On: There’s magic in mess: Why you should embrace a di...

[vinay427]

I usually take a photo of documents that there's a small chance I would need in the future. This way, they take up a very small amount of space on my phone but in case I need something again the photo will usually be sufficient and I can search by date to find it.

[thedevil → vinay427]

I do something similar: put in a pile and about once a month I scan the pile (I bought a printer with a paper-feed just for this), upload it to cloud storage, and date it.

[amelius → thedevil]

The only step missing is OCR, so you can search on contents.

[ktta → amelius]

If you're using google drive, it automatically does OCR for you. So you just search for 'statement' and your bank statements show up.

I didn't know to be alarmed or happy when I first saw that feature.

I'm not sure it's an official feature, but it works for photos which are about a week old.

[Chris2048 → thedevil]

What printer do you use?

Only prob I have is some places insist on original docs :-/