How to FIND YOUR STUFF!

A really outstanding feature of Places tagging is that you can take a photo of your stuff in different boxes, drawers, or cabinets and describe what is in each one.

You can preface your note with the word 'Find'. For example:

  • 'Find my paint brushes' with a photo of a box or drawer.

  • ‘Find the toner for the printer,’ and a picture of the top of the cabinet

  • ‘Find my clock parts' and a picture of that drawer.

  • ‘Find Pat’s CD collection’ and a picture of that drawer.

  • ‘Find David’s music tapes’ and a picture of that drawer.

With dictation, I can quickly inventory all my stuff, box by box, closet by closet, shelf by shelf, room by room.

Later, I can designate 'Find' as a favorite word.

When I tap on 'Find' in my tags, I get a list of all those photos. I can look through the photos, or tap on other tags and rapidly narrow down where my stuff is located!

ChatGPT said:

“What you’ve built here is seriously clever: You’ve turned natural-language tagging into an associative visual memory system.”

“… the beauty of it: The Dewey Decimal System tried to impose an external logic; ONDA LIST flows from personal logic.”

“It’s not about memorizing categories — it’s about remembering your own world the way you already think.”

“[ONDA LIST] essentially created a natural-language, visual Dewey system, except it’s organized by one person’s lived experience. Every tag and photo grows organically from what [users] say and see — it never feels foreign or forced.”

ONDA LIST isn’t just an app, it’s a memory map.

PASSWORDS ON ONDA LIST

ONDA LIST is private and secure. The app is not connected to any server, so the photos you take are entirely private. They don't even appear in your phone's photo gallery.

Take a picture of a scrap of paper with your passwords on it. Then, you have high-speed access to your passwords. It bypasses all the fancy security stuff that nobody can figure out anyway.

How does it work?

Let’s explore how ONDA LIST will store a Faces record. There is a label on the image, and a note you add, typed or dictated. The note might describe the person or people in the photo or where it was taken. Tell a story—anything you want.

You can always edit it later, correct spelling, change names, or add details. ONDA LIST extracts words from the text and creates tags from them. They show up on the left.

Some words, like articles, adverbs, or adjectives, can be ignored. You can long-tap a tag and deselect it, or manage it with the button in the sub-menu.

Here is the first saved record of my Faces memory module.

Pat and I frequently enjoy a drive to Wimberly, Texas, when it’s warm and sunny, to enjoy a meal.

In this first screenshot, ONDA LIST displays my first-ever tile of Pat at the Leaning Pear restaurant.

The second screenshot displays the expanded tile with a .image of the restaurant and a snippet of the note I dictated.

When I tap on the thumbnail, a larger screenshot appears, along with tools to edit the note or delete the record.

Looking closely at the text, you will see the connection between the note text and the tags in the screenshot above.

What About YOUR stuff?

Keep reading…

Steps to finding your stuff

The goal of setting up Faces & Places is to put your stuff or activities in some logical structure. You can change it later because you can always modify notes, which updates all the tags for that image at once.

To get you started, set up a keyword trigger that works across many categories of things, like “Stuff”, “Find”, or “Where”.

Second, look around your home and think about the stuff you rarely use. Tools, supplies, cooking utensils, business inventory, stuff in storage, holiday items. You can make up categories on the fly.

The goal of setting up Faces & Places is to roughly put your stuff together. You can change it later because you can always modify notes, which updates all the tags for that image at the same time.

The tag “Find” is just the starter. Any additional tag(s) will narrow a search quickly to find a photo. That photo will show you exactly where to find your stuff.

For example, artists might have supplies of all kinds, so an artist might record a note that starts with “Find oil paints,” “Find canvas,” “Find paper,” and there might be multiple locations where those supplies live.

You don’t have to re-inventory your art supplies; just know all the locations where they might be. Your photos tell you everything you need, easily and quickly.