Finding what a long list was hiding

August 22, 2026

Two lists that had grown past being useful — a couple of hundred categories in one run, and the places you had switched off missing from the other — and one question the app asked that kept leaving the screen before it could be answered.

Open a line to read the whole story behind it.

• New The Locations screen can now show the places you disabled, and put one back.

  The Locations screen can now show the places you disabled, and put one back. Show disabled locations in the header lists them beside the rest, dimmed and marked, and each one offers Enable where a live place offers Disable. The page for a place carries the same switch over its sub-locations, and once it is on it stays on as you open one place after another, so a disabled shelf inside a disabled room is a couple of clicks away rather than out of reach. Disabling was one-way until now — a place taken out of the lists left the lists altogether, and there was nowhere left to press. Enabling a sub-location asks you to enable the place above it first, so nothing ends up visible underneath something that is not. Nothing about a disabled place changed while it was away: its stock, its history and its code are exactly as they were.

• New A category can sit under another one, so a long list reads as a handful of groups.

  A category can now sit under another one — Bolts under Fasteners — so a long list reads as a handful of groups instead of two hundred labels in a row. Choose where a category belongs on the category screen; the product form indents the sub-categories under the one they belong to, and the filter on the catalogue groups them under a heading. One level deep: a category that already groups others stays at the top, which keeps every list short enough to read at a shelf. A sub-category is an ordinary category — you can put products straight into either one, and nothing is added up between them. The ready-made categories arrive grouped now, so pressing Add the standard categories gives you a set that is already sorted out. Nothing you already have moves: your own categories stay exactly where they are until you say otherwise, and deleting a category leaves the ones under it behind rather than taking them with it.

• Improved The ready-made categories you already had are grouped too, leaving anything you changed alone.

  The ready-made categories you already had are now grouped too, not just the ones added from here on. Around two hundred of them moved under a heading — Bolts under Fasteners, Cable under Electrical — and the rest stay at the top because that is where they belong. Anything you had moved yourself is left exactly where you put it, and so is every category you made up. It happens once: from now on where a category sits is yours to decide, and nothing will rearrange it again.

• Improved The ready-made categories have been gone through end to end: fewer headings, plainer names, thirty-one added.

  The ready-made categories have been gone through end to end. The set is grouped into fewer headings than before, so what you scroll is a few dozen groups rather than the sixty-eight the list opened with, and every heading now actually holds something — the hinges, locks and handles that used to sit under Fasteners have moved to Hardware where they belong, and the entries that describe the state a thing is in rather than what it is are gathered under Stock Status. Names that read as though a purchasing department had written them are gone: Consignment Stock is now Borrowed Items, Semi-Finished Goods is Unfinished Projects, and MRO Supplies has gone altogether. Thirty-one categories were added for the things people really do box up and label — chargers and adapters, toys, fitness and winter sports, Christmas decorations, gift wrap, woodworking, pottery, firewood, medicines, pet food, personal documents — and a run of Dutch and German names that said the wrong thing has been corrected. If you had already added the ready-made set, the regrouping and the new names reach you too — but only on the categories you had never touched. Anything you renamed keeps your wording, anything you moved stays where you put it, and any category you made up yourself is left completely alone. Two headings you may still see, Accessories and MRO Supplies, are no longer offered to new setups; yours stay until you retire them.

• Improved The What is new page is a list you can scan, with the whole story of a version one click away.

  The What is new page is now a list you can scan: one line per version with the date, what it was about, and how many things it added, improved and fixed. Open a version to read the whole story of it, and step straight to the one before or after without going back to the list. Until now every version printed every sentence on the same page, so it grew by a screenful each time and the newest one was the only one anybody got to.

• Fixed Pressing Delete on a row now opens a question you can read and answer.

  Pressing Delete on a row in the sites or products list now opens a question you can read and answer. Two things were in the way. The row underneath was reading the same press as a request to open that entry, so the question appeared and the app moved on to the entry's own page a moment later. And the question itself was written on one long line that ran out of its box and off the side of the table, so the sentence saying what was about to be deleted could only be reached by scrolling sideways. A click anywhere else in the row still opens it.