Move plans

A move plan turns your captured layout into a sequence of practical physical changes. Stowplan shows why it made each suggestion so you can reject advice that does not match the room in front of you.

Check readiness

Open Plan after the relevant spaces are mostly counted. Areas, Pins, and Generate move plan lead the setup. On a phone, tap the compact Planning readiness summary to inspect the evidence in a focused sheet. Readiness follows the selected areas and available placements, separating information required for a useful plan from details that improve confidence.

It may ask you to:

• finish an uncounted or in-progress space
• replace quick-capture defaults with a more useful item detail
• describe whether a destination is suitable
• add measurements when physical fit is uncertain

Each prompt opens the relevant Capture, Inventory, or Spaces editor. Measurements remain optional when capacity is not the question.

Choose areas and pins

Areas starts with Whole workspace. Select a room, cabinet, drawer, or another space to limit the plan to that space and its nested contents. Select several areas to allow moves between them. Selected areas appear highlighted; nested spaces say Included with parent. Search by name, path, or physical code. Clear areas lets you start again, and generation stays unavailable until an area is included.

Pins keeps settled placements in place for the plan. Switch between Items and Spaces, search, then check what should stay put. A pinned space keeps itself and all its contents in place and receives no planned additions. A pinned item also prevents its surrounding container from carrying it elsewhere. Pins outside the chosen areas remain available if you widen the scope. Clear pins removes all pins.

These choices apply to planning; manual organizing remains available. The generated plan retains its areas and pins, shows a compact summary, and restores those choices when you return to Plan. Plan options lets you adjust them before replacing a plan. Changing a setup choice does not alter the active plan until you generate its replacement. If nothing beneficial fits your choices, review areas, pins, or priorities. Items that stay put still occupy capacity and can attract related items.

Generate and review

Generate a plan to move directly to a focused Next move card. When you return to Plan, the active plan's next physical move appears before plan priorities and readiness guidance. Its source, destination, amount, and Mark moved action stay visible. On a phone, the route emphasizes the two physical endpoints; open Why this move and review details to see their full hierarchy paths, the reasoning, and links to the underlying records. Review full plan, planning readiness, and active Plan options open in focused sheets instead of lengthening the page.

Stowplan considers:

• rules that make a destination unsuitable
• measured capacity when both sides have compatible measurements
• items that should stay together
• easier access for frequently used things
• physical distance
• whether moving one nested container avoids many item-by-item moves

Missing measurements are shown as unverified capacity, not as proof that an item fits or does not fit.

Work through the steps

Complete plan steps in order because an earlier move may free space needed by the next one. After Mark moved, the same focused card advances to the next physical action.

Before completing a step, check the named source, destination, and amount against the physical item or container. If the saved workspace has changed since the plan was made, Stowplan stops and asks for review instead of moving a different record.

Use the item, container, and destination links inside the details disclosure to inspect the evidence without completing the step.

Change your mind

Plans are suggestions, not instructions you must obey. Make a manual move, adjust the priorities, discard the plan, or generate a fresh one after substantial edits.

Completed plan steps are ordinary workspace changes. Review or undo them from Activity when the physical result differs from the plan.