Example Uses

CloudSticker is great for managing collections of unique items. It allows you to ask "what do I know about this item?", and also to search and organize all your items through your account on the website.

A few notes about this example CloudSticker:

• This is a simplified "mockup" of the CloudSticker content. If you're the owner of the sticker you'll also see things like the privacy settings and the "activity log".
• The yellow "tags" can make it easier to search and organize your stickers.
• You can easily add links to your notes, as seen here in the link to the Wine Advocate review.
• You might want to attach a photo of the wine label to the note -- you can snap a picture right from the CloudSticker detail page using your phone's camera.

Travel experts recommend that you don't show your home address or home phone number on your luggage tags -- the information that you're going to be away for a while is too valuable to burglars. Also, your home contact info isn't that useful to anyone if your bag is lost far from home, especially if you're overseas where your home cell phone number doesn't work. It's more useful to put your local contact information at your destination on your luggage tag. But who wants to keep making new luggage tags? With CloudSticker, it's easy! Just put a CloudSticker on your luggage tag with instructions to scan for up-to-date info. QR codes are common enough that someone will know what to do. Update your Sticker content when you travel, and if you suspect your bag is lost you can even update the content in "real time", for example "I'll be at the hotel after 4:00 in room 317".

A few notes about this example CloudSticker:

• It's easy to find luggage tag holders that take a standard size business card. The back of a business card makes a nice blank luggage tag.
• You can make phone numbers clickable so that anyone scanning your tag can call you and/or send you an SMS text message with one click.
• That last sentence that describes the bag is for the owner's benefit -- he has multiple luggage tags and needs to be able to find and update the right one.

Keeping track of your office equipment isn't that easy, especially if you have many similar pieces of equipment. Is this the PC we bought in 2011 with 1GB of RAM, or the one from 2012 with 2GB? Is this the one that had the bad disk drive last year? Scanning the CloudSticker saves you from having to guess.

A few notes about this example CloudSticker:

• Other information you might want to track: warranty info, purchase price, vendor, links to vendor's product info and support website, etc.
• You can define a "default template" with content that is automatically added to each newly activated CloudSticker. In this example use you might want to put
  Location:
OS:
etc. in your default template, so when you add a new Sticker you just need to fill in the blanks.
• You could enable the "scan notes" feature to make it easier to log periodic inspections and maintenance, and repairs. See the next example for more info.

CloudSticker's "scan notes" feature allows you to easily create a journal of maintenance, inspection, or repair events for a vehicle, appliance, computer, etc. When you scan a sticker that has this feature enabled, you're given a one-line form. Enter a note about why you scanned the sticker and hit the submit button. The note -- along with an automatic time/date stamp and your username -- is automatically appended to the "activity log" for the Sticker, where it is visible only to the owner of the Sticker.

A few notes about this example CloudSticker:

• URLs that begin with http:// or https:// in Sticker content are automatically made into clickable links
• The map icon shown on the activity log entries indicates that the system was able to capture "geolocation" info from the scanning user's mobile device. When the owner clicks this icon he'll see an interactive map interface showing the location of the sticker when it was scanned, like this: