hehe, this is great, I was just (2 days ago) playing with a similar problem in a web app form: browsing books in the foreign literature section of a Portuguese bookstore!
My (less serious) ultimate goal is a universal sock pairing app: never fold your socks together again, just dump them in the drawer and ask the phone to find a match when you need them!
This seems more like a visual segmentation problem though and segmentation has failed me so far.
I employ a different strategy: I own 25 pairs of the same gray socks (gray was chosen so that it matches most outfits) and I just wear those all the time. Obviously I do own other socks (for suits etc.) but it has cumulatively saved me hours of sock searching.
Yes, I tried to employ this same strategy, but maybe it's because of my ADD or something, but I never manage to buy the same bulk socks, and eventually I run out and try to buy another bulk of socks which starts to get mixed with the last ones.
I need a robot that can physically sort and organize absolutely everything in my living space.
I have ideas for different strategies, but I am never able to actually implement those, so it ends up that I panic search for good pair of socks when there's an important event or just any scenario where someone would see me in socks and it would be good if socks looked similar enough.
I'd prefer an app that can find the missing socks for all the singletons that emerge from each load of laundry. We'll probably have to wait for a super AGI though.
My (less serious) ultimate goal is a universal sock pairing app: never fold your socks together again, just dump them in the drawer and ask the phone to find a match when you need them!
This seems more like a visual segmentation problem though and segmentation has failed me so far.