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Imagine a 1990s batch flow system :)

I have a Fujitsu ScanSnap S1500, I scan through that... it auto names my post based on timestamp and drops it into a folder.

I rename it how I want to file it within my "Files" folder in Google Drive but leaving the datestamp intact, i.e. "2016-05-03T07:13:01 Finance - HMRC - P60.pdf" and I move it into another folder.

A cron comes along, looks at everything in that folder, fires a little Go util that uploads it to Google Drive (splitting " - " into subfolders), and finishes off by adding it as a calendar ever.

This would be a lot easier on Windows or Mac as I think you have Google Drive clients that sync whereas on Linux this doesn't exist.

I thankfully don't receive a lot of post, but when I do it's only 30 seconds to scan something and a few seconds to rename and move into another folder.




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