Eight fields. The Location field is the one that saves the morning of departure — not checking off items, but knowing where in the house to find them before the checking starts.
The Location field — Bedroom, Bathroom, Entry closet, Basement, Garage — is the retrieval map. The travel adapter that lives in the basement box with the camping gear doesn't get forgotten because the item record says Basement. The compression socks that live in the entry closet with the luggage don't get searched for in the bedroom drawer. The Location field turns a packing list from a checklist into an assembly workflow.
What the Record Contains
Packed boolean is the first field — the visible toggle that confirms each item has moved from its stored location into its designated bag. Filtering for Packed: false during the final pass shows what remains without scanning the full list.
Luggage assignment — Carry-on, Purse, Suitcase — distributes items across bags at the planning stage rather than the packing stage. Medications and valuables go to Carry-on. Heavy clothing to Suitcase. The filtering tells you immediately if your carry-on is overloaded relative to the 7kg allowance before you're at the airline counter arguing about it.
Travel type multichoice — Summer, Winter, Business, Vacation — is the master filter. A Business trip list filtered from the master database shows only the items tagged Business: the charger, the laptop cables, the business cards, the specific toiletry bag configuration that fits the hotel bathroom routine. The full list isn't visible — only the subset relevant to this specific travel type.
Quantity is the field that prevents packing errors on family travel: 3 shirts for a 5-day trip, 2 children's swimsuits, 4 pairs of school socks per child. Quantity set at planning time means unpacking checks whether the right count was actually packed, not just whether the category appeared.
Person linked to a contact record means filtering by family member shows what's already allocated, what's shared, and whose items aren't yet packed.