Create QR code / NFC tags for organizing and storage
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- Опубліковано 24 лип 2024
- In this video, I will show you how to create your very own organizing system using QR codes or NFC tags and Google Photo. This is basically your very own smart and searchable storage and organizing system, just with your iPhone and QR code or NFC tags.
Time Stamps
0:00 Intro / demo
1:17 how it works?
2:28 How to build your backend on GooglePhoto
3:53 create Link it to QR or NFC
4:42 Making QR code labels
6:18 Make an NFC tag
7:24 Adding new things to the box
8:10 Q & A
what I mentioned in this video.
MakeID Label Maker M1 - amzn.to/3eOJOhW
NFC stickers - amzn.to/31q9kXI
Use your iPhone to SAFELY Generate QR codes!!!
• Safest way to generate...
Free QRcode generator from Beaconstac
x-l.ink/qrgen2
Commercial smart QR code products similar to the ideas presented in this video:
QuickPeek - amzn.to/3JGD9EI
ToteScan - amzn.to/3zrRVub
Elephant Trax Smart Storage QR Labels - amzn.to/3FWonHL
music by MusMus musmus.main.jp/
and Epidemic sound
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I have to say that the love and effort you put into your videos really jumps out of the screen, I just used your video on the NFC tags with QR codes, because I hate how hard amiibos are to get here.
But on the process you won a subscriber, really enjoying your videos thus far, keep it up! And thanks again!!
Thanks for the support and I will try to work on better contents :)
Organizing my storage tomorrow, thanks for the how-to notes! 😊
This will revolutionize how I manage inventory. Thank you for sharing.
yeah... I am still using it... it's great everytime I am quickly able to find my stuff. :) thanks for watching.
This is amazing! Just placed an order on Amazon! Thank you so much for sharing!
Thank you for videos. Still interesting full of information I love your approaches
War Eagle Man! Nice to see a fellow engineer sharing the love for tech!!
War Eagle! Thanks for stopping by!
Great video with awesome detail. Thanks.
Great video! I've been thinking about how to organize with QR codes for a while and your video nicely connects the dots on how to do it.
The great thing about generating your own QR codes is that they can link to just about anything online including Google Keep, Evernote, Notion, GCal etc. This seems like an amazing way to link your physical stuff to your digital stuff. I'm thinking of using these stickers in a standard notebook to link handwritten notes to online resources. The possibilities seem endless.
Keep up the good work. 👍
That's right ... the only challenge that I found was that those links has to be public links so depending on what you want to be public it can be a pain in the butt in keeping things private. But you got the right ideas!!! Thanks for watching my videos! Have a great day!!
@@minhsao It's true... that's the main drawback for sure. You can link to a non-Google indexed link like an Evernote link, but that still doesn't make it private. I'm interested in trying this, though.
The main thing that stopped me from buying the printer you used is that a lot of thermal printing label makers still print with BPA or related compounds which aren't so great for your health. There is phenol free thermal label paper out there, but when I asked the maker of the printer you mentioned in the video if their paper was phenol free, they didn't respond.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisphenol_A
This makes me suspect it has phenols in it which are still not so good for your health. As a result, I took a look at handheld printers that can also print QR codes on a variety of surfaces. (Like the Ricoh Handy Printer).
It's a fair bit more expensive than the thermal label printer you mentioned, but its versatility might make it worth checking out for a future review. Cheers and thanks for the ideas!
Anyhow best wishes from Nagoya, JP - the most boring major city in Japan. Cheers.
@@mikemiller7377 dude! I was just in Japan!!! Still have a bunch of videos to edit about that… thanks again for checking out my video and good luck on your project and thanks for the thermal printer suggestions… I will check it out!
@@minhsao Wish I could have met up with you for a drink when you were here! Keep up the good work and let me know if you are ever back in the land of the rising sun. Cheers.🍺
@@mikemiller7377 yep love to do that, I love visiting Japan so I will be back soon!!
Wow, yur method works like a charm. I created albums in Google photo, shared the album, copy the link url 2 a website 2 shorten the url. Then copy the short url 2 a QR genenerator, & voila = a QR code, copy & paste on2 my notebook. Very cool way 4 organization. Best part is the album can b obtain on tht internet, & not stored locally on yur C: drive or phone drive. Thx 4 Sharing on the Utube.
Thanks for your comment. I use it all the time. I need to find better way to put the qr code on the cloth containers though :) thanks for your comments!!
Just built a bookshelf in boxes with NFC and Notion. All thanks to you, now I can get more books and won't have to fight with all of them to find a book I wanna read 😊
That is awesome .. so does notion give you a url for each entry??
@@minhsao it can. But for my setup, I create a page with the books name and use that page's link only. Those books have separate pages too which can be accessed while I'm on bookshlef page after scanning nfc tag.
that is awesome!!! Love it!!! thanks for sharing!! I only wish I love to read as must as you do to have a book collection :) but again ... super cool and thanks for sharing!!
Would love to know if you used an existing Notion template or if you created your own. That way I could see it. I think your project is amazing.
@@adrielomalley I actually modified a template I found somewhere for free (can't remember exactly from where). The template was named Digital Bookshelf in Notion. And then modified it according to my need. Created my physical book boxes tracker in another page and then whenever I put a book in there, I link that to my existing bookshelf book entry
Great video. This would of been a great project back when Google Photos had free unlimited storage for your photos.
great content bro thanks for sharing
very useful video. Thanks very much!
Thanks for the video. 😎✌️
I am trying to build a home Network using Google Assistant, was going to try to make most things voice controlled. Pretty new to this and could use any tips you could offer, thanks again.
Cool ideas
Thanks!
Great video. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching my videos!! Have a great day!!
thank you... it worked
yeah I have this setup for my devices, kits, components works great but I have a excelsheet where it points to.
Great idea! Thanks
works great!
WOW and WOW how does this video not have more NFC views.?
Thanks for watching my video... I hope you find it helpful!! Also check out my recent shorts on generating QR codes with iPhone :)
ua-cam.com/users/shorts8JzMmrE4dnM. Enjoy!
This is a great idea on the cheap. I need to find a label printer! I think Organize It uses NFC.
Wow! This is so cool!
Good thing my phone used has NFC Feature.
That is really cooool !
however it is extremely likely that you will you need to find a specific item? how o i search to discover which box it is in?
Really helpful thanks
Glad to hear! Good luck!
Great video!
Glad you enjoyed it... thanks for your support!!
Great video. I just bought the elephant-trax labels, but in app it does not go to my computer. I hope you can do a video with existing bar codes and show how to have the stuff on the computer also besides just on your iphone. Thank you.
You can use google photo on your computer :)
Hi could you tell me nfc card barcode sticker which size to use
Wow, gr8 organization w/ nfc & qr codes. Have the same problem w/ my home stuff like holiday decor, & tools. Thx 4 sharing on Utube.
Min, the OCD side of me loves this idea for getting organized. but I have literally hundreds of things to organize, and I type less than 30 words per minute, therefore the ADHD side of me would never be able to finish - Ah heck who am I kidding ?, the procrastinator in me will probably never even get around to starting. Thanks for teaching me how though.
Oh my gosh... I am exactly that way as well... if you look carefully in the background you will see exactly what I mean. I try to get organized but I can't focus enough to finish the job. .... hence the 10 video backlog that I have... but what I find sometime that helps me is to make small goals and even if you can't finish the big goals, the little goals still feels good... Good luck and thanks for the comment and watching my video!!!
I don't know if ADHD or OCD, but do have problem 2 accomplished big goals, eg: new bathroom. What I've learned about my procrastination side of me is take small steps. Each week, I take small steps on the big task, which eventually lead 2 an accomplish goal. Good luck, & thx 4 sharing on Utube.
Great video! good use of google photos and I like that label maker a lot!
I'm impressed you got the NFC stickers working with an Iphone! I made an A1 poster of all my favourite albums each with NFC stickers behind them to open the album on spotify and play it. Works great with android but not compatable with Iphone. Did you have to buy a specific type?
That is a great idea!!! I will do that on my next video!! Thanks for the suggestion!!
Also nfc is supported iPhone 7 and up
Ever wonder what is in those christmas totes or how about all those boxes on the shelf in the garage? This is the solution!
That is what I do for my garage boxes too
Yes, 00:10 - Yes and yes!
How would you suggest to setup for people who want to use it with more details that just a pic?
Example: if I want to use it with pre cut wires that have different gauges and lengths, as well as materials?
I would put it in the description of the photo. You can do that in google photos. I do that for all my items to get better search results. Good luck
Hello from New York City! Want to try this myself but there are technical problems on my end. My existing label printer can only print 12mm wide labels. Just wondering how to make a super small QR codes that would fit on a Dymo LabelManager PNP printer that can only print 12mm wide labels. Because your QR label printer uses 63mm wide label media. Your inventory management idea described in this video is very impressive. Thank you for informative video. Have a good day.
I love NYC!!! I had a brother label maker that is similar to the Dymo as well. My recommend is to leverage something like what I used in the video, like this label maker. MakeID Label Maker M1 - amzn.to/3eOJOhW It's pretty cheap and probably saves you more time than trying to get label and figure out everything on your Dymo. Also it is so much faster to make labels since you set everything on your phone app. ... good luck and have a great day!
I really liked this video and you have me thinking about alot of other organization opportunities. However, I was lost when you showed us the printer. How did you actually make the QR code? Was there a separate app that you used to do this? Thank you for this video.
The printer has an associated app that allow you to just type in a URL and it will allow you to print QR codes. I will do a video on this printer soon!! Let me know if you have anymore questions and thanks for watching my video!!!
@@minhsao thank you. Im thinking about how to organize and archive boxes of files differently now based on your videos. You’ve given me some good ideas!! Thank you.
Sorry , but when a client is opening my website and all the tools connected to my website with my NFC card, can he download or save all that information in her smartphone as an app so she can use it later any time she needs?
Because when i bought a card before for 80€ , i could do it , and that is really cool and important.
Otherwise the client will lose all the information several minutes after scanning my nfc card.
Thank you
So the label maker itself generates the QR code? That’s pretty cool. At that price gotta get me one
Yep the label maker can create the QR code with an URL!!
Totescan app does the same thing
Question do you know by any chance how to create QR codes in bulk to resale them and have the customers be able to use them for there own propose. Thank you if you can answer this question.
please clarify what you are trying to do with the QR codes? for inventory management?
I’ve followed everything ok but I’m stuck and just spent over an hour trying to get a URL Shortener. I started with the one you have but it has no instructions. Do you have a video on downloading an URL Shortener and how to use?
Hello Thanks for watching my video. You don't really need a url shortener...but a URL shrotener does make the QR code smaller, but if you are using the NFC tags it doesn't really matter. But with that said, I actually build my own URL shortener in this video by using yourls.org/ inside a docker container. It's pretty simple but it will be much more than I can explain here in a comment. But if you are interested, I can create one as s future video. Anyways, if you do not want register your own shorten domain and build your own URL shortener, then I would suggest you try one of the free url shorteners. blog.appsumo.com/best-url-shortener/ ... I could not find one that I feel is super safe without my information being sold or controlled that is why I built my own. I hope my response helps and good luck and thanks again for watching my video and let me know if I can help. Have a great day.
yes please make a video on how to host our own shortened url. I like the security of having my own link and also the simplicity of keeping it short like yours@@minhsao
Do we have to use this label maker only to print QR codes, or we could use any other label maker? What accessories did you buy with the label maker ?
you can use any method you wish to print the QR code. I've use a regular printer and a 1"x1" stickers... as seen in my other video ua-cam.com/video/gbZDTGqoVks/v-deo.html I found the small label makers pretty convenient. .. good luck.
Do you have to take manually take a picture or can you just add a image you already have
you can do both. I usually take the pictures without live photo and then upload them all at once to the container album. Good luck
Will this work with a database in Notion?
Yes.. it will probably work with Notion if it provide an public URL. however, the point of using Google photo is for the tags and image searches.
I need to enter an item and find out which box it’s in. How do I accomplish this?
Just type in what you are searching for and click on the image of the results and the look for the description and it should tell you which box it’s in… good luck
I have spent hours looking at your video multiple times and spent too much time with tiny url. It won't let me create an alias at the end like you do on your video. I just wanted to add a number like 701. It doesn't look like I have to pay for a subscription. All I want is to label my inventory of stuff I need to list on ebay. Is there a user friendly (for struggling senior) that I can use? I am open to anyone answering.
Sorry that you have to spend so much time messing with this. Yeah most of the free URL shorteners just give you a randomly generated address. That's really ok, because the only reason you need a shortener is to reduce the URL size so you can reduce the QR code size. In my demo, i built my own URL shortener that is why I can use any suffix that I choose. My recommendation are the following: 1) if you are interesting in learning how everything works and don't mind spending the extra time, then I would continue to use the method described in this video, but either use another free URL shortener or just don't worry about the custom suffix. 2) If that custom suffix really bothers you then you can get a paid service like beaconstac which provides QR code as well as shortened URL. 3) Finally, it maybe much easier if you are planning to pay to just simply use a complete solution that I have listed in the description. It's never bad to learn about how it works, but it just take time and effort. I hope my answer helps. and if you have any additional questions please feel free to post it here and I will try to assist. Good luck and thanks again for watching my videos! Happy Thanksgiving!!!
@@minhsao Thank you for responding so quickly. Your video was exactly what I was looking for to keep track of my inventory with eBay. The custom numbering it's not that big of a deal since I will just add the numbers to the label with the QR code. I plan to get a separate Google account to put all my pictures in. You are an excellent teacher and I look forward to seeing more of your videos. Thank you again and have a wonderful holiday.
@@dorisp9127 thank you Doris… thank you for such an encouraging message. I will find some time to do more tutorial videos. This is a hobby for me so my content hopes around… but I want to help people understand technology … good luck in your QR code experiment … let me know if you have any more questions
What if you delete the phots from google photes? will they be gone from the link??
The links are to the folders not directly to the photos
cool idea, too bad the information cannot be easily exported or manipulated, would also be nice if the nfc tags could be spatially mapped
yeah... to get it spatially mapped you will need to have a reader at every location which is much more complex.
Is there a way to do this without google photos? Instead use an external hard drive? I would like to skip yet another subscription service.
You can use anything, a QRcode is just encoded text. As long as you know where to plug that text in, it can be anything. Personally my QRcodes are not URLs but ID's. This allows me to use any backed system I want. Of you like a nice back end that is self hosted, grocy is really cool, integrates with home assistant.
Google photo is free… depending on amount of photos … I am using a separate account just for this. You can use any thing else that gives you a url for your QR code. But the reason why I like google photo is I can search with in the photos. Good luck!!
Can any person scan the QR Code to view it or only myself.
depends on how you set the permissions ... I set it to public... risky but at the same time.. security through obscurity ... not recommended if you are putting expensive things in your box.... if you want to be private, i would lock it down on who can access the google photos :) good luck!!
You said it was easy... I watched it's not
Thanks for watching my video... The search was pretty easy right? I guess it is not as easy as just writing what inside the box on a label, but this is kind of cool with google photo can search for a photo based on text .... right? I am just curious, what was it that you found difficult, maybe I can make another video or come up with another process to make it easier. But again thanks for watching my video and good luck with your organization quest.
your video would be a lot more useful if you could lose the "background" music so we could hear your voice. Thanks...
Sorry about that... there are no way for me to change the video now... but I will make sure that doesn't happen in my future videos. Thanks for the constructive feedback... and thanks for watching.
I prefer to write it down on a stick label. Handwritten, or using aabel machine. Your method just makes looking for stuff much slower. Imagine sifting through a bunch of boxes to look for a part because I have to wait for my phone to process a QR code... Argh!