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I'll give you an example of how the process could be valuable even without the information. A huge amount of doing something is just getting over the initiating energy to start doing something. A trick to help with that is to start with a really low cost task. The point isn't the task, it is that you started which gets you into 'keep doing things' mode. The dots may act as a low cost task and help to get passed the initiating energy. I think there are other things that this could help too. This is a task, although simple, that can help define the phases of projects which could help planning and execution success. This is all just guessing, I'm not a psychologist, but I think there are potentially ways that this is helpful beyond just the data it presents which is a good thing.

by QuantumNomad_11 hours ago|

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> Clothes? maybe RFID patches that are unobtrusive.

Decathlon and Zara both have RFID tags in their products.

https://sustainability.decathlon.com/product-traceability-an... (Decathlon)

https://www.inditex.com/itxcomweb/so/en/press/news-detail/7f... (Inditex is the parent company of Zara. Link is a press release from 2014.)

So if one were to buy all their clothes at Decathlon (clothes for sports and other outdoor activities) and Zara (everyday wear as well as fancier clothing), and found a reader that can read the RFID tags they use, one would save the time needed to add RFID tags to one’s clothes ;)

There might be other stores that have RFID tags on all of their products too. I only mention these two in particular because I have purchased products from both of them using their RFID-based self-checkout in their stores and thus seen it first-hand.

However, I am not sure if all of the products have the RFID label embedded in the actual fabric or if some or most have the RFID label attached to paper labels that you’d remove before using the clothes. So that would also need to be determined before deciding to replace one’s whole wardrobe with clothes exclusively from these stores.

by hencq7 hours ago|

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A friend of mine used to once a year hang all his shirts with the open end of the cloth hangers' hooks facing forward. After wearing and washing them he'd hang them back with the hanger facing the other way. After a year he'd toss out any shirts that were still facing the original way and had thus not been worn.

by ghaff12 minutes ago|

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I’ve gotten rid of a lot of clothing in the past 18 months. I bring a very limited amount of specific clothing around the house, local hikes, the theater now and then etc. I just have no use for a lot of the to the office clothing I wore into the office every day.

by kbaker10 hours ago|

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Almost all retail RFID tags are on hanging labels, like with the price, or a sticker on the item. Although I did find one inside a pillow once.

A huge number of items at Walmart, Kohls, Target, Academy, Old Navy, and many other stores now (those are just the ones I've seen in store.)

Look for the 'EPC' logo, GS1 is the same standards body that controls the UPC barcode numbering.

https://www.gs1.org/standards/rfid/guidelines

Though - you don't want to use those types for this application, they are too long distance / not selective enough, and the readers are expensive.

Buy a big pack of NFC stickers instead, or print up some QR codes.

by darkwater3 hours ago|

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> Almost all retail RFID tags are on hanging labels, like with the price, or a sticker on the item. Although I did find one inside a pillow once.

I would say that Decathlon stuff has the RFID inside the internal labels (the ones that you should cut off if you don't want them to scratch your skin but sometimes you don't notice them)