For Years I Built a Local Database for My Home. Now AI Is the Interface.

When I built my house, I started documenting everything: outlets, conduits, circuits, pipe runs. The kind of things you only look up once the drywall is up and can't see them anymore. Over time it grew: HVAC, vehicles, tools, appliances, even trees in the garden. I wrote a desktop app for it, and having that data came in handy often than I expected. But adding data was always the bottleneck. Open the app, navigate to the right room, pick categories, fill in fields. For something like "the dishwasher is a Bosch, bought in 2019" that workflow felt like overkill.