Working with IMPS

IMPS is designed to help you keep track of things that you own that are in storage. It is based on the idea of "items"--things that you are storing, "boxes"--containers that you are keeping the items in, and (optionally) "categories"--into which items are grouped for easier finding/sorting and "locations"--places where the boxes are stored.

The interface

The Home Page

You can use the IMPS web interface to interact with items and boxes. The IMPS home page provides links to the tools and views needed to manage your items and boxes. Here you can search for an item, view a complete list of all items, view items in a particular category, and more.

For each box, IMPS creates a label that contains a QR code that points to the IMPS page for that box. If you print out these labels and attach them to the boxes, you can point your phone at the QR code and IMPS will show you a list of items in that box. This means you don't have to read the box name or number and enter it in to IMPS (though you can), which simplifies and speeds up the process of seeing the contents of a box.

From any box page (box contents, box edit, box list) you can click the QR code icon to open the box label.

IMPS Views

IMPs is designed to be used on either a desktop computer or a mobile device. On many IMPS pages, you will see a view switch at the top. Clicking the non-highlighted view will switch to the other view. If you are viewing the contents of a box in the "detailed" view , click the "simplified" icon and IMPS will show you the box contents in the "simplified" view. IMPS will remember which view you were using last and show that view across the program.

The "simplified" view is a tiled view of all the image items for the page you are viewing. The detailed view is a tablular list with sortable columns.

Customizing views

You can change how the views look, including which columns are displayed and how many photos are shown per row in the Views page of the control panel. To customize your view, from the home page click the control panel icon (CP) and then click the Views button.