Introducing the Sought App – Your Personal Cataloguing Tool at your Fingertips.
What started as a tool to help catalogue a family estate now has its own app with versatility to boot. If you haven’t already heard about it, or given it a whirl, maybe it’s time you did.
The simplicity of the Sought app keeps what can be an arduous job, to one so easy to use you could get the kids cataloguing during the holidays. Snap, record, allocate and save. The Sought app really is your personal cataloguing tool right at your fingertips. It allows you to take photos of an item, categorise it into rooms and record item details. Add extra information in the additional details field, such as barcodes, warranties, item value, notes on its history - anything that relates to the item can be logged. The last step in the process is choosing what you would like to do with said item.
With dropdown menus and a systematic and logical approach to the functionality, you would be hard pressed to mess this up. Once completed, send the report through to your loved ones, your insurance company, your lawyer or executor, or just file it for yourself.
The brainchild of Lisa Dooling, founder and director of Sought Ltd, the app has come to life with the hard work of Nick from Little Monkey. “We started Sought to relieve stress and anxiety for people who are pre-planning or are already dealing with grief. If you can’t get home to deal with a family death, you already have enough to worry about. The app is an extension of this, a way to help catalogue, organise and distribute items from anywhere. We are already getting feedback about how people are using it in various ways, which is wonderful,” explains Lisa.
Primarily set up for someone who is getting their life in order and determining how they
would like their personal affects distributed, this app has opened the door to so many other
uses and purposes. The question is how would you use it, and why? Cue relatable story (true
BTW).
My in-laws had saved for retirement to buy their dream caravan, the specification was expensive, unique and truly theirs and they spent many years basking in the glory of saying goodbye to years of hard work to `live on the road’, with their worldly possessions in tow.
During the Nelson floods in 2018, they lost everything, water reached the top of the caravan door and all was submerged. The pain and stress of losing their beloved caravan and life-long dream coupled with the insurance nightmare of trying to remember every item and cost that was in that caravan took their toll. Had they had the Sought app, they could have added any new items brought since they last updated the app, downloaded the report and emailed it straight to their insurance company, then sat back and enjoyed a stress-free insurance recovery process. Instead, they agonised, recorded and discussed for days and days over what was in the caravan, what they had missed, and crucially to them, what the cost was, not to mention the cost of their own time.
So do you choose to use the Sought app for insurance purposes, or as intended; a way to catalogue your lifetime of precious memories to distribute to family and friends once you are no longer here. Do you choose to use it for each of your investment properties, or holiday rentals, to record the items but also keep an eye on the condition of each piece? Do you choose to use it for your business requirements, or a house move, or regretfully a separation? What about cataloguing your belongings before it goes into a storage unit?
There are limitless entries per `Estate’. Estate being anything you want or need to catalogue.
It’s not hard to be ahead of disaster, but it is undeniably tough to be behind it picking up the pieces while normal life continues at its unrelenting pace.
It’s also comforting and empowering to choose who gets what when it comes to your family estate. A will sometimes only acknowledges the more expensive items within the home, but never underestimate the value of a memory associated with your personal effects.
So, give the Sought app a trial – 20 entries free to see how it works – I don’t think there will be any regrets in getting your life in order, well maybe just one from the kids who may regret telling you they were bored!
