Setting Up Your Home in Ginkgo

Ginkgo organises items by location. Before adding lots of items, it’s worth spending a few minutes setting up locations that match how you actually think about your home.

What’s a location?

A location in Ginkgo is anywhere you store things. It can be as broad or specific as you like:

• A room: “Living room”, “Kitchen”, “Loft”
• A storage area: “Under-stairs cupboard”, “Garage shelves”, “Attic boxes”
• A specific container: “Top kitchen drawer”, “Bedside table”
• An area outside your home: “Garden shed”, “Car boot”

You can nest locations inside each other — so “Kitchen > Top drawer” makes it easy to be specific without requiring a flat list of every possible storage location.

How to create a location

1. Go to Locations in the menu
2. Tap Add location
3. Give it a name
4. Optionally, add it inside another location (e.g. add “Top drawer” inside “Kitchen”)
5. Tap Save

How many locations should I create?

Start with fewer than you think you need. You can always add more.

A good starting point is one location for each room or major storage area in your home. As you add items, you’ll discover which locations need to be broken down further (a “Kitchen” that contains hundreds of items probably needs sub-locations; one with five items doesn’t).

Tips

Don’t overthink the hierarchy. Most homes work well with one or two levels — room, then storage area within room. Deeper nesting is available but rarely necessary.

Use names you’ll actually say. “The cupboard under the stairs” is a perfectly valid location name. Use whatever language feels natural to you.

Match how you search, not how you file. The goal isn’t a perfect taxonomy — it’s making things easy to find. Think about how you’d describe a location to someone else, and use that as the name.