After I stopped using Delicious Library, I needed something to manage my collectables (music, books, memorabilia, etc). I wanted it online and integrated with platforms like Discogs for music.

Over the past few weeks, I put together the basics in the evenings. Since music is my most extensive collection, first up was syncing with and pulling metadata and images from Discogs. I still need to add uploading custom images, searching, filtering and sorting.

But it works, and it looks good (to me).

I wanted something with more personality than the flat interfaces that are everywhere these days. I feel that this strikes a good balance between a clean UI and something fun to use (just skeuomorphic enough).

Now that the foundations are there, I can add features for the other item types, a dashboard showing how much money I’ve wasted spent and where everything’s from and, down the line, look at refactoring the data structures.

But before doing that, I must load and clean up my collection.