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> I honestly can't stand doing inventory and ordering/shopping every week. I would love for that process to be automated. A beautiful fact about refrigerators
by daveguy 10y ago
> I honestly can't stand doing inventory and ordering/shopping every week. I would love for that process to be automated.
A beautiful fact about refrigerators is that they make for perfect whiteboard surfaces and they are magnetic. I take a picture of my fridge before I go shopping, on which I have written everything that needs to be purchased. A magnetic whiteboard marker with builtin eraser stays on the fridge. There is no way a "smart fridge" is going to catch up to that level of ease + utility any time soon.
- lotharbot 10y agoI have an actual magnetic whiteboard, which I carry with me to the store and erase as I put things into my cart. The magnetic marker+eraser goes in my pocket, and I put it back on the fridge when I'm putting away my groceries.
- sib 10y agoWhat if there were and "Evernote-OCR + Amazon Fresh" app that would let you take a picture of the whiteboard and then have the stuff show up in an hour?
- Larrikin 10y agoTo me, this seems far more inconvenient than just taking out my phone and just putting in to my grocery list what I'm out of in something like Our Groceries. It syncs to my phone and my wife's phone and keeps track of items we've previously purchased. No need for a picture of the fridge, one person can just pick up everything on the list without even asking.
- cgriswald 10y agoI am perfectly capable of maintaining an inventory. In fact I am quite efficient at it. The reason is that I despise having to do it; which is also the reason I would love an automated process which doesn't require me to snap photos or go to stores. Your solution wouldn't work well for me, though. My refrigerator is covered in stained wood. :)