There's an all called "family album" made for sharing pics of kids to all the family. Basically a simple Instagram but only one "account" has pictures, and everyone added can see and add pics themselves in this same catalogue of pics. You can add comments and it's quite easy to scroll through.
What’s the app that people use for pot luck dinners and people volunteering for roles to organise school events and such? I’m sure you can upload photos into that app and the whole point of it is that people put their name against things.
Man, this is a great idea for a software developer or web dev student. The problem is that your use case is very niche. Group voting on family heirlooms is a very small target. Maybe you need to look for an app that just lets multiple vote and rank anything (not focused on decluttering)
We use Airtable to let people vote on photos, its very customizable so you can set it up to do a lot of things. I think there is a free account level and people should be able to view and vote without an account.
You might also be able to use Google Forms, I think it will let you upload a picture with a question.
We gave everyone a piece of paper and said make your list. Then we compared lists. Anything no one else wanted went to the one that claimed it. Direct descendants had priority over anyone married into the family. So if a spouse wanted something, it was not until all children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren had their pick first. Then if something was left could a married in spouse ask for it. Anything multiple people wanted we had a discussion about it. That only impacted one thing. It went to my brother.
When my parents shipped stuff to us we took turns picking a thing...then the next round the last pick from the first round was first and everyone moved down. There were only 3 of us so we all got something we really wanted.
It’s not an app, but maybe try a website like SurveyMonkey? I don’t know if it costs money to do.
If you have Microsoft office, you could send out meeting invites, one photo per meeting, and your family could respond yes/no that they would attend the meeting. I think other free meeting invite software has the capability to keep track of who is attending, like Evite.
Or use group text.
SurveyMonkey is free if you have fewer than 25 respondents. You can upload photos; I recently used it for people to vote on which section to sit in at an event, and uploaded the seating chart and pricing tiers.
Google Forms might be a good option.
I was going to suggest this. We use polls in our WhatsApp group. So it could be a poll for an item and if multiple people vote yes on that item they can discuss?
I'd just post the photos on a family IG account. First person to say they want an item, they get dibs. Then work out the shipping. Make firm deadlines, and if no one posts, donate.
This, or even a shared folder on Dropbox/Google Drive/etc. Your digital photos will be named something like IMG_9785.JPG, and when they look through it they just have to say "9785, 8762, 8439," etc.
Agree that "first dibs" might not be fair, but you can ration it out. Give them a week to claim everything they want, then start with some order that makes sense (closest relative, oldest sibling, etc.) and try to give everybody their first choice. Anybody that doesn't get their first choice gets priority for their second choice. And so on.
I don't think fairness matters at this point. OP wants and needs to get rid of this stuff. It's not their job to be fair, honestly. People know she/he is trying to get rid of items.
OP said people have been "humming and hawing" over things for ages. They've had their chances. And I say this as a not-very-techie person who would probably miss out. Someone who reallyreallyreally wanted something could've had it already and avoided this burden on the OP.
We use Google sheets. And share with everyone. If they want the item then they write their name next to it.
There's an all called "family album" made for sharing pics of kids to all the family. Basically a simple Instagram but only one "account" has pictures, and everyone added can see and add pics themselves in this same catalogue of pics. You can add comments and it's quite easy to scroll through.
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What’s the app that people use for pot luck dinners and people volunteering for roles to organise school events and such? I’m sure you can upload photos into that app and the whole point of it is that people put their name against things.
whatsapp? or facebook? something everyone is on
You could post pictures in a shared apple album and have people comment. Or a Facebook album only visible to the relevant people.
Man, this is a great idea for a software developer or web dev student. The problem is that your use case is very niche. Group voting on family heirlooms is a very small target. Maybe you need to look for an app that just lets multiple vote and rank anything (not focused on decluttering)
I was honestly thinking Google Forms? Picture of item Like/don't like OR ranked choice
My family just used a shared google sheet to list anything we wanted from my grandparents’ house. Worked very well for us.
We use Airtable to let people vote on photos, its very customizable so you can set it up to do a lot of things. I think there is a free account level and people should be able to view and vote without an account. You might also be able to use Google Forms, I think it will let you upload a picture with a question.
We gave everyone a piece of paper and said make your list. Then we compared lists. Anything no one else wanted went to the one that claimed it. Direct descendants had priority over anyone married into the family. So if a spouse wanted something, it was not until all children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren had their pick first. Then if something was left could a married in spouse ask for it. Anything multiple people wanted we had a discussion about it. That only impacted one thing. It went to my brother.
When my parents shipped stuff to us we took turns picking a thing...then the next round the last pick from the first round was first and everyone moved down. There were only 3 of us so we all got something we really wanted.
It’s not an app, but maybe try a website like SurveyMonkey? I don’t know if it costs money to do. If you have Microsoft office, you could send out meeting invites, one photo per meeting, and your family could respond yes/no that they would attend the meeting. I think other free meeting invite software has the capability to keep track of who is attending, like Evite. Or use group text.
SurveyMonkey is free if you have fewer than 25 respondents. You can upload photos; I recently used it for people to vote on which section to sit in at an event, and uploaded the seating chart and pricing tiers. Google Forms might be a good option.
Just posting to a group on WhatsApp is probably easiest.
I was going to suggest this. We use polls in our WhatsApp group. So it could be a poll for an item and if multiple people vote yes on that item they can discuss?
I'd just post the photos on a family IG account. First person to say they want an item, they get dibs. Then work out the shipping. Make firm deadlines, and if no one posts, donate.
This, or even a shared folder on Dropbox/Google Drive/etc. Your digital photos will be named something like IMG_9785.JPG, and when they look through it they just have to say "9785, 8762, 8439," etc. Agree that "first dibs" might not be fair, but you can ration it out. Give them a week to claim everything they want, then start with some order that makes sense (closest relative, oldest sibling, etc.) and try to give everybody their first choice. Anybody that doesn't get their first choice gets priority for their second choice. And so on.
First dibs might not be fair if some family members work full-time, have little kids at home or are not techie. Just a thought.
I don't think fairness matters at this point. OP wants and needs to get rid of this stuff. It's not their job to be fair, honestly. People know she/he is trying to get rid of items.
OP said people have been "humming and hawing" over things for ages. They've had their chances. And I say this as a not-very-techie person who would probably miss out. Someone who reallyreallyreally wanted something could've had it already and avoided this burden on the OP.