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News, insights, and stories from the Odeumate team.

May 21, 2026

The Hidden Programming Job in Your Inventory Spreadsheet

A spreadsheet can track your theatre inventory just fine, until the formulas quietly turn you into a part-time programmer. A look at where Excel costs people hours, and what to do about it.

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May 12, 2026

Your Production Calendar, Now in Your Inventory System

Connect your Microsoft 365 calendar to Odeumate in two clicks. Rehearsals, auditions, and rentals appear automatically, mapped to the right rooms, ready for inventory pulls.

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April 26, 2026

The Complete Guide to Organizing Your Theater Props

A practical, software-agnostic guide to building a real props inventory system: categories, storage hierarchy, photos, condition tracking, labels, and how to actually get it done with volunteers.

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April 19, 2026

What's Your Motivation? And Does It Matter?

A lesson from an acting coach about motivation, and why the same question, 'What problem are we actually solving?', is what shapes Odeumate.

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April 13, 2026

Desktop vs. Cloud for Theater Inventory: What You Need to Know

A 30-year IT veteran and cloud skeptic makes the case for why theater inventory is one place where cloud actually wins.

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April 7, 2026

Why Community Theaters Need More Than a Spreadsheet

Spreadsheets work until they don't. Here's how to tell when your theater has outgrown one, and what to do about it.

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April 1, 2026

Introducing Odeumate: Theatre Management Built by Theatre People

We looked for theatre management software. It didn't exist. So we built it, shaped by a real theatre company from day one.

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