Items
An Item is a physical thing you're tracking: a resistor, a screwdriver, a spool of cable, a box of screws. Items are the leaves of the inventory tree — they attach to exactly one Location at a time and don't contain anything else themselves.
What every Item has
Regardless of its type, every Item carries the same baseline attributes:
| Attribute | Notes |
|---|---|
| Name | Required. |
| Description | Optional free text. |
| Quantity | How many of this exact thing are at this Location (defaults to 1). |
| Location | Where it physically is — exactly one Location. |
| Item Type | What kind of thing it is — see Item Types & Fields. |
| Synonyms | Alternate names/aliases (e.g. "10k resistor," "10kΩ") that make it easier to find later via search, without cluttering the actual name. |
| Owner | Who the item currently belongs to / is responsible for. Defaults to whoever created it, and can be reassigned to any other member of the Organization. |
| Creator | Who originally added the item. This is a fixed historical fact and never changes, even if ownership is reassigned. |
| Images | One or more photos, for identification and for the AI-assisted add flow (see below). |
On top of that baseline, an Item picks up whatever custom fields its Item Type defines — a Resistor gets a Resistance field, a Battery gets a Voltage field, and so on. See Item Types & Fields for how that works.
:::info Screenshot placeholder An Item detail page: photo, name, type badge, quantity, location breadcrumb, owner, and the type-specific fields (e.g. Resistance, Tolerance for a resistor) laid out below. :::
Moving Items
Unlike a Location, an Item is explicitly allowed to move across Spaces — "I moved this drill from the Workshop to the Garage" is a completely normal, everyday action, since an Item is the actual movable object the whole system exists to track. A Location, by contrast, represents a fixed structure within one physical site and can't cross Space boundaries.
Finding Items again
Because every Item has exactly one current Location, "where is this?" always has a precise answer. On top of browsing to it directly, Ohmventory also offers:
- Search — free-text and filtered search across every Item in your Organization, regardless of which Space or Location it's in.
- Scanning — scan a printed Label to jump straight to that Item's page.
Adding Items
There are three ways to create an Item — typing it in manually, or letting AI analyze a photo (one item at a time, or in a batch). See Adding Items for the full walkthrough of all three.