Creating and Managing Locations

Locations in Ginkgo represent the physical places where your items live. You can be as broad or as specific as suits your home.

Creating a location

1. Tap Locations in the navigation
2. Tap + Add location
3. Enter a name
4. Optionally: choose a parent location (to nest it inside another location)
5. Optionally: add an emoji icon to make it easier to identify at a glance
6. Tap Save

Location types

There’s no strict hierarchy — any location can be nested inside any other. Common patterns:

Flat list: Kitchen, Living room, Bedroom 1, Garage, Loft

Two-level: Kitchen > Top drawer, Kitchen > Bottom cupboard, Garage > Shelving unit, Garage > Workbench

Mixed: Some rooms have sub-locations, others don’t — whatever makes sense for your home.

Renaming a location

1. Go to Locations
2. Tap the location you want to rename
3. Tap Edit
4. Change the name
5. Tap Save

Renaming a location updates it everywhere it’s referenced in your inventory.

Merging locations

If you have two locations that should be one:

1. Edit the items in one location to move them to the other
2. Delete the now-empty location

There isn’t a direct “merge” function yet — this is on our roadmap.

Deleting a location

A location can only be deleted when it contains no items. Move or delete all items in the location first, then:

1. Go to Locations
2. Tap the location
3. Tap Edit > Delete location