What is worth cataloging on move-out day?
The things you would be sad to lose, and the things someone will later ask about. Instruments, a camera, the good coat, the childhood collection that is actually coming with you. Kitchen spoons can wait. The catalog is for the objects that need a name in the new place.
How do you keep the two addresses straight?
Add the new building in Your locations before the boxes leave, then move items as you pack them. What stays behind keeps the old room. What you take gets the new one. If you share the catalog with family, everyone sees the same split instead of arguing from memory.
- Scan a box as you tape it, and give the box its own place: New flat / Box 2.
- Photograph serials on electronics and instruments. Those numbers stay off public pages.
- Share a single item as a page when a parent asks "did you take the lamp?"
- When something is sold or gifted in the first months, mark the departure instead of deleting it.
A PDF of what you took is useful for a student-housing insurer or a roommate discussion. Export is Pro and Ultra. The catalog itself, the places, and sharing one item as a page stay free.
FAQ
Should I catalog what I leave at my parents' house?
If you still care about it, yes. Leave those items on the old building. You will know what is still there without opening the wardrobe from another city.
What if roommates want a list of shared stuff?
Catalog the shared pieces and share each as a page, or export a slice later. The catalog can hold "ours" in the notes.
Is this the same as a downsizing project?
Same tools, smaller pile. Downsizing walks a whole house. Move-out walks what is coming with you.
