I've been working on coming back into Second Life after a prolonged stint away due to work arrangements and in doing so hope to bring several new creators along with me into what feels like a wonderful revival of the Second Life platform. Unfortunately, the landscape remains (in my opinion) extremely anti-newbie. To look good or create in Second Life requires such an immense hand-hold through all of the tiny nuances throughout the platform and the differences between each creator's naming conventions of objects and way of organization of their items that it's very difficult for people to learn anew. Even for me, a Second Life resident of 20 and creator of 15+ years, I found it challenging to catch up with everything that had changed.

With that said, there is a suggestion I'd like to make in the interest of visual-based learners and organizers like myself that I feel would help out everyone: Customizable inventory icons for mesh, tattoos, and more.

I've attached two example images.

One is how a Jian Pets product currently unpacks, showing all mesh/objects as the same yellow cube.

The other illustrates how with existing emojis already added to Second Life, the option could exist where you can change what the object icon would appear to be - in this case, I've elected to change the animesh/pet objects to be dogs and the HUDs to be a computer screen.

Other examples would include clothing icons, such as shirts, pants, skirts, dresses.

Another would be a house or plant for decor objects.

It may not seem like a big a deal, but I would argue this simple functionality for original creators of meshes and objects to 'label' their creations in a visual way would add a lot to the inventory management system that at present is very clunky and difficult to keep organized except by extensive inventory management, even as a non-creator user.

Thanks for your consideration!