (instead of a vague and/or idiosyncratic idea), backed up off-site (whether in "the cloud" or otherwise), can be very helpful in the event of theft, disaster, or other unforeseen loss.

~ P.
 
I just use good old Excel and sync it across my PCs, iPhone, iPad, etc via Documents To Go. I keep track of all my online purchases, music collection (Vinyl, cassette, CD), movie collection (Beta, VHS, DVD and Bluray).
 
I don't manage my (knife) collection digitally, but I do use the online applications that Google provides. Mainly their word processor and spreadsheet applications. I use it only for non-sensitive information though. There are mobile apps that enable you to use your online stored documents made with these Google tools.
 
I built an app for my Mac. It would be easy to transfer over to the iPhone. I thought it would be cool to make it Busse & Kin only, that way, with consent, I could automatically fill in the specs, price, value, and other info, such as historical data, into the all, so that it's all there when you add your new MOAB. Another feature that I thought of when made the Mac app was to allow you to track where you got it, what you paid, and if you decide to sell it, it could auto generate a narrative that you can just copy and paste into the thread or other app you want to sell it in and record where you sold it and for how much

It'll end up looking a lot like Nest 'Egg, a great home inventory app, but will have fields geared towards knives and a prefix led database of models.

Right now, I'm in the business of making money to get my 25 acres th a beautiful home and get out of this god awful city. Perhaps before I start building the app that my fiancé and I came up with, I'll do a quick Busse collectors app and offer it to you all for free (of course I'll take any hand-outs :D that any of you Hogs have to offer ;) even something as small as a Hog Bead would be cool.)

Here's what Nest Egg looks like:

You can first select a category to view just blades in that category, or All to view all (in the Busse App, I can think of a lot used for categories. EDCs, Camp Knives, Choppers, Machetes, etc. (although, I will probably make those choices in the app anyways.) but the category list is totally customizable, as are most drop down lists in the app.
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Then you see All of the info about the blade and can edit it.
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The sky is the limit with this app. Letting you customize categories, locations, etc., also allows you to run stats and charts on them. You could run a report that shows how many safe queens you have in your safe, or whatever.

I've thought about this app for a very long time, and would someday like to make an app for all knife collectors that has specs and other info about each model. The headache of creating this database and finding a way to keep it up-to-date manually made my stomach churn, so I shelved the idea.

If there's enough of us that wants a Busse Inventory App, please let me know!
 
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Count of hands of how many people want me of do this?

It'll take me a little while, since it's been 3 years since I made an iPhone app, but I can at least get a decent alpha version out fairly soon since some of the code and the database schema is already done in the Mac App.

I need some people who want it first. It'll be free for you Hogs of course.
 
I don't want the data on my iPhone... I want access to it via an app on my iPhone.

Take a look at an iPhone app called Cor.Kz. It's for managing and cataloging wine cellars. But all it is is a UI to access data stored "in the cloud" on cellartracker.com. This allows me to browse my cellar from anywhere (well, anywhere with cell coverage). But, if I loose my phone or it's destroyed, my cellar inventory is safe in the cloud. Also, while having access on my phone is great, there are just tasks that aren't well-done on the iPhone; moving wine around in a cellar can get complicated and is best done on a large screen with a keyboard and mouse. So, log on to your account at cellarTracker.com and you have that rich UI... plus the ability to print things and to download your data in a variety of formats to store on a CD as a backup.

Here is another feature of cellartracker that you ought to copy: if someone has already entered a cuvée, all I need to do is enter the vineyard and vintage and then select the specific cuvée from a short menu and all of the data that have already been entered are available to me. I often add wine to my cellar with just ten or twelve keystrokes. The same think can be done with knives. If someone has already entered all of the data about -- say, for example -- the Benchmade Model 45, I shouldn't have to re-enter it. Leverage crowd-sourcing.

So, I encourage you to look at Cor.kz and cellartracker.com as models.
 
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I don't want the data on my iPhone... I want access to it via an app on my iPhone.

Take a look at an iPhone app called Cor.Kz. It's for managing and cataloging wine cellars. But all it is is a UI to access data stored "in the cloud" on cellartracker.com. This allows me to browse my cellar from anywhere (well, anywhere with cell coverage). But, if I loose my phone or it's destroyed, my cellar inventory is safe in the cloud. Also, while having access on my phone is great, there are just tasks that aren't well-done on the iPhone; moving wine around in a cellar can get complicated and is best done on a large screen with a keyboard and mouse. So, log on to your account at cellarTracker.com and you have that rich UI... plus the ability to print things and to download your data in a variety of formats to store on a CD as a backup.

Here is another feature of cellartracker that you ought to copy: if someone has already entered a cuvée, all I need to do is enter the vineyard and vintage and then select the specific cuvée from a short menu and all of the data that have already been entered are available to me. I often add wine to my cellar with just ten or twelve keystrokes. The same think can be done with knives. If someone has already entered all of the data about -- say, for example -- the Benchmade Model 45, I shouldn't have to re-enter it. Leverage crowd-sourcing.

So, I encourage you to look at Cor.kz and cellartracker.com as models.
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Your suggestion is really good and I totally understand it, but I don't have the time and / or money to build an app that syncs to the cloud. Cloud based apps are wonderful. I don't need to look Cor.kz (all though I will) to understand how great they are. They give you the peace of mind of knowing that your data is safe and they give you your data everywhere.

Your phone does back up its data every time you connect it to your computer. I recently lost my phone and when I went to buy another, I was upset because I thought my Nest Egg data would be gone. I was really happy to see that I had recently backed up my phone and restored from my most recent backup and all of my Nest Egg data was there!

Unless I get some funding for this app and make the scope larger than just Busse, I can't do cloud based storage.

Thanks again for the suggestion though.

I think I'll shelve this app, as there doesn't seem to be much interest in it. If there ever is, I can do it depending on what I'm working on at the time.
 
I use Collectorz for my comics. (I only collect the trades and graphic novels.) I love it. I have a phone app for it as well and it is immediately available when I go to conventions or stores and buy new books. They have a lot of different versions for different collections.
 
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