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App for plant collection details?

Can anyone recommend an app (or something!) that I could use to keep track of my succulent collection.
At present I just have them listed on a database but this is really just a list of plants and when and where I got them.
Ideally I would like one that could show various pictures of the plants progress, when re-potted etc.
Rather like a card index system.
Preferably able to use offline (and free!).
At present I just have them listed on a database but this is really just a list of plants and when and where I got them.
Ideally I would like one that could show various pictures of the plants progress, when re-potted etc.
Rather like a card index system.
Preferably able to use offline (and free!).
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I just tried a QR code generator, and could generate something like Rosa Rugosa 2023 inside. And my phone could read that QR code as if by magic. Whether it would pick it up as a label hanging off a plant or on the side is anyone's guess. But perhaps there's something here worth considering. I'm probably over thinking it, and you could just label it aa, ab, ac and have an index or something in your database.
I'm just wondering if a note app like Evernote might be enough? It depends how to want to interrogate your database - if just basic searching is enough, then there are all kinds of notes and fields you can use in Evernote (not sure which ones are available in the free version) and it can be used offline too.
I am really surprised that there seems to be no 'off the shelf ' app for keeping track of plants.
A simple digital card index type of thing I would have thought easy.
Just a list in which you click on a name and you have a page with all the details and photos.
I have tried adapting Evernote, Google Keep etc.but never get what I actually want!.
Will keep on looking for now 😐
There seems to be apps for just about anything but not a simple one to record a collection.
A bit time consuming at first.
Used a table to write info (this table can be added to).
Photos were a bit of a faff.Used Snapseed to add text to the photo and crop etc.
I put each document in a file on my PC (and Dropbox)
If I catalogue just a few plants a day or when I have time should be OK.