Using iPhoto to document items

I have a lot of "stuff", including many different cables...I'd like to put them, in an orderly way, into boxes that can be stored after having taken pics of them so that I'd know what box contained what when I wanted to find them again (in addition to helping for insurance purposes). If anyone has used iPhoto for this purpose, could you make some suggestions as to how best to accomplish this? Thanks

GRS wrote:
thanks for the suggestion.....i was just trying to figure out "what" topic I should use. I guess "event" is as good as anything. I didn't intend to print them out but just store them on a drive or even print it to a dvd.....
Oh I see. I thought you wanted a way to make prints of a box's contents so you could actually tape/paste the photo right on the outside of the box. That way you would know what is in the box by looking at the photo rather than having to open it.
Instead you meant you want a photo of the contents just as documentation rather than as an actual box label.
But yes, you could name an event and keep transferring the new photos into iPhoto to that specific event. Alternatively, if you didn't care that they got spread around to various events, you could keyword them as you import them so that you can easily find them all by keyword or create a smart album to be all photos with those keywords.
Or both.
Patrick

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