The structure/organization of the input is user friendly and focuses me on what’s important.

The date input is not very user friendly though.

Couple of other things:

Be as thorough as possible on the first pass of your things: try to get maker, model, serial number, manufacture date. This is req’d by the software and makes getting current replacement costs/price estimates (w/o receipts) easier when online.

Focus on the big things first: electronics, major pieces of furniture, appliances. Generally these are worth more, easier to inventory, and gets you started.

The Internet is invaluable in getting current esimates. However, these prices may be lower than store/retail (ie don’t shortchange yourself).

Consider supplementing the inventory with a video walkthrough of your residence and burn all onto a CD rom and give the CD to a relative (keep offsite).

Document the methodology used to estimate prices in the description section in the info/setup and the mo/yr this was done.

All in all, a great tool.