✨ Feature Requests

Provide a way for residents to back up important aspects of their inventory as a fallback / failsafe to recover in case of inventory loses. In addition, provide an offline archive and respository to make it easy to prune older inventory items, but recover and activate them at a future date. Essential feature: retain folder structures correctly throughout. (The boxing technique for storing items long term does not retain folder structures, making it effectively useless). You could provide both features as perks for Premium membership. You could charge for larger archives or backups, as a way of funding these features.

Hear me out. If cowork can organise years and years of harddrive mess, identify and remove duplicate items, then there MUST be a way to do it for inventory items. Seriously, I would pay real money to have a LL approved and trained ai get in there and do some heavy cleaning. Think of all the storage space you could save, LL. And all the user time saved when people can find their stuff. If it was a LL initiated tool, it would be able to know things not necessarily available to users - like object creator without having to rez it first. It could know categories of things and what percentage of users delete a freebie set from 2008. If the helper ai was presented as another avatar you could talk to, it could just ask intelligent questions like, do you want all the freebies you gathered at the newbies hubs? If not easy clean, or simply moving it all into a "pre trash" folder so the user can have a look at it before the final chuck. And have it read all the notecards, figure out if there is anything important, if so categorize and if not pre or trash it. The ai could ask, you have ten years with of grid affairs notecards those are all in the past, keep and organise or delete? If this could all happen in a private space where the ai could assist with the identification and outcome for the 1000 things called object in your inventory by doing a quick rez, you give it the thumbs down, gone. Thumbs up initiated a rename where possible and it's pushed into the new organisation structure. The user would have feedback in the proposed organisation so that they can actually figure out what is what after. This last thing would require user interactions but if the ai is presented as an Avi it amounts to body doubling and more people might get further in the process than they do now 'just trying to get organised ' EVEN just some fundamental help could help, this could be billed as a one off service, or perhaps a once per year included at the highest tier. I hope this doesn't seem too far out there, because currently available tech COULD do this, it would just need the right access and implementation.

It would be useful to be able to show duplicates in our inventory. I end up with so many LMs or sometimes even items and they add bulk to my inventory. It would be nice to be able to see all duplicates so the excess can be easily deleted.

Since BOM items are basically graphics, just handled differently to be worn, it would be helpful (and save a heck of a lot of time) to be able to preview before wearing. A lot of creators do not provide images in their packaging, so being able to see what it is without having to put it on/take it off/go on to the next item...would be awesome. If creators are worried that people would rip their work, you could put a big "preview" text across the pop-up template to discourage people from simply taking screenshots to copy the items. Just an idea...

You can search for one keyword or exact name of items but what if you can’t remember item name? Multiple key word filtering would be great for searching through a big inventory.

I know you can do by # of days, but it would be helpful to search by year. Especially, being a resident for 15+ years, this would make deleting inventory so much easier.

The inventory window offers a simple option for filtering by date range (days) but does not display a date when an object was added or purchased. It would help if a timestamp was shown that indicates the appearance/creation (e.g. folder) in the inventory. Perhaps this column could also be made sortable (ascending / descending sorting). Similar to file browsers of operating systems.

Inventory sorting is an annoying but universal chore for any resident who wants to stay organized. When thinking about how I avoid the same issues in other file management systems, one of the biggest boons to keeping on top of data organization is being able to choose the location an incoming item is saved to. Imagine that, when an unpacker HUD sent you a folder, instead of simply hitting "accept", you had a new menu that let you select which folder it unpacked to. Right now, all new folders simply go into "Inventory", but what if you could tell it to put that folder into "Objects->Home->Furniture and Decor->Chairs and Sofas"? Your item would immediately be sorted directly into the place it belongs so you could find it later. You could then have that folder appear in a "recent places" list for easy access the next time you needed to unpack a similar item. Maybe you could also pin favorite folders, for instance "Body Parts->Cosmetics" could be pinned if you know you buy a lot of makeup layers and unpack to that location often. This could also be used to help creators keep their items more organized when working on new projects, as the same menu could be used for bulk, material, and mesh uploads. Being able to see "recent folders" and select your project folder would help immensely with keeping product related files together. This should be an option that could be toggled, either in the "accept/decline" or upload menu, or in inventory settings. Some people won't want to be pestered each time they acquire something new, but I know it would certainly help me, and many others as a major quality of life improvement.

I've a large amount of content that I'd like to have access to on my alt. Things like clothes, like vehicles and the sort. Having to rebuy these items can be costly, especially if I like to create different accounts for personas and the sort. We could solve this by allowing users to designate up to two (given the current 3 accounts/user restriction if memory serves) accounts to have access to a 'master' inventory, much like how the SL Library is accessible. That being said, I can hear the lamentations of creators and the sort already, though let me posit this: To which percent of your sales are from people making alts? I doubt it's very many. And as for the legal and other concerns, I posit this: require residents report alts to Linden Lab, and make that a pre-requisite for being able to share inventory, along with having to agree that this service is for only the use of one legal person, and providing access to inventory to another person can be grounds for both accounts to be banned. I'm even for the idea of making this a premium feature. Furthermore, I'd suggest that 2FA be a prerequisite for alts accessing inventory unless access is in a NC/NM/NT configuration on 'guests'.

Someone (who shall remain unidentified) accidentally pressed a wrong button and managed to return an entire parcel full of objects. (how many times has this happened to you?) Normally, one could just right click the chunk of returned objects and do "Restore to Last Postion" to get them back. EXCEPT!!! "Restore to Last Position" does not work on no-copy items, for obvious safety reasons. Also, having even ONE no-copy item in a batch of coalesced objects makes the WHOLE thing no-copy. (at least until one finds a safe spot to rez everything and sort it all out.) All this heartache could be avoided if no-copy items were returned individually, separate from the coalesced pile of copyable objects. Either one by one, or in their own non-copyable chunk.