These days there is a gold-standard tick-list: a house behind a gate (Belgravia for Italians, Chelsea for Russians), a Gerhard Richter for the wall, the kids in one of a handful of schools, the right portfolio of charities, a place in the country not too far from London.

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Once you have your list, use the app to tick off things as you pack them, or e-mail the list to other family members.

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If you like some genres more than others then use the tick select boxes in the list below, and finally hone in on the era the pleases your ears using the date slider above.

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The truth of our over-informed lives is we have to tick to-dos off our list as we progress through the day.

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