What I would really like is a tool that takes a video or series of photos, and automatic catalogues the contents. This would be nice from a ‘document all the things’ perspective, but really, really convenient in case of a fire or theft claim.<p>If you haven’t already, I strongly urge everyone reading this comment to stand up and do a video walkthrough of your house, <i>today</i>. Do all of your book spines, jewellery, DVDs, games, clothes, tools, cutlery, etc. Take photos of your bike’s serial numbers (usually under the hub).<p>Store the videos and photos in a cloud album or even a free tier somewhere. Email it to yourself, whatever, just don’t forget to do it.<p>It might take half an hour or, but this evidence is priceless (in terms of time, but it does actually have an monetary value) if you ever need to claim insurance in case of a fire or buglary.<p>It simply isn’t possible to remember everything you own.<p>Some insurers demand photographic evidence of recent ownership - I found this out the hard way (who here has a photo of themselves with their bike?! I even had the receipt!)
I would really love a control-f for the real world.<p>Imagine you have a list of wines you want to try, or used books you’re hoping to buy.<p>In the store you open your phone and scan the shelves with your camera and if it finds any matches from your lists, it shows you them on the screen.
I wish when people published things like this they would take the time to notice that their requirements.txt and READMEs don't actually work; e.g., try it out in a fresh VM or container divorced from their working environment. Not even their <i>arguments</i> match what's in the README.
While watching an interview recently, where the interviewee was sitting in front of their bookshelf, I was trying to discern the book titles to add to my reading list. I screenshotted the person/bookshelf and tried asking ChatGPT+/GPT4 to list all the books. It could only identity a tiny fraction.
This is a nice time saving tool for "minimalist" information hoarding.
A pet project of mine is to thin out my bookshelf only to books I regularly reach for and store "never going to read" books out of sight.<p>The idea is, if I can save the details of the "never going to read books" and acquire a digital copy of them, it may be easier for me to psychologically let go of the physical copy and gain the storage space again.<p>I was going to take a photo of my crowded bookshelves and manually put the ISBN and titles into a spreadsheet. Keeping the photos simply for extra reference. Your project making the photo clickable is a great bridge between the data and artifact.
For those not interested in taking photos, this Virtual Bookshelf project was posted some time ago:<p><a href="https://github.com/petargyurov/virtual-bookshelf">https://github.com/petargyurov/virtual-bookshelf</a>
HTML has image maps. It's been there since longer than many of the people who might read this post have even been alive. You don't need SVG and JS for this.
Looks interesting, but surely image maps (<a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/map" rel="nofollow">https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/ma...</a>) would be more suitable? no need for `onclick` handlers either then.<p>(They are mentioned at the start as an option so maybe there was a reason they were disregarded)
Was expecting to find a project where you add switch behind a book and "clicking" it opens up secret entrance behind the bookshelf, but this is also very cool.
Would it make sense to have the user click and then use that point as a SAM prompt? It might let you find a book even if the initial SAM query doesn't find it.