![]() How to scan a QR code on older Android phones You can also access the "Scan QR code" option by swiping down from the top of your screen to open the Quick Settings tray. On Samsung phones, which use their own technology for scanning QR codes, ensure that "Scan QR codes" is turned on in the Camera app’s settings. Go into your camera app’s settings and switch on Google Lens there. That will make it really easy to search for an item in the slides (ctrl+f for the win!) and know where that box is in the basement without having to dig through every box, or even scan every box.If nothing happens when you scan a QR code with your camera, you may need to activate Google Lens manually. In the future I’ll be adding a photo of the box, and a small map of the basement showing where the box is to the slides. If you have boxes behind other boxes I added links to the box in the back from the box in the front to make it easy to know what is there. Now you can scan the QR code on the front of the box (on iOS just turn on the camera app, point it at the box and then click the notification that drops down from the top) and be taken to a list of its contents. As I am typing this I am realizing you create a slide for every box you want, create QR codes for the links and then fill them in as you tape them on the box. You can print the code right now, cut it out and tape it to the box, or you can repeat these steps for a few boxes and print them in a batch. This is where you can do one of two things. The QR code will change on the right of the page! Click save and save the image off for printing. Select the option for URL and paste it in. Now, with the slide up on the screen you can copy the URL (from the URL bar of your browser, make sure you grab the whole thing), and head over to /. Title the slide with a name that makes sense, and then type out a list of all the things that are in it, to whatever granularity you want. Now that you have those things let’s get started.įirst, create a new slide in your presentation. Ok, so here are the things that you need to make this work. ![]() Slides also are a nice form factor for a list of items, and other information and can link back and forth to each other. This was crucial because the app doesn’t correctly navigate to a slide when you click a slide specific link in the browser. ![]() First, I didn’t have the app on my phone. Then a little more experimenting with the mobile apps, and the various offerings and I realized that Google Slides was the best option I had. For the briefest of moments I thought about creating something on my website to do it… then I remembered that we already use Google docs for all sorts of things, maybe they would work here. I knew that a QR code could point to a url, so I just needed some sort of hosting that would give me a unique url for parts of a document. Time being precious with a newborn in the house. I was really tempted to write my own app… but then I started thinking about how I could create a system without doing any programming and in a few minutes. Now, there are a bunch of solutions out there on the market that do this, but they all had subscriptions to use them. After not being able to find a few things we were pretty sure we still had I realized that there had to be a better way. Recently we had our second child, and that meant digging through a bunch of boxes in the basement to find leftover baby clothes and gear.
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