Gentle Sort / Features

Settle, pack and store

See which items more than one person wants, agree on each one, and keep track of where everything goes after that.

See the overlaps early

Items wanted by more than one person are listed together, with everyone’s memories beside them. You know about the hard conversations at the start, not on moving day.

The person running the estate also gets a table of who wants what across the whole house.

Shared items, each wanted by more than one family member (example estate)

Agree on each shared item

For every shared item, each person says how they’d like to settle it:

  • Talk it through as a family
  • Explain why it matters to you, in writing
  • Toss a coin, with a fair, checkable flip
  • Let it go to someone it means more to

Whatever you decide is recorded, along with who changed what and when.

Choosing how to settle a shared item (example estate)

Know what’s in every box

Pack items into numbered boxes and print a QR label for each one. Scan the label with any phone camera to see what’s inside, with a photo of each piece, without opening the box. The contents are written into the code as well, so it still works in a storage unit with no signal.

  • Find anything. Search “silver” or “teapot” and see which box it’s in and where that box is, down to the unit and shelf.
  • Sorted by place. Boxes are grouped by storage unit, garage or house, in the order you’d walk past them.
  • Checks. Go through a box against its list, note anything missing, and mark it found when it turns up.
  • Labels print on a full sheet or a label roll. You can compare storage unit quotes and note which boxes have a tracker inside.
Boxes and storage, grouped by place, with owners and values (example estate)

Keep a copy of everything

Download a spreadsheet of every item, its value, who wanted it and who it went to. Send it to the attorney, the accountant or the appraiser, and keep it as the family’s record of how the house was divided.

Next: estate documents

PDF reports for the appraiser, the attorney and closing the estate.

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