Hi :D

I have a question.

When you buy something from Renderosity or other Poser/Daz stores, do you keep some kind of offline catalog of your purchases? Something like a collection database so you know what you bought, when, and where?

I’m really curious how other people handle this.

I recently started organizing everything myself. I use Memento Database on my phone. I export the CSV file of my purchases from my account (huge thanks that this is even possible!) and since my Memento Database is linked with Google Sheets, I transfer the values from the CSV into the spreadsheet for Memento.

Because I’m also a very forgetful person, I added extra columns for tags and for which figure the item is made for, so later I can easily search for things.

Once I update the Google Sheet, I sync it with Memento on my phone. Then I open a new entry, click the link, and save the product’s cover image from the browser because I feel like that sometimes helps with inspiration. After that I go back into the app, open the entry again, and attach the image I just downloaded.

I’m still in the setup phase, and with more than 3000 items this takes a really long time. It’s definitely one of those huge “busy work” projects for when you are seriously bored. XD

At least with Renderosity it works really nicely. Exporting purchases from Daz is an absolute nightmare. I’m not even sure if I’ll bother downloading images there. On top of that, the seller information is missing.

So how do you all handle this? Or does nobody else go to this much effort?

I thought I could get carried away with organization. What would be the benefit of this? I usually just look at my purchase history on the site.

I thought about whether I should start cataloging everything for a long time too. At first I also thought it was unnecessary, but in the end I think it is just something my inner monk really wants. Funny enough, in real life I am actually completely unorganized. XD

For me it almost feels like scrolling through my treasures.

The practical advantage is that I have a much better search system than Poser gives me. Until now I also just checked my purchase history on the website, but if I am looking for something specific and it is not mentioned in the title, I cannot really find it in my purchases. And if I search for it in the store, it may show up there, but I cannot filter the results to only show things I already own, so items can easily get lost among everything else.

That would be my official explanation at least. 😄

Honestly though, I think I just really enjoy being able to quickly search keywords in the app when I have an idea in my head, and especially being able to look at everything visually. I can scroll through all my V4 characters and suddenly think, “Yes, you are exactly right for this project.”

For me that is much easier than going through all the characters inside Poser itself. Over there it is more like organized chaos. 😅

I have tried a dozen times to approach cataloging my collection, and each time I just gave up because it became daunting, especially finding more information from content no longer available (thumbnails, tags, etc.). Recently, I have taken to downloading the webpage thumbnails of all purchases and freebies and embedding them into my folders as icons. It makes it easier to identify the content without having to open the folders or the zip files.

3000 huh...wait until you get to over 7000 just with Daz. I hate to think how much it is after adding Rendo, what I had purchased from RDNA not everything went to Daz, and many other sites that used to exist and then there are all the freebies. Cataloguing isn't for the faint hearted....