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Do you ever get tired of looking for stuff? It is so freaking draining emotionally, psychologically and sometimes physically. The worst part of it is the frustration you have with yourself for misplacing the phone for the 43rd time in one day.

I calculated once that I spent about 75% of my day looking for something. Whether it be my car keys, my phone, a file on my computer, my head – it seems as if I am constantly looking for something. I must admit at times it got so frustrating that I thought it might be easier to just jump off of a cliff that have to look for my phone again.

For a while, I just refused to look for anything. If I needed it, it was just going to have to wait until I found it. Or, if it were an common household object I’d just go to the store and buy another one. The cost of a 9th hammer is so much less than the frustration of having to look for one that I already have.

Those of us with this problem – the inability of our hand to let our brains know where it has set something down – know and feel this frustration daily.

For years I have been coming up with ideas in my head about things that could help – software on my phone that could keep track of what I had an where it was, Alexa skills, Siri reminders. I just couldn’t seem to get it. I had some great ideas of software if only someone could build it. I didn’t have the money to pay someone to do it, and my lame attempts at trying to do it myself were just…..well lame. You know the drill – try something new, get frustrated, forget what you’ve done, forget that you were doing it in the first place, move on to something else.`

There have been two extremely significant pieces of technology that have dramatically changed my life for the better – Apple AirTags and Tile – both are bluetooth trackers that you can connect to your keys, put in your bag, stuff in your wallet, or glue to your head. They communicate with your phone and when you lose them, you can make them emit a noise and direct you to their location. They have saved my ass more times that I can count.

Another thing I’ve always wanted to have is an inventory of my items – not only so I know what I have, but also to look up where it. is located. I also vowed to have an inventory together for insurance purposes the last time I had a little fire but had no records for. the items that burned. I’ve tried creating spreadsheets, FileMaker Pro databases, airtable bases – I’m really good at creating containers for my stuff but when it came right down to it, nothing was easy enough for me to want to use it. I mean getting the camera, taking a picture, looking up models from brand names, trying to find the receipt – it just wasn’t happening.

Now all of that is changing. I’ve discovered Claude Code and Codex who can now bridge the gap between an awesome design in the head and a finished software product that i actually want to use.

And so I am proud to introduce the outcome of my AI Coding experiment –

Where the F? Personal Inventory!

Where the F? is a mobile app that takes all of the pain out of building and maintaining a list of your personal belongings and their locations and value.

All it takes is a simple click from your phone’s camera and then the magic happens – the app identifies the object in the picture and creates an inventory item automatically for you! Not only will it find out what it is, it can also identify Brand, model, and sometimes estimated cost/value and enter that as well – the more pictures you take of the object, the more information you get back. It can:

• Track serial numbers
• Store location and a sub-location
• Record purchase information like vendor, location and cost.
• Run reports that are grouped, sorted and filtered as you like
• Categorize and tag like items automatically

And as if that wasn’t enough, there is also the companion browser extension that will detect when you are on the checkout page of your favorite online