Inventory storage products ?

Are things like the below worth using?

Thanks.

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Vancouver%20Island/89/144/28

Posting a slurl by itself isn't very helpful. People would have to go in-world and then find the device. Hopefully it's obvious, but most gadget stores will be selling several, so it could take some time. Plus, it can be perceived as advertising.

A better idea would be to post a description of what it does, e.g. from a notecard.

Those storage furniture things are cute, but they don't really do anything you can't do with the editor's contents tab and a plain old plywood box. I think I would find the "click, get a menu, chat the item you want" routine to be kind of tedious, but if you like its interface better than the standard editor, it looks harmless enough.

My all time favorite are the storage boxes from THinC. What I like most is they have two arrows on them that you can scroll back and forth between your contents and then from a drop down menu choose the item you want.

I have things I almost will never use but still want to keep in a simple plywood box, but it is more cumbersome to get a single item out of it.

Hippo has one someone suggested. I got the demo of it and it seemed more complicated than my trusty THinC storage boxes. I got the one where I can make unlimited copies of it and I make GOOD use of them. (I can demo mine next time I see you in world if you like. Keep an eye out for my elf as Czari is being retired.)

I have not found a need personally to use storage devices more complicated than the old plywood cube, and not much of that except for backups.

My most useful inventory storage methods are:

(1) Create a hierarchy of folders and subfolders by subject in my inventory.

You can even do that with your calling cards, and group them into "friends", "relatives", "enemies", "customers", or whatever. My favorite folder in that section is "useless", for idiots that friend me before saying hello, or other idiots. I quietly accept their card, put it in the useless folder, and purge those cards frequently.

(2) Rename items with descriptive names so I can use inventory search.

If a creator has named a piece of clothing "Autumn Rose", thats not as helpful as putting in "dark red formal dress" as part of the folder name, and filing it under the category of "clothing > women's > formals

If I use whatever words *I* think are important for the item, I am likely to use the same words the next time I look for it.

(3) Use alternate avatars to store overflow/backup copies/major categories

This alt, who does building, keeps the vast bulk of my texture collection (15,000 of them) unboxed in inventory, but another alt has boxed backups of my textures.

When inventories get too large, it can slow things down. Its never been clearly explained, but my best guess is the pointers to your inventory items get loaded when SL starts up. These pointers are the item name, and UUID, and some unknown amount of other data, so perhaps 100-500 bytes per item, if you have 10K items, thats a megabyte of data, so not so bad, but if you get much larger, it starts to impact your SL speed/memory usage

I bought a set of THiNC boxes a long time ago - they proved very useful after raiding Yadni's Junkyard

But........

There are a couple of products that are just as good if not better - and they are free

Go to Ordinal Malaprop's store in Caledon http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caledon/86/45/26

There is a freebie dispenser on a table on the right as you go in the door

The items you want (amongst some other very useful items) are

#16 Freebie giver v0.3 (with texture display)
#47 Simple freebie giver v0.24

A couple of really nice points about these

- Full Perm - so you can learn how they work
- Big Buttons

The Texture display version is particulary useful as it will display No Transfer and No Copy textures - something my normal texture organizer wont do. (I am often given sim route maps than are no-transfer)

Other invaluable items include a Grid Crash Protection Box (sic)

If you find these items useful please consider leaving a tip in her TipBox

Thanks everyone,

I still have under 3000 items, so speed isn't an issue as yet. I occasionally lose something due to my not yet perfected, one handed drag and drop method. usually the item is in an unintended folder, but sometimes it disappears completely, probably dropped in world.

What would be great is a text box app that lets you type in the destination folder and simply click on the item to move it. possibly a future project for me to work on.

Czari was such a nice avatar, I'll miss her. IM me as your elf self please, as I have forgotten her name and my contact list is filled with lady elves. LOL I'll try the item you suggested.

Thanks again.

Thanks Susie. Don't worry, I always tip when I find a great freebie.

I've found plain plywood boxes perfectly adequate. Just give them names - I call mine Invobox 1,2,3 etc. I don't keep the boxes in-world, but take them back to my inventory until I need them. But it cuts down the number of items in the inventory a lot as a box with 40 items in it only counts as 1 item.

I use simple plywood cubes that I color and keep in storage room of my house.

Each holds what seems like hundreds of my expensive copyable items (houses, vehicals, horses, skin, dragons avs etc)

The simple box method seems like the way to go for now. Thanks everybody.

The problem with all inventory organizers, whether fancy or a simple box -- you cannot drop folders in. This means that I have to first box my outfit and the put that box into the organizer/inventory box -- a total pain in the ass.

The day they finally change that is the day all of Second Life will hear a HUGE cheer from me. *lolol* Ideally - "right click on folder - create box with name of folder". Even I might have a chance at keeping my inventory, well, sort of, sorted.