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Locations

A Location is a place inside a Space — a room, a shelf, a cabinet, a drawer, a bin. Locations are what actually hold Items: an Item always attaches to one specific Location, never to a Space directly. This is what makes an Item's address precise ("Workshop → Electronics Shelf → Bin 4") rather than vague ("somewhere in the Workshop").

It's a tree, not a list​

Locations nest inside each other, as deep as you want:

Space: Workshop
 └─ Location: Electronics Shelf
     ├─ Location: Bin 1 (resistors)
     ├─ Location: Bin 2 (capacitors)
     └─ Location: Small Parts Drawer
         ├─ Location: Screws
         └─ Location: Connectors

Any Location can have Items directly in it and sub-Locations at the same time — a shelf can hold loose items and also contain bins that hold more items. There's no depth limit; nest as far as your actual organization goes.

Browsing​

The app shows Locations as a breadcrumb + folder browser, similar to a file manager: you navigate into a Space, see its top-level Locations and any Items directly inside it, click into a sub-Location, and so on. A breadcrumb trail at the top always shows the full path back to the Space, and each Location has its own shareable URL — you can bookmark or link directly to a specific shelf or bin.

Within a Location's view, sub-Locations and Items are shown as two distinct sections rather than one merged list, so you can tell at a glance what's a container and what's a physical item.

:::info Screenshot placeholder A Location detail view: breadcrumb trail at the top, a "Sub-locations" section with a few folder tiles, and an "Items" section below with a card grid of items. :::

Moving and reorganizing​

Locations can be renamed and moved (reparented) at any time — for example, moving "Bin 4" from one shelf to another. A move is restricted to staying within the same Space; relocating structure between two entirely different Spaces isn't supported, since a Space represents an actual separate physical site. The app also prevents moving a Location into one of its own sub-Locations, which would create a loop.

Deleting​

Deleting a Location deletes everything beneath it in the tree — every sub-Location and every Item they contain. As with Space deletion, the app requires explicit confirmation before doing this, since it's permanent.

Where Locations come from​

A brand-new Space starts with no Locations — you create the first one yourself (e.g. "add a Location called 'Shelf 1'") rather than the app inventing a default structure for you. See Browsing & Organizing for the step-by-step of creating, renaming, moving, and deleting Locations.